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Conference: Sacred Ceramics – Devotional Images in European Porcelain - Paul Ferguson - 08-19-2025
"Was eighteenth-century European porcelain just a ceramic material to be moulded into useful objects – or could it mean more? This conference explores what European porcelain might have communicated when it was used to create devotional objects... Porcelain’s alchemical heritage was also not without significance: success at the alchemical enterprise had always been deemed dependent on divine favour. These factors could lead to porcelain assuming a sacral character in Catholic court contexts. Devotional images in European porcelain exploited these cultural associations of the medium itself."
https://www.vam.ac.uk/event/0NP9lyz9Ew/sacred-ceramics-september-2025