The World of Refinement: Du Paquier Porcelain in Everyday Court Life

Learn more about the exhibition "Imperial Privilege: Vienna Porcelain of Du Paquier, 1718 - 44" on view at The Metropolitan Museum of Art September 22, 2009 - March 21, 2010. http://tinyurl.com/yjmulcr

Listen to co-curators Jeffrey Munger and Meredith Chilton discuss the details of a delightful dessert table with culinary historian Ivan Day. http://tinyurl.com/yzrffny

Fired by Passion: Vienna Baroque Porcelain of Claudius Innocentius Du Paquier, the publication accompanying the exhibition, is available in The Met Store. http://tinyurl.com/ylxgqr9

Claudia Lehner-Jobst, an independent art historian and curator based in Vienna, walks through the daily routine of members of seventeenth-century nobility, highlighting the importance of porcelain objects. Beyond tableware, porcelain creations used by the nobility included religious devotional objects, clock cases, hand bells, toiletries (basins, mirror frames, perfume sets), and small containers such as perfume bottles or snuff boxes.

A one-day symposium gathered leading international scholars to discuss a variety of topics related to the exhibition "Imperial Privilege: Vienna Porcelain of Du Paquier, 1718 - 44." The second porcelain factory in Europe able to make true porcelain in the manner of the Chinese was established in Vienna in 1718. Founded by Claudius Innocentius Du Paquier, the small porcelain enterprise developed a highly distinctive style that remained baroque in inspiration throughout the history of the factory, which was taken over by the state in 1744. Du Paquier produced a range of tablewares, decorative vases, and small-scale sculpture that found great popularity with the Hapsburg court and the Austrian nobility. This exhibition charts the history of the development of the Du Paquier factory, setting its production within the historic and cultural context of Vienna in the first half of the eighteenth century. The porcelain featured is drawn from both the Metropolitan Museum and the premier private collection of this material.

The symposium and related exhibition are made possible by Eloise W. Martin and the Melinda and Paul Sullivan Foundation for the Decorative Arts.

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[NewTet]

Reminds me of an exhibition of teapots and other similar paraphernalia I saw at the Cooper-Hewitt in NYC back in 1983. Great stuff in this video, great lecture!

[janemadison]

Antique Perfume Bottles at

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