Research Catalog

Title

Porcelain stories : from China to Europe / Julie Emerson, Jennifer Chen, Mimi Gardner Gates.

Author

Emerson, Julie.

Publication

Seattle, WA : London : Seattle Art Museum in association with University of Washington Press, c2000.

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Additional Authors

• Chen, Jennifer
• Gates, Mimi Gardner, 1942-
• Seattle Art Museum

Description

319 p. : col. ill.; 30 cm.

Summary

"In a series of intertwined narratives, Porcelain Stories explores porcelain's beginnings in China around A.D. 600, then follows its diverse developments as a new and fashionable commodity within China and throughout Asia, the Middle East, and Europe. The book recounts the ingenious achievements of Chinese porcelain and its worldwide impact through trade, where in the West, it spurred a mania for collecting and an urgent quest seeking the formula for and process of creating porcelain." "Cultural and stylistic interchange between East and West is the other main focus of these stories. They place porcelain objects in the context of their times and cultures, retracing porcelain's technological, aesthetic, and commercial evolution over twelve centuries."--Jacket.

Subject

• Geschichte
• Porcelain, Chinese > Exhibitions
• Porcelain, European > Exhibitions
• Porcelain, European > Chinese influences > Exhibitions
• China > Commerce > Europe > Exhibitions
• Europe > Commerce > China > Exhibitions

Genre/Form

Exhibition catalogs

Note

• Published in conjunction with an exhibition held at the Seattle Art Museum, Feb. 17-May 7, 2000.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 296-310) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

The first porcelain -- Early northern and southern chinese porcelain -- Early porcelain trade -- Imperial patronage and princely enterprises -- West meets east -- The age of porcelain.

ISBN

0932216528 (alk. paper)

LCCN

^^^99059508^

OCLC

• 42892280
• SCSB-9884084

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library