Gingerbread base

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As a gingerbread base shaped, plate-shaped simply base of china - or figurines made of faience called. The name is derived from the shape of the base, which is often roughly square and reminiscent of a gingerbread . Other names for this base shape are also earth base or grass base base .

The simplest form of decoration is painting with a green color and light black lines, which are supposed to be reminiscent of a meadow, decoration with modeled flowers, for example, offers richer decoration options.

origin

Historically, it is a very original form of the base for porcelain figures. The gingerbread base was quickly replaced by more differently shaped bases such as the Rocailles base , which corresponded more to the taste of the Rococo . For example, it can be used by art science when dating porcelain figures, as it was quite common to reuse an existing figure model and, if necessary, to keep it salable with a different base, which was perceived as more fashionable. Examples of this can be found in the figures of Frankenthal porcelain by Paul Hannong , who reissued existing models from his Strasbourg faience factory after founding his porcelain factory in Frankenthal in 1755, but now provided them with a rocailles base.

In the case of the figures from the workshops of the Hannong family , the base shape can also help determine the place of manufacture, since when the Frankenthal porcelain factory was set up, figures from Strasbourg were already painted and glazed in Frankenthal, but this is typical for the Strasbourg production site Retained gingerbread base.

literature

  • Friedrich H. Hofmann: The porcelain exhibition in the Bavarian National Museum. In: The Cicerone. Semi-monthly magazine for the interests of the art researcher and collector. Seemann, Leipzig, 1.1909, issue 17, pp. 527-538 and issue 18, pp. 555-566.
  • Emil Heusser: Porcelain from Strasbourg and Frankenthal in the 18th century. Facsimile of the first edition from 1922 by the Palatinate Publishing House, with an afterword by Franz Xaver Portenlänger. Edition PVA, Landau in der Pfalz 1988, ISBN 3-87629-146-1 , p. 88.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ludwig Schnorr von Carolsfeld: Porcelain of the European factories , volume 1 (=  library for art and antiques lovers , volume 4). 6th edition completely revised by Erich Köllmann. Klinkhardt & Biermann, Braunschweig 1974, p. 138 ( excerpt from Google Books ).
  2. ^ Emil Heusser (1922), p. 88.
  3. ↑ Hofmann (1909), p. 538.
  4. ^ Hofmann (1909). P. 538.
  5. ↑ Volker Brinkmann: The beginnings of Strasbourg / Frankenthal porcelain production and their brands. In: Edgar J. Hürkey (ed.): The art of making porcelain. Frankenthal porcelain 1755–1800. Exhibition to mark the founding of the factory 250 years ago, May 20–18. September 2005. Erkenbert Museum Frankenthal. Erkenbert-Museum, Frankenthal (Pfalz) 2005, ISBN 3-00-016178-3 , p. 42.