Matières à porcelaine in the collection of Mineralogical Museum of Turin University

Abstract

In the first half of the nineteenth century the Mineralogical Museum of Turin University enriched its collections through exchanges of samples occurred between Alexandre Brongniart, director of the Manufacture of Sèvres and the directors of the Turin Museum; first Etienne Borson in 1811-12 and later Angelo Sismonda in 1833-34. In the early decades of the nineteenth century were sent to Sèvres raw and processing products of the factories of Turin and surroundings. Some samples that Borson brought from Paris have been identified in the set of samples already cataloged or being cataloged. As for the shipment of Sèvres of 1833, a set of samples from the time of arrival was kept as corpus and associated with its autograph document of Brongniart: thus a collection of 15 mineralogical samples and product processing of porcelain has been preserved until today.

Keywords

• Brongniart Alexandre
• Borson Etienne
• Sismonda Angelo
• Manufacture Royale de Sèvres
• Mineralogy and Petrography Museum
• Turin University
• porcelain
• product processing

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