Distilled #5: Porcelain Painting

Join Distillations podcast hosts Lisa Berry Drago and Alexis Pedrick as Science History Institute staff members share their favorite objects from our museum, archival, and library collections.
This episode highlights an early-20th-century porcelain painting kit. Porcelain painting became popular after the 1876 Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia, when women saw porcelain objects from all around the world, including those made by other women. Today porcelain painting is trendy again.