Pâte sur Pâte
Pâte sur Pâte ( French for "mass on mass") is a method of porcelain and earthenware decoration invented in China and introduced in the second half of the 19th century in the porcelain factories of Sèvres , Berlin and Meißen . The method, also known as slip painting, is used to create white, glossy and partially translucent reliefs in the form of figures and ornaments that stand out like a cameo from the colored background . To do this, thick, white porcelain mass is applied layer by layer to the wall of vessels or plates, the mass of which has already burned up but is still porous. During the fire, the applied mass melts, so that the colored background shimmers through.
Pâte-sur-Pâte painting was originally invented by Louis Robert in Sèvres, and a vase decorated in this way caused a sensation at the London World's Fair in 1851 . Sèvres and a little later also the Minton porcelain factory in Staffordshire / England brought this technique to bloom in the 1860s. In Meißen the invention succeeded in 1878, but it was not until the world exhibition in Chicago in 1893 that the Meißen porcelain manufactory was able to demonstrate its skills in this field to a broad public.
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literature
- Otto Walcha : Meissen porcelain. From the beginning to the present . 8th edition. Verlag der Kunst, Dresden 1986, ISBN 3-364-00012-3 .
- Bettina Schuster: Meissen. Stories about the past and present of Europe's oldest porcelain factory . Orbis Verlag, Munich 1996, ISBN 3-572-00811-5 .