Biscuit china

The threatening Cupid, according to Falconet , around 1760, Sevres manufacture

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As bisque unglazed fired is porcelain of high feldspar - and low quartz content referred. Because of the lack of glaze and reduced light reflection, it looks like Parian marble .

material

The bisque porcelain is a hard-paste porcelain . Like almost all porcelain , bisque is fired twice (from Latin to "twice" and French cuit "burned"). Occasionally, unglazed porcelains or earthenware that have been fired only once are incorrectly referred to as biscuits .

history

Biscuit porcelain was invented in 1753 by Jean-Jacques Bachelier in the factory in Vincennes Castle to make it easier to make figures. As a substitute for ivory , alabaster and marble , it spread to Sèvres and then quickly across Europe and was then successfully produced by many European manufacturers.

quality

Biscuit porcelain bust by Mark Antokolski

The delicacy of the modeling options and the soft, velvety appearance of the biscuit porcelains made them extremely popular, especially from the late 18th century until the end of classicism . Since the finest details can be formed with this porcelain mass (compact and pliable or liquid as a slip ) due to the lack of glaze and the surface like an epidermis only has a silky-matt sheen, biscuit porcelain was particularly valued for figurative works and small portrait busts or reliefs.

See also

Commons : bisque  - collection of images, videos, and audio files

• Classification of ceramic bodies
• List of porcelain manufacturers and manufacturers
• porcelain

Individual evidence

1. ↑ kpm-berlin.com: Care instructions ( Memento of the original from July 26, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
2. ^ Reclam's Handbook of Artistic Techniques. Vol. 3. P.125. Stuttgart 1986.
3. ↑ Beatrix Freifrau von Wolff Metternich, Manfred Meinz : The Porcelain Manufactory Fürstenberg . A cultural history in the mirror of Fürstenberg porcelain. Ed .: Richard Borek Foundation and Foundation Nord / LB. tape 2 . Prestel, Munich / Berlin / London / New York 2004, ISBN 3-7913-2921-9 , pp. 503 .
4. ↑ Ludwig Danckert: Handbook of European porcelain. P.64. (New edition) Munich 1992.
5. ↑ Friedrich H. Hofmann: The porcelain of the European manufactories . Propylaen KG. Sbd.1 p.154. Berlin 1980.