Der schöne Schein
deutsche Fayencekunst : die Sammlung des Museums für Angewandte Kunst Köln
Description:... Putting a "beautiful veneer" on things was a leitmotif of the Baroque era. In that age of ostentation, of splendor, exuberance and joie de vivre, faience took its place alongside silver in courtly and aristocratic dining rooms, but also in bourgeois homes starting in the mid-17th until well into the 18th century. It even made its way into table settings and étagères for official state functions. At first, faience - an earthenware with an opaque white tin glaze - served as a deceptively genuine-looking "replacement" for the highly coveted Chinese porcelain that had to be imported from overseas. Over the decades, however, European faience came into its own, resulting in many stunning pieces. 0Exhibition: Museum für Angewandte Kunst, Cologne, Germany (15.6.-29.9.2013). 0.
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