PL EN
Unia Europejska
Unia Europejska
nieslyszacy
PL EN
Unia Europejska
European Union

Blotting sand container

CATALOGUE ENTRY

Kolekcja

Decorative Arts
Germany, Meissen
1st half of 19th century (?)
Porcelain, cobalt, gilding
Ø 10.8 x 7.7 cm
Marks: in the centre of the bottom on an unglazed base crossed swords in cobalt, below in gold 55., along the edge impressed I.
Wil.784

piasecznica.JPG

Young owners of ball point pens and computer printers might find it difficult to imagine that the pens used by their parents and grandparents, with a regulated flow of the ink, were not patented until 1884. Thanks to an invention by Lewis Waterman fears that an almost written page could become illegible as a result of an unplanned blot finally vanished. Earlier, and in the first half of the twentieth century, universal use was made of nib and penholder, dipped in an inkwell. Previous generations coped with a fragile quill, which had to be sharpened. At the beginning of the nineteenth century, 30 mln goose feathers were imported to England in a single year. Drying a freshly written page called for fine sand, kept in a special vessel that was part of an inkstand. The forms of the two vessels in Wilanów, devised probably in the mid-eighteenth century, were used in Meissen as late as the twentieth century; they were also applied by other Saxon, Thuringian and Berlin producers.

Barbara Szelegejd

2015-09-24
44_dama piszaca list we wnetrzu biblioteki_anonimowa akwaforta holenderska 1718.jpg

Queen Marie Casimire’s Correspondence

The little “d’Arquien”, born French and nicknamed Marysieńka [Little Mary] apparently by Polish ladies-in-waiting, had a good command of the …

Jakub Sobieski, rycina Juliana Schübelera, 1883; Biblioteka Narodowa

On old Polish diaries

XVII century was the time of strong development of diary writing, which in the previous century only began to form …

44_karta tytulowa dziela honoriusza d urfe.jpg

Astrea and Celadon, or the Letters of Jan Sobieski and Marysieńka

In August and September, Jan Sobieski, the great standard-bearer of the Crown, was passionately devouring French romances. He eagerly read …

Biuletyn Informacji Publicznej Biuletyn Informacji Publicznej

Museum in Internet

Organizer

Partners

Sponsors

Idea & Design
Copyright © Muzeum Pałacu Króla Jana III w Wilanowie

We would like to inform that for the purpose of optimisation of content available on our website and its customisation according to your needs, we use information stored by means of cookies on the Users' end devices. You can control cookies by means of your Internet browser settings. Further use of our website without change of the browser settings means that you accept the use of cookies. For more information on cookies used by us and to feel comfortable about this subject, please familiarise yourselves with our Privacy Policy.

✓ I understand