Technical Development of the Sevres Manufactory in the 19th century and Oriental Ceramic

2017 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 24520105
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Aesthetics/Art history
• Research Institution: University of Fukui
• Principal Investigator: IMAI Yuko 福井大学, 学術研究院教育・人文社会系部門(総合グローバル), 准教授 (00377467)
• Project Period (FY): 2012-04-01 – 2018-03-31
• Keywords: 美術史 / 陶磁史 / フランス文化史 / ジャポニスム / 日仏文化交流史 / 国際情報交換（フランス）

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This study reveals that in the 19th century, for the purpose of making highly decorated porcelain, the Sevres manufactory developed diverse techniques of decoration, paste (slip), colored glaze and pigment, taking Chinese porcelain of the Qing dynasty as a model, and increased the number of colors made by high temperature firing. In the 19th century, the greatest innovation of Sevres manufactory was the invention of new hard paste porcelain, fired at 1280 degrees same as Chinese porcelain and adapted to various colored glazes and pigments. The decorative technique called “pate-sur-pate” was also devised at this manufactory following Chinese porcelain, but in its Oriental taste for decorative patterns and motifs, Japanese sensitivity was preferred to that of China.

Free Research Field

人文学　哲学・美学・美術史