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Collecting China : Jean Theodore Royer (1737-1807), collections and Chinese studies / Jan van Campen
- Title
- Collecting China : Jean Theodore Royer (1737-1807), collections and Chinese studies / Jan van Campen
- Author
- Campen, Jan van,
- Publication
- Hilversum : Verloren, 2021
- ©2021
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- Description
- 296 pages; 24 cm
- Summary
- During a relatively short period, from around 1765 to 1780, the Dutch lawyer Jean Theodore Royer (1737-1807) was intensely engaged in the study of Chinese culture. Befriended VOC officials and their Chinese relations in Canton collected Chinese objects for him and helped him with his greatest ambition: the composition of a Chinese dictionary. The objects were given a home in his museum on the Herengracht in The Hague. Better than travel journals, they gave a picture of life in China in Royer's time. Because the selection was largely made by modest Chinese traders, the collection does not so much give a picture of the material culture of the Chinese elite, but rather that of the ambitious, upwardly-mobile world of small traders and craftsmen. These are mostly ephemeral objects that have rarely been preserved, but they came to The Hague, thanks to Royer and his Chinese contacts. A bequest from his widow then ensured that the collection ended up in two Dutch museums: Museum Volkenkunde in Leiden and the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, where the objects are still present today.
- Alternative Title
- Jean Theodore Royer (1737-1807) : collections and Chinese studies
- Subject
- 1700-1799
- Antiquarians > Hague > History > 18th century
- Antiquarians
- Antiquities
- Art > Private collections
- Art objects, Chinese > Private collections > Netherlands
- Art objects, Chinese > Private collections
- Art, Chinese > Collectors and collecting > Netherlands > 18th century
- Art, Chinese > Collectors and collecting
- China > Antiquities
- China > History > Netherlands > 18th century
- China
- Netherlands
- Royer, Jean Theodore, 1737-1807 > Art collections
- Royer, Jean Theodore, 1737-1807
- Note
- "This is a slightly edited and translated version of my thesis De Haagse jurist Jean Theodore Royer (1737-1807) en zijn verzameling Chinese voorwerpen (2000)" -- Preface
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 286-296)
- Contents
- I. Jean Theodore Royer (1737-1807) -- II. Royer's Chinese studies -- III. Royer's museum -- IV. European China collectors and China scholars of the 1770s.
- ISBN
- 9087049358
- 9789087049355
- OCLC
- on1268257210
- 1268257210
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries