An Extraordinary Collection of Japanese and Chinese High-class Art ... Including Many Articles Selected by Native Connoisseurs at the Imperial Exhibition at Tokio, for Messrs. A.A. Vantine & Co


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An Extraordinary Collection of Japanese and Chinese High-Class Art


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Excerpt from An Extraordinary Collection of Japanese and Chinese High-Class Art: Comprising Superb Satsuma Specimens, Marvelously Wrought Bronzes, Including Masterpieces of Japan's Famous Artisans, Exquisitely Wrought Solid Silver Specimens, Magnificent Cloisonné Enamels, Gems in Carved Jade; Antique Lacquers and Ivory Carvings The old Satsuma-ware, the decoration of which is mostly composed of bird and flower paintings, amongst which the Chrysanthemum, the paeonia, the fowl, the pheasants and pea cocks take a prominent place, is further distinguished by the delicacy of the outline, the fine red and green colors, and by the tracings in thick gold lines of a dull color. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.



















The Great Chinese Art Transfer


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This book tells the story of how and why millions of Chinese works of art got exported to collectors and institutions in the West, in particular to the United States. As China’s last dynasty was weakening and collapsing from 1860 into the early years of the twentieth century, China’s internal chaos allowed imperial and private Chinese collections to be scattered, looted and sold. A remarkable and varied group of Westerners entered the country, had their eyes opened to centuries of Chinese creativity and gathered up paintings, bronzes and ceramics, as well as sculptures, jades and bronzes. The migration to America and Europe of China’s art is one of the greatest outflows of a culture’s artistic heritage in human history. A good deal of the art procured by collectors and dealers, some famous and others little known but all remarkable in individual ways, eventually wound up in American and European museums. Today some of the art still in private hands is returning to China via international auctions and aggressive purchases by Chinese millionaires.




Ivory and the Aesthetics of Modernity in Meiji Japan


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The opening of the ports of Japan in 1859 brought a flood of Japanese craft products to the world marketplace. For ivory it was a golden age. This book examines the role that ivory and ivory carvers played in the expression of nationalism and the development of sculpture in the later nineteenth and early twentieth century.