Ceramics museum

Ceramics museum
A Sèvres dinner-service on display at the Museo delle porcellane di Firenze.

A ceramics museum is a museum wholly or largely devoted to ceramics, normally ceramic art, whose collections may include glass and enamel as well, but will usually concentrate on pottery, including porcelain. Most national collections are in a more general museum covering all the arts, or just the decorative arts, but there are a number of specialized ceramics museums, some concentrating on the production of just one country, region or manufacturer. Others have international collections, which may concentrate on ceramics from Europe or East Asia, or have global coverage.

In Asian and Islamic countries ceramics are usually a strong feature of general and national museums.[citation needed] Also most specialist archaeological museums, in all countries, have large ceramics collections, as pottery is the commonest type of archaeological artifact.[citation needed] Most of these are broken shards however.

Outstanding major ceramics collections in general museums include The Palace Museum, Beijing, with 340,000 pieces,[1] and the National Palace Museum in Taipei city, Taiwan (25,000 pieces);[2] both are mostly derived from the Chinese Imperial collection, and are almost entirely of pieces from China. In London, the Victoria and Albert Museum (over 75,000 pieces, mostly after 1400 CE) and British Museum (mostly before 1400 CE) have very strong international collections. The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and Freer Gallery of Art in Washington DC (12,000, all East Asian[3]) have perhaps the best of the many fine collections in the large city museums of the United States. The Corning Museum of Glass, in Corning, New York, has more than 45,000 glass objects.

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Specialist museums

Porcelain miners at the Meissen Porcelain Museum
The Terracotta Army on display; view from visitor's gallery.
The Musée nationale de la porcelaine Adrien Dubouché in Limoges concentrates on the local Limoges porcelain.
The 19th century building (formerly the Egyptian embassy) of the Tehran National Glass and Ceramics Museum.
The State Ceramics Museum, Moscow: A dinner service presented by Napoleon to Alexander I of Russia upon signing the Treaties of Tilsit.
A bottle kiln at the Coalport China Museum.

Many of the historic ceramics manufacturers have museums at or very near their factories, sometimes owned by the company, sometimes independent institutions. Among the more important ones, with large collections, covered in the articles on the concern, are: Meissen porcelain,[4] Nymphenburg Porcelain Manufactory, Doccia porcelain, Royal Worcester,[5] Wedgwood (now independent),[6] Royal Crown Derby and Herend Porcelain.

Some other specialist ceramics museums are (number of pieces are approximate):

in Australia
in Canada
in China
in the Czech Republic
  • Museum of Czech Porcelain, Prague
in France[11]
in Germany
in Iran
in Italy
Japan
in South Korea
  • Gyeonggi Ceramic Museum, Gwanggju
  • Incheon World Ceramic Center,[23][24]
in the Netherlands
in Portugal
  • Museu de Cerâmica, Caldas da Rainha, Portuguese and other ceramics,
  • Museu de Cerâmica de Sacavém, Sacavém
in Russia
in Spain
  • Museu de Ceràmica, in the Museu de les Arts Aplicades, Barcelona
  • Museo Nacional de Cerámica y de las Artes Suntuarias González Martí, Valencia, with over 5,000 pieces, mostly produced in the region.[29]
in Taiwan
in Thailand
in Ukraine
in the United Kingdom
in the United States

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References

  • Peterson, Jan. The craft and art of clay: a complete potter's handbook, Laurence King Publishing, 2003, ISBN 1-85669-354-6, 9781856693547, Google books Listing of museum ceramics collections (heavily weighted to US) pp. 396–412

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