Pilgrim Bottle
Meissen Porcelain Factory · c. 1715 · Cleveland Museum of Art
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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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- Maker
- Meissen Porcelain Factory (German, est. c. 1710)
- Date
- c. 1715
- Medium
- polished red stoneware, silver-gilt mounts
- Dimensions
- Overall: 15.9 x 9.6 cm (6 1/4 x 3 3/4 in.)
- Place of origin
- Germany
- Held by
- Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland · On view · 216A French and German
- Credit line
- Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
