Author: Sotheby & Co. (London, England)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 134

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Author: Adam T. Kessler
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004218599
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 679

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Song Blue and White Porcelain on the Silk Road disproves received opinion that pre-Ming blue and white dates to the Yuan (1279-1368 A.D.) and establishes the proper foundation for 21st century study of ancient Chinese porcelain.

Author: Jae K. Shim
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781849720779
Category : Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 373

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Includes 2,200 economics related terms such as: balanced budget multiplier, Laffer curve, Clintonomics.

Author: Anne Gerritsen
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108499953
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 349

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A compelling examination of the ultimate global commodity, blue and white porcelain, from kiln to consumers across the globe.

Author: Francis John Bagott Watson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 140

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Author: Gillian Wilson
Publisher: Getty Publications
ISBN: 0892365625
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 130

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The Getty Museum’s large and exceptional collection of oriental porcelain embellished with Parisian gilt bronze or silver is comprehensively illustrated in this revised catalogue. The European practice of mounting exotic objects such as oriental porcelain dates from the Middle Ages and found its height of expression during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, when Chinese and Japanese porcelains reached the West in considerable quantities. To meet the growing taste for such objects in fashionable Parisian society, marchands-merciers—guild members who combined the functions of the modern interior decorator, antique dealer, and picture dealer—devised ingenious settings in silver and gilt bronze for oriental porcelains, adapting their exotic character to the French interiors of the period. With the publication of this catalogue, the beauty and rarity with which buyers of these pieces were so enamored is vividly brought to life.

Author: Richard A. Pegg
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780984373611
Category : Bronzes, Chinese
Languages : en
Pages : 305

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Author: Joanna Waley-Cohen
Publisher: I.B. Tauris
ISBN: 9781780766683
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 176

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Was the primary focus of the Qing dynasty really civil rather than military matters? In this ground-breaking book, Joanna Waley-Cohen overturns conventional wisdom to put warfare at the heart of seventeenth and eighteenth century China. She argues that the civil and the military were understood as mutually complementary forces. Emperors underpinned military expansion with a wide-ranging cultural campaign intended to bring military success, and the martial values associated with it, into the mainstream of cultural life. The Culture of War in China is a striking revisionist history that brings new insight into the roots of Chinese nationalism and the modern militarized state.

Author: Pedro de Moura Carvalho
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789810996857
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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"This book is published in conjunction with the exhibition, Christianity in Asia: sacred art and visual splendour, presented at the Asian Civilisations Museum, Singapore, from 27 May to 11 September 2016"--Title page verso.

Author: Thierry Audric
Publisher: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften
ISBN: 9783034338219
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 240

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Displaying a talent for combining aesthetic sensibility with scientific rigor, the author has given new life to something that once excited European passions: an original, non-academic art at the forefront of the 'new technology' of the time. For decades, aristocrats of the Old World and then American collectors (the latter at the end of the eighteenth and beginning of the nineteenth centuries) spent countless sums on the purchase of these works, which were worth a fortune. These wealthy collectors of curiosities of all types were also most certainly great dreamers seeking a worthy setting for their dreams. Unbeknownst to them, their endeavours had much greater scope, creating and nourishing the conditions for a rare encounter between two worlds: a golden age of atypical collaboration, a combined adventure between China and Europe.