Author: MUDGE, JEAN MCCLURE
Title: Chinese Export Porcelain in North America
Description: Clarkson N. Potter, Inc./Publishers, New York. 1986, 1st Edition. (ISBN: 0517544709). Hardcover, with dust jacket. Book, English text; Hardcover (with dust jacket); 26 x 25 cm; 1.5 kg; 300 pages with colour and black and white illustrations.; Used with minor signs of wear on the dust jacket, namely some minor scratches and wear marks on the front cover, spine and back cover. Ex-library stamp on front free endpaper. The remaining interior is in very good condition with minor signs of wear. Very good condition overall.; "The most beautiful vessels and plates of porcelain that one can describe are made.. in this city. And there is plenty there and a great sale, so great that for one Vene- tian groat you would actually have three bowls so beautiful that none would know how to devise them better.". So wrote Marco Polo of the chinawares he ob- served in his thirteenth-century travels in China's Fukien Province. Since that time our appreciation of and appetite for the superb porcelains ex- ported from China have, if anything, increased. Spectacularly varied, from charmingly naïve to delicately ornate, export ware is a unique symbol of East-West relations. The study of these objects and the history of the porcelain trade in North America tells a fascinating story of evolving tastes and traditions in the New World. Historian and art scholar Jean McClure Mudge, whose previous work on porcelain is a standard reference work on the subject, is one of the country's leading authorities on Chinese export ware. Now in Chinese Export Porcelain in North America she offers an even greater collection of porcelain objects, more than 250 of them in full color and many never before photographed. The entire range-from the earliest pieces carried by Spanish, Dutch, French, and English ships to the newly founded Colonies, the post-Revolutionary commission work, and lesser known discoveries from excavations and private collections in Mexico-is represented. Dr. Mudge traces the influences of colonial powers on porcelain decorations and forms, providing useful guidelines for understanding and evaluating these highly collectible objects. Drawing on numerous sources previously unexplored in book form, including several from the People's Republic of China, the comprehensive text includes appendices on major shipwrecks and archaeological sites, a discussion of marks and gilt wares, and a helpful glossary of porcelain terminology. Chinese Export Porcelain is an indispensable source of information for any collector and an invaluable addition to the library of every curator, art historian, or archaeologist. Very Good/Dust Jacket Included.

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