Ceramics museum

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A Sevres dinner-service on display at the Museo delle porcellane di Firenze. Museo delle porcellane di Firenze, secondo servizio di elisa baciocchi, sevres, 1809-1810 01.JPG
A Sèvres dinner-service on display at the Museo delle porcellane di Firenze.
The Gladstone Pottery Museum. GladstonePotteryMuseum(ValVannet)Jul2004.jpg
The Gladstone Pottery Museum.

A ceramics museum is a museum wholly or largely devoted to ceramics, usually ceramic art. Its collections may also include glass and enamel, but typically concentrate on pottery, including porcelain. Most national collections are in a more general museum covering all of the arts, or just the decorative arts. However, there are a number of specialized ceramics museums, with some focusing on the ceramics of just one country, region or manufacturer. Others have international collections, which may be centered on ceramics from Europe or East Asia or have a more global emphasis.

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Outstanding major ceramics collections in general museums include The Palace Museum, Beijing, with 340,000 pieces, [1] and the National Palace Museum in Taipei city, Taiwan (25,000 pieces); [2] both are mostly derived from the Chinese Imperial collection, and are almost entirely of pieces from China. In London, the Victoria and Albert Museum (over 75,000 pieces, mostly after 1400 CE) and British Museum (mostly before 1400 CE) have very strong international collections. The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and Freer Gallery of Art in Washington DC (12,000, all East Asian [3] ) have perhaps the best of the many fine collections in the large city museums of the United States. The Corning Museum of Glass, in Corning, New York, has more than 45,000 glass objects.

Many of the historic ceramics manufacturers have museums at or very near their factories, sometimes owned by the company, sometimes independent institutions. These usually mainly or entirely contain their own wares. Some of these are large and significant. Among the more important ones, with large collections, covered in the articles on the concern, are: Meissen porcelain, [4] Nymphenburg Porcelain Manufactory, Doccia porcelain, Royal Worcester, [5] Wedgwood (now independent), [6] Royal Crown Derby and Herend Porcelain.

Specialist museums

Porcelain miners at the Meissen Porcelain Museum Meissen-Porcelain-Saxon.Miners.JPG
Porcelain miners at the Meissen Porcelain Museum
The Terracotta Army on display; view from visitor's gallery. Xian museum.jpg
The Terracotta Army on display; view from visitor's gallery.
The Musee nationale de la porcelaine Adrien Dubouche in Limoges concentrates on the local Limoges porcelain. Musee Adrien Dubouche - collections.JPG
The Musée nationale de la porcelaine Adrien Dubouché in Limoges concentrates on the local Limoges porcelain.
The 19th-century building (formerly the Egyptian embassy) of the Tehran The Glassware and Ceramic Museum of Iran. Tehran - Glass ware and ceramics Museum.jpg
The 19th-century building (formerly the Egyptian embassy) of the Tehran The Glassware and Ceramic Museum of Iran.
The State Ceramics Museum, Moscow: A dinner service presented by Napoleon to Alexander I of Russia upon signing the Treaties of Tilsit. Sevres Egyptian Service.JPG
The State Ceramics Museum, Moscow: A dinner service presented by Napoleon to Alexander I of Russia upon signing the Treaties of Tilsit.
A bottle kiln at the Coalport China Museum. Kiln at Coalport China Museum.jpg
A bottle kiln at the Coalport China Museum.

Some specialist ceramics museums are (number of pieces are approximate):

Australia
Belgium
Brazil
Canada
China
Czech Republic
Denmark
France [15]
Germany
Iran
Italy
Japan
South Korea
The Netherlands
Portugal
Russia
Spain.
Switzerland
Sweden
Taiwan
Thailand
Ukraine
United Kingdom
United States

