CERAMICA CH
CERAMICA CH is the national ceramic inventory of Switzerland.
aims
A rich ceramic tradition can be demonstrated in the collections of Swiss museums. This legacy of national and international importance is largely unknown not only to the general public, but also to experts. Most of it is no longer on display today or has never been published. The Ceramica Foundation in Basel therefore initiated the inventory project “CERAMICA CH” in 2009 with the aim of compiling a national inventory of the publicly accessible collections of modern vascular ceramics (1500–1950) in Switzerland.
Published canton inventories
Three canton inventories (Neuchâtel, Solothurn and Vaud) have been compiled and published so far.
- Roland Blaettler, Peter Ducret, Rudolf Schnyder: CERAMICA CH I: Neuchâtel. (= National inventory of ceramics in the public collections of Switzerland 1500–1950 ), Sulgen 2013.
- Roland Blaettler, Rudolf Schnyder: CERAMICA CH II: Solothurn. (= National inventory of ceramics in the public collections of Switzerland 1500–1950 ), Sulgen 2014.
- Roland Blaettler: CERAMICA CH III / 1: Vaud. (= National Inventory of Ceramics in Public Collections in Switzerland 1500–1950 ), Sulgen 2017.
CERAMICA CH - digital
The inventory is continued digitally. On December 1, 2019, the German and French-language, freely searchable homepage and image database CERAMICA-CH was launched , initially with 3400 data records. The printed inventories are also to be transferred to the image database by the end of 2020, and work is ongoing. The inventory of the Canton of Graubünden will run from 2018 to 2021. In spring 2020 at the latest, the first inventory results from Graubünden should also be available in the image database.