Author: Sotheby's Hong Kong, LtdPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art, Chinese
Languages : en
Pages : 750
Book Description
Chinese Ceramics, Jade, Works of Art & Furniture
Author: Sotheby's Hong Kong, LtdPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art, Chinese
Languages : en
Pages : 750
Book Description
Peking
Author: Susan NaquinPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520923454
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 862
Book Description
The central character in Susan Naquin's extraordinary new book is the city of Peking during the Ming and Qing periods. Using the city's temples as her point of entry, Naquin carefully excavates Peking's varied public arenas, the city's transformation over five centuries, its human engagements, and its rich cultural imprint. This study shows how modern Beijing's glittering image as China's great and ancient capital came into being and reveals the shifting identities of a much more complex past, one whose rich social and cultural history Naquin splendidly evokes. Temples, by providing a place where diverse groups could gather without the imprimatur of family or state, made possible a surprising assortment of community-building and identity-defining activities. By revealing how religious establishments of all kinds were used for fairs, markets, charity, tourism, politics, and leisured sociability, Naquin shows their decisive impact on Peking and, at the same time, illuminates their little-appreciated role in Chinese cities generally. Lacking most of the conventional sources for urban history, she has relied particularly on a trove of commemorative inscriptions that express ideas about the relationship between human beings and gods, about community service and public responsibility, about remembering and being remembered. The result is a book that will be essential reading in the field of Chinese studies for years to come.
Fine Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art
Author: Sotheby's (Firm)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art, Chinese
Languages : en
Pages : 622
Book Description
Sawasa
Author: Rijksmuseum (Netherlands)Publisher: University of Washington Press
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
"The exhibition 'Sawasa, Japanese export art in black and gold', with this accompanying publication, offers a first overview of Sawasa wares from the 17th and 18th centuries." "Sawasa is the Japanese name given to artefacts made by Asian artists and craftsmen, adopting European models combined with Japanese and Chinese materials and decorative motives. This decoration consists of refined gift relief and engravings on a lustrous lacquered surface." "Sawasa demonstrates not only the intercontinental commercial connections created by the Dutch East India Company (VOC) but also mutual cultural influences between Europe and Asia."--BOOK JACKET.
The Bulletin of the Oriental Ceramic Society of Hong Kong
Author: Oriental Ceramic Society of Hong KongPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Pottery, East Asian
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description
The Connoisseur
Author: Arts of Asia
Author: Chinese Ceramics
Author: British MuseumPublisher: British Museum Press
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
Presents 50 selected highlights of this world-renowned collection ... The accompanying text gives brief details and draws out their most significant features"--Cover flap.
Blanc de Chine
Author: John AyersPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136799826
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
Dehua porcelain, or Blanc de Chine as it is known in the West, is pure ivory-white porcelain made at the Dehua kilns in the southern Chinese province of Fujian. It rose to international significance in the 17th century and inspired aristocratic patronage in the development of European porcelain. Its popularity at home and abroad continued and the k
Sunnylands
Author: David Gilson De LongPublisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 9780812241617
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
Sunnylands, the Annenberg estate in Rancho Mirage, California, is one of America's great estates. This richly illustrated book chronicles its extensive history, and individual essays by distinguished specialists document each major collection and the home's significance as an example of California midcentury modernist architecture.