European Porcelain, Part I.
Author : Sotheby's (Firm)
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Page : pages
File Size : 11,20 MB
Release : 1963
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Author : Sotheby's (Firm)
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Page : pages
File Size : 11,20 MB
Release : 1963
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Author : Sotheby & Co. (London, England)
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Page : pages
File Size : 11,68 MB
Release : 1963
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Author : Rene Fribourg
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Page : pages
File Size : 37,17 MB
Release : 1963
Category : Art
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Author : Rene Fribourg
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Page : 92 pages
File Size : 49,4 MB
Release : 1963
Category : Art
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Author : Sotheby & Co. (London, England)
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Page : 79 pages
File Size : 39,90 MB
Release : 1963*
Category : Porcelain
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Author : Denise Patry Leidy
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 38,75 MB
Release : 2015-09-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 1588395715
Among the most revered and beloved artworks in China are ceramics—sculptures and vessels that have been utilized to embellish tombs, homes, and studies, to drink tea and wine, and to convey social and cultural meanings such as good wishes and religious beliefs. Since the eighth century, Chinese ceramics, particularly porcelain, have played an influential role around the world as trade introduced their beauty and surpassing craft to countless artists in Europe, America, and elsewhere. Spanning five millennia, the Metropolitan Museum’s collection of Chinese ceramics represents a great diversity of materials, shapes, and subjects. The remarkable selections presented in this volume, which include both familiar examples and unusual ones, will acquaint readers with the prodigious accomplishments of Chinese ceramicists from Neolithic times to the modern era. As with previous books in the How to Read series, How to Read Chinese Ceramics elucidates the works to encourage deeper understanding and appreciation of the meaning of individual pieces and the culture in which they were created. From exquisite jars, bowls, bottles, and dishes to the elegantly sculpted Chan Patriarch Bodhidharma and the gorgeous Vase with Flowers of the Four Seasons, How to Read Chinese Ceramics is a captivating introduction to one of the greatest artistic traditions in Asian culture.
Author : Suzanne L. Marchand
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 44,91 MB
Release : 2022-05-24
Category : History
ISBN : 0691204233
"This is the book on porcelain we have been waiting for. . . . A remarkable achievement."—Edmund de Waal, author of The Hare with Amber Eyes A sweeping cultural and economic history of porcelain, from the eighteenth century to the present Porcelain was invented in medieval China—but its secret recipe was first reproduced in Europe by an alchemist in the employ of the Saxon king Augustus the Strong. Saxony’s revered Meissen factory could not keep porcelain’s ingredients secret for long, however, and scores of Holy Roman princes quickly founded their own mercantile manufactories, soon to be rivaled by private entrepreneurs, eager to make not art but profits. As porcelain’s uses multiplied and its price plummeted, it lost much of its identity as aristocratic ornament, instead taking on a vast number of banal, yet even more culturally significant, roles. By the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, it became essential to bourgeois dining, and also acquired new functions in insulator tubes, shell casings, and teeth. Weaving together the experiences of entrepreneurs and artisans, state bureaucrats and female consumers, chemists and peddlers, Porcelain traces the remarkable story of “white gold” from its origins as a princely luxury item to its fate in Germany’s cataclysmic twentieth century. For three hundred years, porcelain firms have come and gone, but the industry itself, at least until very recently, has endured. After Augustus, porcelain became a quintessentially German commodity, integral to provincial pride, artisanal industrial production, and a familial sense of home. Telling the story of porcelain’s transformation from coveted luxury to household necessity and flea market staple, Porcelain offers a fascinating alternative history of art, business, taste, and consumption in Central Europe.
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Page : 79 pages
File Size : 42,36 MB
Release : 1963
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Author : Harriet Wynter
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Page : 255 pages
File Size : 33,27 MB
Release : 1971
Category : Porcelain, European
ISBN : 9780851401270
Author : Teresa Canepa
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 16,32 MB
Release : 2016
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781911300014
A vibrant exploration of the fascinating and complex trade encounters and cross-cultural interactions between the East and West in the early modern period.