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Pilgrim Bottle

Meissen Porcelain FactoryLinkedCulture matchlcp-8f0221000226

Date: c. 1715
Medium: polished red stoneware, silver-gilt mounts
Culture: Germany, Meissen, 18th century
Department: Decorative Art and Design
Institution: Cleveland Museum of Art
Object ID: 128834

Throughout the early 1700s porcelain was imported to Europe from China and Japan, until the correct formula to produce it was developed by Johann Friedrich Böttger and a collaborator, which led to the establishment of the Meissen factory in 1710. Red stoneware inspired by Chinese Yixing ware and white porcelain were produced in Meissen under Böttger. Its fine red stoneware was so hard that it could be polished on a lapidary’s wheel—as was the body of this bottle.

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Credit line: Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
Provenance: ?–1951: (Rosenberg and Stiebel, Inc., New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) | 1951–: The Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH

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