American porcelain, 1770-1920 Alice Cooney Frelinghuysen

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Frelinghuysen, Alice Cooney, author.

Contributor:

Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)

Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.). Department of Decorative Arts, repository.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.). Department of Decorative Arts--Exhibitions.

Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.).

Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.). Department of Decorative Arts.

Porcelain, American--Exhibitions.

Porcelain, American.

Genre:

Exhibition catalogs

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xv, 320 pages) illustrations (some color)

Distribution:

New York Distributed by Harry N. Abrams, Incorporated

Place of Publication:

New York The Metropolitan Museum of Art [1989]

System Details:

Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212

Summary:

"In the realm of ceramics, porcelain occupies a place of honor. Its manufacture, traceable for well over thirteen centuries in China and cultivated in the Orient, in Europe, and in England, has been the focus of scholarly and public attention for many generations. In America, however, the delicate medium has been overshadowed in importance by the stoneware and red earthenware made in rural potteries throughout the nineteenth century and, more recently, by the individuality of the objects produced as a part of the Arts and Crafts movement. The exhibition devoted to American Porcelain that this catalogue accompanies brings together a selection of treasures that spans a century and a half of native achievement and reflects the influence of concomitant historical, stylistic, and technological developments. Though the wares made at the major potting centers (the cities of New York, Trenton, Philadelphia, and East Liverpool) are the primary theme, objects from other regions today virtually unknown are also presented. American Porcelain: 1770-1920, both as an exhibition and publication, is a whollly appropriate exemplification of The Metropolitan Museum of Art's prevailing concern for the display and study of the finest examples of American decorative art. This ... catalogue, offering a new and comprehensive examination of American porcelain, belongs to a sizable and growing series of publications on all aspects of American art, which will inspire the reader not only to explore the field of American porcelain but go further into the other realms of American art"--From publisher's description

Notes:

"Published in conjunction with the exhibition ... held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, from 8 April 1989 until 25 June 1989"--Title page verso

Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-309) and index

Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010

Print version record

Other Format:

Print version Frelinghuysen, Alice Cooney. American porcelain, 1770-1920

ISBN:

0810918870

9780810918870

OCLC:

555697864