See also

Notes

  1. "ChinaCulture.org". Archived from the original on March 3, 2016.
  2. "National Palace Museum website".
  3. Peterson, 403
  4. "Porcelain Museum". Archived from the original on 2008-10-19. Retrieved 2009-05-05.
  5. "Museum of Royal Worcester".
  6. "The Wedgwood Museum − Home". www.wedgwoodmuseum.org.uk.
  7. "National Museum Of Australian Pottery - Visit the Museum". www.australianpottery.net.au.
  8. "Musée de la céramique |". www.ceramandenne.be.
  9. "Museu Udo Knoff de Azulejaria e Cerâmica" (in Portuguese). Diretoria de Museus do Estado da Bahia (DIMUS). 28 March 2012. Retrieved 2019-02-16.
  10. "Gardiner Museum website". Archived from the original on 2003-10-16. Retrieved 2009-05-03.
  11. "Medalta Website" . Retrieved 2019-03-12.
  12. "Beijing Mumingtang Ancient Porcelain Museum". www.china.org.cn.
  13. Tong, Qian (2020-06-30). "Purple clay teapot expert dies at age of 74". SHINE . Archived from the original on 2020-07-02. Retrieved 2020-07-10.
  14. Yixing Museum (no. 5) [ permanent dead link ]
  15. "Information on smaller French ceramics museums". Archived from the original on 2009-04-26. Retrieved 2009-05-03.
  16. "Musées de la ville de Rouen". www.rouen-musees.com. Archived from the original on March 17, 2004.
  17. "Limoges, France - National Porcelain museum". Archived from the original on 2007-11-03. Retrieved 2009-05-05.
  18. "Limoges Porcelain - [Musée national Adrien Dubouché]". Archived from the original on 2008-12-29. Retrieved 2009-05-05.
  19. "Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden - Museums". Archived from the original on 2007-10-19. Retrieved 2009-05-05.
  20. "City of Dresden - Tourism - Zwinger". Archived from the original on 2009-05-03. Retrieved 2009-05-05.
  21. "Dresden porcelain collection - Report from Europe - reopening of porcelain museum Zwinger in Dresden, Germany - Brief Article". Archived from the original on 2004-11-11.
  22. "300 Years of Porcelain in Dresden and Meißen". October 4, 2008.
  23. Hetjens-Museum Archived 2009-05-10 at the Wayback Machine website (in German)
  24. Lonely Planet Iran Guide
  25. "Museo della Ceramica di Savona". musa.savona.it.
  26. "Museo della Ceramica Giuseppe Gianetti". museogianetti.it.
  27. "Faenza museum website". Archived from the original on April 12, 2009.
  28. Daruma Magazine by Robert Yellin, (#40, Fall 2003)
  29. 클레이아크김해미술관. "클레이아크김해미술관 ::". clayarch.ghcf.or.kr (in Korean). Retrieved 2024-04-28.
  30. "경기도자미술관 | 경기도자미술관". www.gmocca.org (in Kanuri). Retrieved 2024-04-28.
  31. "경기생활도자미술관 | 경기도자미술관". www.gmocca.org (in Kanuri). Retrieved 2024-04-28.
  32. "Gyeonggi Ceramic Museum | KOCEF". kocef.or.kr. Retrieved 2024-04-28.
  33. "세창도예연구소". www.scceladon.co.kr. Retrieved 2024-04-28.
  34. "Princessehof museum website". Archived from the original on February 25, 2009.
  35. "Ceramics Museum Tienschuur |". www.tiendschuur.net.
  36. "КУСКОВО "Музей-усадьба «Кусково"". kuskovo.ru.
  37. "The State Hermitage Museum: Collection Highlights". Archived from the original on 2011-08-05. Retrieved 2011-08-09.
  38. "The State Hermitage Museum: Collection Highlights". Archived from the original on 2009-03-22. Retrieved 2009-05-05.
  39. "Valencia Museum website".[ permanent dead link ]
  40. "Musée Ariana". Musée Ariana. Retrieved 2022-10-03.
  41. "Värmdö kommun | Gustavsbergs Porslinsmuseum". Archived from the original on 2013-11-14. Retrieved 2013-12-06.
  42. "Historic and Ethnographic Monuments of Vinnytsya Region". 5 July 2014. Retrieved 5 March 2017.
  43. "American Museum of Ceramic Art" . Retrieved 12 July 2011.
  44. Peterson, 409

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