Pilgrim Bottle
manufacturer Meissen Porcelain Factory (German, est. c. 1710)
c. 1715
- Medium
- polished red stoneware, silver-gilt mounts
- Classification
- Ceramic
- Dimensions
- Overall: 15.9 x 9.6 cm (6 1/4 x 3 3/4 in.)
- Culture
- Germany, Meissen, 18th century
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art, Decorative Art and Design
- Credit line
- Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed
View at the Cleveland Museum of Art
About this work
Throughout the early 1700s porcelain was imported to Europe from China and Japan, until the correct formula to produce it was developed by Johann Friedrich Böttger and a collaborator, which led to the establishment of the Meissen factory in 1710. Red stoneware inspired by Chinese Yixing ware and white porcelain were produced in Meissen under Böttger. Its fine red stoneware was so hard that it could be polished on a lapidary’s wheel—as was the body of this bottle.
