{"product_id":"le-secret-des-couleurs-ceramiques-de-chine-et-deurope-du-xviiie-siecle-a-nos-jours","title":"The Secret of Colors. Ceramics from China and Europe from the 18th Century to the Present Day.","description":"\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\n \u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAlthough our eyes have become accustomed to perceiving an infinite palette of colors displayed on all sorts of objects, from billboards to cartoons, including prints and photographs, this has not always been the case. In ceramics, as in cinema, color has been the subject of a quest, sometimes long and tedious, but often a source of unprecedented emulation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n \u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThis book tells the tumultuous story of this quest for color on porcelain in China and France. It proposes to compare two key moments in the history of porcelain characterized by the desire to extend the palette of enamels on porcelain: the turning points of the 18th \u003csup data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ecentury\u003c\/sup\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ecentury in China and the 19th \u003csup data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ecentury\u003c\/sup\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ecentury in France. A first section shows the development of opaque enamels on porcelain and copper in the 18th \u003csup data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ecentury\u003c\/sup\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ecentury through the very rich collection of imperial porcelain by Alfred Baur, the Canton enamels of the Zoubov Foundation and the export porcelains of the Ariana Museum (Geneva). The second part begins in France in the 19th \u003csup data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ecentury\u003c\/sup\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ecentury at the Sèvres factory and follows the journey of the various missions carried out in China to bring back color samples, analyze them chemically and imitate them; it ends with the experiments of the artist Fance Franck (1927-2008) on sacrificial red. Opening on the contemporary period, the last part of the book examines the work on color of the Austrian ceramist Thomas Bohle (born in 1958).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n \u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBilingual edition French \/ English.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Antinoë","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43539297108208,"sku":"25857","price":45.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0574\/4043\/6408\/products\/Secret-BAUR-3D.jpg?v=1665151392","url":"https:\/\/anttopinoe.com\/en-en\/products\/le-secret-des-couleurs-ceramiques-de-chine-et-deurope-du-xviiie-siecle-a-nos-jours","provider":"Antinoë","version":"1.0","type":"link"}