Pilgrim Bottle (c. 1715): Art, History and Details

Pilgrim Bottle (c. 1715) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection. The museum's creator attribution is Meissen Porcelain Factory (German, est. c. 1710).

The work and its context

The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:

Throughout the early 1700s porcelain was imported to Europe from China and Japan, until the correct formula to produce it was developed by Johann Friedrich Böttger and a collaborator, which led to the establishment of the Meissen factory in 1710. Red stoneware inspired by Chinese Yixing ware and white porcelain were produced in Meissen under Böttger. Its fine red stoneware was so hard that it could be polished on a lapidary’s wheel—as was the body of this bottle.

Object facts

• Title: Pilgrim Bottle
• Date: c. 1715
• Creator attribution: Meissen Porcelain Factory (German, est. c. 1710)
• Culture: Germany, Meissen, 18th century
• Type: Ceramic
• Technique: polished red stoneware, silver-gilt mounts
• Dimensions: Overall: 15.9 x 9.6 cm (6 1/4 x 3 3/4 in.)
• Collection: Decorative Arts
• Department: Decorative Art and Design
• Accession number: 1951.451

Collection credit

Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund

Further reading listed by the museum

• The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958.
• The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966.
• The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969.

View the collection record

See the museum's photographs and full catalogue entry. Catalogue text is reproduced from the Cleveland Museum of Art's open-access data, with HTML formatting removed. This object and its supplied image are designated CC0.