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Museum of East Asian Art
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Inaugural Exhibition Catalog (Volume 1)
The only museum devoted to East Asian Art to open in England in the last 30 years, the Museum of East Asian Art amasses a formidable collection of Chinese art, notably ceramics, jades, and metalworks. This volume presents the museum`s fine collection of Chinese ceramics, ranging in date from the Neolithic to the Qing dynasty.
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Museum of East Asian Art
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Inagural Exhibition Catalog (Volume 2)
Two Hundred and Forty inscribed bamboo and wooden strips and tablets in the collection of the Art Museum, The Chinese University of Hong Kong are published for the first time in this monograph. There are 10 strips belonging to the Chu State of the Warring States period, 229 pieces dated to the Han dynasty and 1 of the Jin period. All the items are color printed in original sizes by computer scanning and arranged in chronological order. The decipherment and detailed annotation are by Chen Song...
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Shunzhi Porcelain 1664 – 1661
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Treasures from an Unknown Reign
The Shunzhi era (1644–61), marking the end of the Ming Dynasty and the beginning of the Qing, was a transitional period in Chinese history. As far as porcelain was concerned, until the last 20 years, it was a little–known reign not only in the West but in China itself.
he Shunzhi era (1644–61), marking the end of the Ming Dynasty and the beginning of the Qing, was a transitional period in Chinese history. As far as porcelain was concerned, until the last 20 years, it was a little–known reign not only in the West but in China itself.
By the late 1630s, painters on porcelain had developed a new, highly recognizable, and successful style. Many of the innovative themes were taken from woodblock prints, with landscapes and narrative scenes particularly inspired by contemporary scroll and album paintings. Soon after 1644, potters began to paint wonderful landscapes, with stylistic devices such as clouds and rock formations used to fill in the back of the pot.
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Early Chinese Ceramics from New York State Museums
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Martie W. Young
The China House Gallery of the China Institute in America marked its 25th anniversary with an extraordinary exhibition in 1991. Early Chinese Ceramics from New York State Museums is the catalog.
There separate photos (lack & white) for each item with explanitory text on the adjacent page. Martie W. Young, Professor of Art History at Cornell University (and curator of Asian Art and Acting Director of the Hebert Johnson Museum of Art) wrote the catalog. His intimate knowledge of the subject and clear presentation provide a fascinating, readable history of the works which range from the Xia to the Qing periods. He also contributed the excellent introduction. A chronology and detailed bibliography ae included.
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Chinese Blue and White Porcelain
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Third Edition by Duncan MacIntosh
Blue and White porcelain has been in the mainstream of Chinese ceramic production since the beginning of the fifteenth centurys. When it first appeared in the fourteenth century Chinese connoisseurs had regarded it as vulgar and garish, and a hundred years later, after receiving immense Imperial patronage during the Xuande reign, was the victim of an austere puritanical reaction. Since the Chenghua reign later in the fifteenth century, however, blue and white has gone from strength to strength, and in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries had an immense effect on porcelain production in the West.
In this new History, the author traces the history of blue and white from its uncertain beginnings to the end of the Qing Dynasty. Considerable attention is also paid throughout to social and political events so that the reader can see something of the purely inhuman conditions that were contemporary with the production of
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Chinese export and design
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ed Craig Clunas
Looks at the production of luxury goods for export to European (and later to American) markets by the highly developed Chinese craft trade in the period following the arrival of the first Portuguese in 1514.
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Blue and White: Chinese Porcelain
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Around the World, by John Carswell
Chinese blue and white porcelain has made a unique contribution to the history of ceramic technology.
This richly illustrated book traces the history and evolution of blue and white in China, first during the Yuan dynasty (1271–1368), when the Mongols ruled all of Asia, creating an environment in which blue and white could travel swiftly as far as the Mediterranean. In the fifteenth century the Chinese became enamored of their own product, while at the same time the Ming potters were susceptible to ideas from the Islamic world and commercial and aesthetic pressures during the colonial period of European expansion. From the sixteenth century onwards, passion for collecting became a major influence on the concept of chinoiserie.
The book also includes unpublished material from a mysterious fourteenth century shipwreck in the Red Sea. Seen by only a handful of experts, published here for the first time. Full details with line drawings and complete mini–catalogue.
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Precious Vessels: 2000 Years of Chinese Pottery
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Liverpool, United Kingdom: National Museums & Galleries on Merseyside
107 pp, 7.25x9.75 ins. 191 examples from the Han to the Qing [Ching, Ch`ing] dynasties are pictured with catalog notes. Illustrated.
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