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The Wares of the Ming Dynasty
Author: Wares of the Ming Dynasty
Author: R. L. HOBSONThe Wares of the Ming Dynasty
Author: R. L. HobsonWares of the Ming Dynasty
Author: R. L. HobsonPublisher: Tuttle Publishing
ISBN: 1462913032
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 365
Book Description
This book explains and illustrates as many varieties of Ming ceramics as possible. The text is based primarily on information obtained from Chinese sources and the occasional notes made by Europeans who visited China in Ming times. To these, Mr. Hobson has added his own penetrating deductions, made after careful study of well-authenticated specimens and of observation by earlier scholars. His presentation is not only clear and precise but also incontestably authoritative and at the same time highly readable. The first twelve chapters of the book deal almost exclusively with the porcelain produced at Ching-te Chen; the next four, with the porcelain and pottery made at other centers. The bulk of the 129 pieces illustrated (12 in color) are drawn from private collections, but references is also made to important examples in museums. Of particular interest are Mr. Hobson's comments on collecting and on the identification of genuine Ming wares. A special chapter on marks, inscriptions, and Chinese characters is included, together with a selected bibliography.
The Later Ceramic Wares of China
Author: Robert Lockhart HobsonPublisher:
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Category : Chʻing porcelain
Languages : en
Pages : 514
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˜Theœ Wares of the Ming Dynasty
Author: Robert Lockhart HobsonPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 267
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The Stonewares of Yixing
Author: Kuei-hsiang LoPublisher: Hong Kong University Press
ISBN: 9789622091122
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
Despite its beauty, individuality and variety of design, the red or brown unglazed stoneware produced at Yixing in Jiangsu Province has received less attention than other branches of Chinese ceramic art. The Yixing potters have always specialized in the making of teapots, whose use became widespread during the Ming period as a result of the innovation of making tea from rolled leaves, rather than using it in the fine-ground, powdered from in which it had previously been supplied.
Chinese Ceramics
Author: Laurie BarnesPublisher:
ISBN: 9780300112788
Category : China
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The product of a ten-year collaboration among eminent American, Chinese, and Japanese scholars, Chinese Ceramics offers a new perspective in interpreting the oldest and one of the most admired Chinese art forms, from its technological aspects to its aesthetic value. The volume includes a chapter on Chinese export ceramics that delves into Chinese trade activities and ceramic wares made for export as well as a chapter about the authenticity of Chinese ceramics, discussing issues related to connoisseurship of this Chinese art."--Pub. desc.
The Troubled Empire
Author: Timothy BrookPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674072537
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
The Mongol takeover in the 1270s changed the course of Chinese history. The Confucian empireÑa millennium and a half in the makingÑwas suddenly thrust under foreign occupation. What China had been before its reunification as the Yuan dynasty in 1279 was no longer what it would be in the future. Four centuries later, another wave of steppe invaders would replace the Ming dynasty with yet another foreign occupation. The Troubled Empire explores what happened to China between these two dramatic invasions. If anything defined the complex dynamics of this period, it was changes in the weather. Asia, like Europe, experienced a Little Ice Age, and as temperatures fell in the thirteenth century, Kublai Khan moved south into China. His Yuan dynasty collapsed in less than a century, but Mongol values lived on in Ming institutions. A second blast of cold in the 1630s, combined with drought, was more than the dynasty could stand, and the Ming fell to Manchu invaders. Against this backgroundÑthe first coherent ecological history of China in this periodÑTimothy Brook explores the growth of autocracy, social complexity, and commercialization, paying special attention to ChinaÕs incorporation into the larger South China Sea economy. These changes not only shaped what China would become but contributed to the formation of the early modern world.
A Handbook of Chinese Ceramics
Author: Suzanne G. ValensteinPublisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN: 0810911701
Category : Porcelain
Languages : en
Pages : 383
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