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Pilgrim Bottle
Meissen Porcelain Factory (German, est. c. 1710)c. 1715
The Cleveland Museum of Art
Cleveland, United States
About 1708, as a by-product of his efforts to produce porcelain, Böttger developed a fine red stoneware, so hard that it could be polished on a lapidary's wheel--as was the body of this small bottle. Red stoneware was part of the usual production of the Meissen factory during its first decade.
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- Title: Pilgrim Bottle
- Creator: Meissen Porcelain Factory (German, est. c. 1710)
- Date Created: c. 1715
- Physical Dimensions: Overall: 15.9 x 9.6 cm (6 1/4 x 3 3/4 in.)
- Provenance: (Rosenberg and Stiebel, Inc., New York).
- Type: Ceramic
- Rights: CC0
- External Link: https://clevelandart.org/art/1951.451
- Medium: polished red stoneware, silver-gilt mounts
- Department: Decorative Art and Design
- Culture: Germany, Meissen, 18th century
- Credit Line: Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
- Collection: Decorative Arts
- Accession Number: 1951.451
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