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The Porcelain Museum (Italian: ''Museo delle porcellane'') is located in the ''Casino del Cavaliere'', one of the highest points of the Boboli Gardens at the Pitti Palace in Florence, Italy.
The items on display, organized by manufacturer in the displays, include examples from the leading European producers.
Among the largest holdings on display are: the
File:Vincennes, contenitore, 1750-56.JPG, Vincennes porcelain, planter, 1750-56
File:Wedgewood, 1770 ca., vassoio con traforo e decoro floreale 01.JPG, Wedgwood creamware dish, c. 1770
File:Dagoty, tazzina, 1810 ca, 04.JPG, Cup by Dagoty, Paris, c. 1810
File:Doccia, servito con vedute di firenze, 1800-1850 ca., tazzina con piazza del duomo.JPG,
The Porcelain Museum (Italian: ''Museo delle porcellane'') is located in the ''Casino del Cavaliere'', one of the highest points of the Boboli Gardens at the Pitti Palace in Florence, Italy.
The items on display, organized by manufacturer in the displays, include examples from the leading European producers.
Among the largest holdings on display are: the Capodimonte porcelain
Capodimonte porcelain (sometimes "Capo di Monte") is porcelain created by the Capodimonte porcelain manufactory (''Real Fabbrica di Capodimonte''), which operated in Naples, Italy, between 1743 and 1759. Capodimonte is the most outstanding facto ...
of Naples; the Tuscan Doccia porcelain
The Doccia porcelain manufactory, at Doccia, a ''frazione'' of Sesto Fiorentino, near Florence, was in theory founded in 1735 by marchese Carlo Ginori near his villa, though it does not appear to have produced wares for sale until 1746. It has ...
from Sesto Fiorentino
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History
The oldest known human settlement in the area dates from the Mesolithic (c. 9,000 years ago) ...
; French manufacturers such as Sèvres and Vincennes; Vienna porcelain, largely collected by Ferdinand III of Tuscany; the German porcelain factory of Meissen
Meissen (in German orthography: ''Meißen'', ) is a town of approximately 30,000 about northwest of Dresden on both banks of the Elbe river in the Free State of Saxony, in eastern Germany. Meissen is the home of Meissen porcelain, the Albrecht ...
.
The museum is among the hundred most visited art museums in the world.
History
The museum, housed in the Villino del Cavaliere high in the Boboli Gardens, was opened in October 1973, after more than three years of research on the collections by Dr. Svend Eriksen (French Porcelain in particular) and Sheila K. Tabakoff who, under the auspices of a CRIA Grant, worked with Dr. Kirsten Piacenti, Director of the Museo degli Argenti, in realizing her dream for this collection. Numbering over 2000 pieces, the collection reflects the vicissitudes of the rulers of Florence over a period of some 250 years, from the last days of the Medici rule through the Unification of Italy. It comprises one of the most important historical collections of its kind in Europe. Over the years, various publications of parts of this collection have been produced, largely byCentro Di
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in Florence. Authors of these include Svend Eriksen, Sheila K. Tabakoff, Andreina d'Agliano and Tim Clarke, all noted ceramics scholars.
Gallery
Doccia porcelain
The Doccia porcelain manufactory, at Doccia, a ''frazione'' of Sesto Fiorentino, near Florence, was in theory founded in 1735 by marchese Carlo Ginori near his villa, though it does not appear to have produced wares for sale until 1746. It has ...
, service with views of Florence, early 19th-century
Image:Museo delle porcellane di Firenze, servizio di elisa baciocchi, sevres, 1809-1810 01.JPG, Sèvres porcelain
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of Elisa Baciocchi
Maria Anna Elisa Bonaparte Baciocchi Levoy ( French: ''Marie Anne Elisa Bonaparte''; 3 January 1777 – 7 August 1820), better known as Elisa Bonaparte, was an imperial French princess and sister of Napoleon Bonaparte. She was Princess of Lucca ...
(1809–1810).
Image:Museo delle porcellane di Firenze, porcellane viennesi a cineserie, 1799, 01.JPG, Vienna porcelain, sugar bowl
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(1799),
Image:Museo delle porcellane, tazzina 01.JPG, Shell-shaped cup.
See also
* List of most-visited art museumsReferences
External links
Art museums and galleries established in 1973 Art museums and galleries in Florence Ceramics museums in Italy Museo delle Porcellane Museo delle Porcellane Museo delle Porcellane {{italy-art-display-stub