The China trade, 1600-1860
Trade Taste and Transformation: Jingdezhen Porcelain for Japan, 1620 – 1645
In the final decades of the Ming dynasty, the potters of Jingdezhen produced blue-and-white porcelain, kosometsuke, and an underglaze-blue and polychrome porcelain ware, ko’akae, for the Japanese market, particularly for use in the popular tea ceremony. Chinese decorative themes and manufacturing standards were transformed to accommodate traditional Japanese forms and aesthetics. This is the first […]
Chinese Export Art: In the Eighteenth Century
Chinese fine arts found a « sellers market » in eighteenth-century Europe. Fashionable caprice demanded that the great houses of the day should boast, if not a Chinese Room, then at least a collection of Chinese porcelains, lacquer goods, ivories, silks, and wall papers. This fascinating book gives a detailed and very well documented account of the […]
The Chinese Pavilion at Drottningholm
The Frick Collection An Illustrated Catalogue. Volume VII (Porcelains Oriental and French)
Chinese Ceramics: The Koger Collection
A Sotheby’s catalogue of the Koger collection of Chinese ceramics Color illustrations of all 154 pieces ranging from the prehistoric period to the Ch’ing dynasty. Includes figure models along with blue-and-white, monochrome and enamel painted pieces, single-color glazed pieces, sang-de-boeuf, celadon and more.
Kang-Hsi – Eine Blüte-Epoche der chinesischen Porzellankunst
One of the classic definitive books on Chinese Ceramics.
La maladie de porcelaine
100 masterpieces of Chinese and Japanese porcelain collected by August the Strong, Elector of Saxony and King of Poland (1670 – 1733), whose passion for collecting created the basis of Dresden’s Art Collections.
China’s influence on American culture in the 18th and 19th centuries
Exhibition held at the China House Gallery in the spring of 1976 and at the Seattle Art Museum in the fall of the same year. 67 objects displayed
Chinese porcelains in European mounts
