Oosters Porselein in Nederland: Vier museumsollecties
Catalogue entries of porcelain from collections including the Gemeentemuseum, the Groninger Museum, the Princessehof Leeuwarden and the Rijksmuseum.
European Decoration on Oriental Porcelain 1700 – 1830
This scholarly publication is the first in-depth survey of European decorations on oriental porcelain, focusing particularly on enamellers in Holland, Germany and England. This book examines the many styles of over-decoration in Europe which reflected the changing fashions and markets of the time, including the Japanese styles of Kakiemon and Imari to the Chinese styles […]
Chinese Armorial Porcelain for the Dutch Market
In the 18th century, interest in Chine de Commande, Chinese porcelain made by special orders, was considerable in the Western European countries maintaining direct trade relations with China. Britain topped the list, importing 4,000 to 5,000 armorial services in this century, of which some 3,000 are documented by D.S. Howard in his Chinese Armorial Porcelain […]
China for the West: Chinese Porcelain and Other Decorative Arts for Export Illustrated from the Mottahedeh Collection
Over fifty years Mr and Mrs Mottahedeh of New York amassed a huge assembly of Chinese porcelain and other decorative arts for export, which in depth and variety is unprecedented. These two volumes aim to provide the most detailed and penetrating analysis yet made of the porcelains produced for Western markets; examining in its seven hundred pages and as […]
La voie du Imari : L’aventure des porcelaines à l’époque Edo
Bleu de cobalt, rouge de fer, blanc d’immaculé, jeux d’ors, effets brocart : à l’instar du sabre, des laques, du thé, des fleurs, le Japon a fait de la porcelaine une science, un art, une spiritualité. Mais la voie du imari est aussi bien celle des ports, des bateaux, du commerce des choses et de […]
Chinese Export Porcelain in the Reeves Center Collection at Washington and Lee University
The Reeves Center Collection of Chinese Export porcelain, numbering almost three thousand objects, is one of the largest. On permanent display in the Reeves Center for the Research and Exhibition of Porcelain and Paintings at Washington and Lee University, Lexington, Virginia, the collection is built around the more than eighteen hundred pieces of export porcelain […]
Chinese Export Porcelain: Chine de commande
The late seventeenth- and eighteenth-century porcelain made in China for export to Europe and later to the United States, sometimes referred to as « Chine de Commande », has a special charm: perhaps the charm of familiarity, for the early pieces of these wares so often served as models for European pottery and porcelain; and the later […]
Cargaisons de Chine – Porcelaines de la Compagnie des Indes du Musée de Lorient
Rédigé par Louis Mézin, alors conservateur en chef du musée de la Compagnie des Indes. Ce livre a été édité à l’occasion de l’exposition « Cargaisons de Chine, porcelaines de la Compagnie des Indes du musée de Lorient » (204 pages, illustrations couleur. L’accroissement des relations de commerce entre l’Occident et la Chine génère, au XVIIIe siècle, le […]
The Choice of the Private Trader: The Private Market in Chinese Export Porcelain Illustrated in the Hodroff Collection
The Private Trade in Chinese Export porcelain, as distinct from East India Company trade, has hitherto scarcely been recoginised as a subject in its own right. And yet the officers and supercargoes of the Hon. East India Company took full advantage of their license to trade on their own account; it is just this attractive […]
Armoiries Françaises et Suisses sur la Porcelaine de Chine au XVIIIe siècle
Après sept longues années de recherches pour localiser des porcelaines de Chine armoriées et pour identifier leurs propriétaires, Antoine Lebel publie aujourd’hui un ouvrage sur les armoiries françaises peintes sur la porcelaine de Chine au XVIIIe siècle. Cet ouvrage traite de plus de 260 familles françaises, dont une dizaine établies en Suisse. Chaque fiche, accompagnée […]