[PDF] Porcelain For Palaces eBook

Author : Joanna Gwilt
Publisher : Royal Collection Trust
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 36,93 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN :

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This book provides a guide to the history of SSvres porcelain as epitomised by seventy of the most important examples in the Royal Collection.

Author : Lisa E. Rotondo-McCord
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 38,54 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 9780894940606

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Japanese Imari porcelain, with its vivid red, blue and gold palette, reached Europe in the late seventeenth century and created a sensation among collectors accustomd to the more austere palette of blue-and-white Chinese wares. Soon Imari chargers and full garnitures graced the palaces and great houses of Europe and formed significant portions of the massive collections of Asian porcelains formed by many kings and princes. When high prices and increased competition from China caused imports of Imari to slow in the mid-eignteenth century, Imari continues to exert a strong influence on both the design and palette used to create porcelains at the newly established porcelain factories both in England and on the Continent.--pg. 6.

Author : Samuel Wittwer
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 29,76 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780892366446

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"Augustus the Strong (1670-1733) had long been a collector of Japanese and Chinese porcelain, and it was to house his collection that the Japanese Palace in Dresden was purchased. In 1729 Augustus enlarged the building to nearly double its original size in order to create a "porcelain palace." One gallery was to be entirely devoted to Meissen porcelain, including the exceptional animal figures that are the subject of this book and the exhibition it accompanies."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : George R. Gardiner Museum of Ceramic Art. Macdonald Collection
Publisher : Douglas & McIntyre
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 47,56 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
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Since the early seventeenth century when the secret of porcelain was first carried from China to Japan by Korean potters, Japan has produced some of the world's most exquisite porcelains. The Kakiemon masters in Arita on the island of Kyushu gained particular renown for the quality of their colourful overglaze enamels and artistic designs. Through exports Kakiemon ware had a profound impact on the development of European porcelain in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, inspiring ceramic manufacturers in both continental Europe and England to reach new levels of technical and artistic achievement. Dragons, Tigers and Bamboo highlights 170 masterpieces from the Bill and Molly Anne Macdonald Collection at the Gardiner Museum of Ceramic Art in Toronto, Canada. This extraordinary collection illustrates many different aspects of the historical interaction between Japanese and European porcelain during the seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. It is unquestionably the best cross-cultural porcelain collection in Canada and is among the best of its kind in the world. Illustrated with more than 160 full-colour photographs commissioned for this volume, Dragons, Tigers and Bamboo for the first time makes the Macdonald Collection accessible to an international audience.