Ancient times

(Rights: Wikipedia, 08/2021)

The second great epoch in the development of porcelain, after the Neolithic, was antiquity. While the majority of all porcelain makers attribute the origin of porcelain to Johann Friedrich Böttger from Meissen, we believe that the desire for tableware originated in the hearth! The cook's art of producing tasty and healthy dishes from food, ingredients and spices by combining and preparing them had already reached a high level in antiquity.

Among other things, we at Holst Porzellan regard porcelain and tableware as tools of the kitchen.

Often, even then, cooks and doctors worked together to produce special dishes for many kinds of different ailments. The art of cooking came from Asian countries to Greek antiquity and only to Italy through the imperial wars of expansion around 20 BC. There, under the Roman emperors Augustus and Tiberius, the first schools of cookery were practised. In ancient Rome, cooks were mostly slaves taken captive in war. Cooks were popular and expensive, and extremely high prices were paid for good cooks.

Travel with us further in the history of porcelain to Marco Polo.