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    1. 'White Gold' in Early to Mid-Eighteenth Century Venice and Florence - The first Italian Porcelain... 2015

      Tsoumas, Johannis

      Art Is On (Lisboa), Vol. 1, Issue 1, pp. 6 - 16.

      An inaccessible material both in terms of technology and manufacture for the aristocratic classes and the royal courts of Europe and especially for the prominent politically, socially and culturall... Read more

      An inaccessible material both in terms of technology and manufacture for the aristocratic classes and the royal courts of Europe and especially for the prominent politically, socially and culturally Italy, porcelain was until the beginning of the eighteenth century an ‘impossible dream’ which only through a limited number of Chinese wares could be satisfied. However in the early highly decorative and playful Rococo period, its discovery in Germany inaugurated a new era in the European decorative arts. Hard-paste porcelain was soon introduced in Northern Italy and started being produced in the cities of Venice and Florence respectively creating a new order in the great historical field of ceramic arts. This initiated a long and, at the same time, glorious era for porcelainobjects production throughout the country, many of which are now rare examples of a valuable heritage in the history of decorative arts worldwide. This paper aims to document clearly and methodically the historical value of these events, focusing on the two first Italian hard-paste porcelain factories development and stressing the significance of their rare products. Read less

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    2. 'White Gold' in Early to Mid-Eighteenth Century Venice and Florence - The first Italian Porcelain... 2022

      Tsoumas, Johannis

      Art Is On (Lisboa), Issue 1.

      An inaccessible material both in terms of technology and manufacture for the aristocratic classes and the royal courts of Europe and especially for the prominent politically, socially and culturall... Read more

      An inaccessible material both in terms of technology and manufacture for the aristocratic classes and the royal courts of Europe and especially for the prominent politically, socially and culturally Italy, porcelain was until the beginning of the eighteenth century an ‘impossible dream’ which only through a limited number of Chinese wares could be satisfied. However in the early highly decorative and playful Rococo period, its discovery in Germany inaugurated a new era in the European decorative arts. Hard-paste porcelain was soon introduced in Northern Italy and started being produced in the cities of Venice and Florence respectively creating a new order in the great historical field of ceramic arts. This initiated a long and, at the same time, glorious era for porcelainobjects production throughout the country, many of which are now rare examples of a valuable heritage in the history of decorative arts worldwide. This paper aims to document clearly and methodically the historical value of these events, focusing on the two first Italian hard-paste porcelain factories development and stressing the significance of their rare products. Read less

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    3. Rheological behaviour and mechanical properties of porcelain stoneware bodies containing Italian... 2009

      Andreola, F.; Siligardi, C.; Manfredini, T.; Carbonchi, C.

      Ceramics International, Vol. 35, Issue 3, pp. 1159 - 1164.

      This paper presents the results obtained by replacing German and Ukrainian clays in a porcelain stoneware body with a clay from Sardinia island, Italy, added with 10 wt% of different bentonites ava... Read more

      This paper presents the results obtained by replacing German and Ukrainian clays in a porcelain stoneware body with a clay from Sardinia island, Italy, added with 10 wt% of different bentonites available on Italian territory in order to lower the body costs. Two series of bodies were prepared: a first series by substituting completely German clay and partially Ukrainian clay (5 wt%) and a second series by substituting completely the Ukraine clay. Rheological measures were carried out on the suspensions prepared in order to verify the effect of the bentonites presence on the shear and time dependence. The fired specimens were characterized across the technological parameters (water absorption, linear shrinkage, etc.), mechanical and aesthetical properties and compared with a standard/industrial composition. Read less

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