Porcelain analysis and its role in the forensic attribution of ceramic specimens / Howell G.M. Edwards.
Edwards, Howell G. M., 1943-
2022
TP822
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Title Porcelain analysis and its role in the forensic attribution of ceramic specimens / Howell G.M. Edwards.
Author Edwards, Howell G. M., 1943-
ISBN 9783030809522 (electronic bk.)
3030809528 (electronic bk.)
9783030809515
303080951X
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-80952-2
Imprint Cham : Springer, [2022]
Language English
Description 1 online resource (585 pages)
Other Standard Identifiers 10.1007/978-3-030-80952-2 doi
Call Number TP822
Dewey Decimal Classification 620.1/46
Summary The material for this book arose from the authors research into porcelains over many years, as a collector in appreciation of their artistic beauty, as an analytical chemist in the scientific interrogation of their body paste, enamel pigments and glaze compositions, and as a ceramic historian in the assessment of their manufactory foundations and their correlation with available documentation relating to their recipes and formulations. A discussion of the role of analysis in the framework of a holistic assessment of artworks and specifically the composition of porcelain, namely hard paste, soft paste, phosphatic, bone china and magnesian, is followed by its growth from its beginnings in China to its importation into Europe in the 16th Century. A survey of European porcelain manufactories in the 17th and 18th Centuries is followed by a description of the raw materials, minerals and recipes for porcelain manufacture and details of the chemistry of the high temperature firing processes involved therein. The historical backgrounds to several important European factories are considered, highlighting the imperfections in the written record that have been perpetuated through the ages. The analytical chemical information derived from the interrogation of specimens, from fragments, shards or perfect finished items, is reviewed and operational protocols established for the identification of a factory output from the data presented. Several case studies are examined in detail across several porcelain manufactories to indicate the role adopted by modern analytical science, with information provided at the quantitative elemental oxide and qualitative molecular spectroscopic levels, where applicable. The attribution of a specimen to a particular factory is either supported thereby or in some cases a potential reassessment of an earlier attribution is indicated. Overall, the information provided by analytical chemical data is seen to be extremely useful for porcelain identification and for its potential attribution in the context of a holistic forensic evaluation of hitherto unknown porcelain exemplars of questionable factory origins.
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Chapter 1: Introduction
Setting the Scene: Analytical Data and Connoisseurship for Attribution in Art
Chapter 2 . Chinese Porcelains and Their Early European Competitors
Chapter 3. Establishing the Historical Baseline Chronology for European Porcelains
Chapter 4. Types of Porcelain and Their Elemental Oxide Compositions
Chapter 5 . Analytical Science and Case Studies
Chapter 6 . Case Studies I : Analytical Data Which Have Materially Contributed to the Attribution of Porcelain Specimens
Chapter 7 .Case Studies II : Analytical Data Which Have Revealed That Significant Revision is Required to Historical Knowledge of Porcelain Manufactories (Part A)
Chapter 8 . Case Studies III : Analytical Data Which Have Revealed That a Significant Revision is Required to Historical Knowledge of Porcelain Manufactories (Part B)
Chapter 9 . Case Studies IV : Challenges for Analytical Science
Chapter 10. Assessment of the Role of Chemical Analysis in the Holistic Attribution of Porcelains to Factory Sources, Their Characterisation and the Evaluation of their Chronology
Appendix I: Lady Charlotte Schreiber (1812-1895)
Appendix II : The Bearded Tulip : Who Was de Junic and Can Analysis Unravel the Mystery Surrounding this Artist?
Appendix III : Retailers of Porcelain A Source of Uncertainty for Analytical Attribution
Appendix IV : The Importance of Establishing the Correct Chronology for Factory Operations in a Holistic Forensic Analytical Approach. Example : The Swansea and Nantgarw Manufactories,1814-1820
Appendix V : Angela Georgina Burdett-Coutts, 1st Baroness
Appendix VI : American Porcelain Manufactories
Appendix VII :Curiosities in Ceramic Compositions Exposed by Chemical Analysis
Appendix VIII :Knowledge Transfer in the Age of Enlightenment
Appendix IX : Ancient Pigments Nomenclature Confusion : An Analytical Challenge
Selected Bibliography
Glossary
Index.

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