Rocailles base
A rocailles base is understood to be a base, usually a small sculpture, decorated with asymmetrically curved, shell-shaped and curly decorative elements, the so-called rocailles . It originated in the Rococo period and is typical of this style.
Rocailles plinths often form the base of porcelain figures from the period between the 30s and 70s of the 18th century and replace simpler predecessor forms such as the gingerbread base , whereby it often happened that an already existing, seemingly suitable figure model was still used and only through A new pedestal was adapted to the changing fashion.
Because of this, they can be used as a means of dating or determining origin. An example of this can be found in the work of Emil Heusser on the history of the porcelain factory founded by the Strasbourg faience and porcelain manufacturer Paul Hannong in Frankenthal in 1755, in which Heusser made the figures, now equipped with a rocailles base, as the work of the Frankenthalers, who provided them with a simple base describes partially identical figures as the work of the Strasbourg workshop.
Individual evidence
- ^ Hermann Bauer: Rocaille. On the origin and essence of a concept of ornament. (New Munich Contributions to Art History. Vol. 4), de Gruyter, Berlin 1962. p. 1
- ^ Ludwig Schnorr von Carolsfeld : Porcelain of the European factories , Richard Carl Schmitt, Berlin 1912, p. 84. online edition
- ^ 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. 87.