Author: Le Corbeiller, Clare
Title: China Trade Porcelain: Patterns of Exchange -- Additions to the Helena Woolworth Mccann Collection in the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Description: New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1974. Hardcover. Green cloth, red ill. DJ. 134 pp. 49 color and bw plates. "Recent interest in China trade porcelain has brought to light significant new examples of this ware. The present study deals with fifty-two pieces or groups of pieces added since 1955 to the Metropolitan Museum's well-known Helena Woolworth McCann Collection of China Trade Porcelain. Dating from the early sixteenth to the mid-nineteenth century, these tapersticks, cups, pitchers, plates, dishes, and tureens tell us a good deal about the growth of European interest in the are, how Western tastes in design changed, how the makers' skills and techniques took them from blue-and-white ware through grisaille and famille rose painting to polychrome plus gilt, and how the shapes of porcelains reflected in some cases the direct influences of European metalwork and glassware." (dj) All 52 pieces are addressed in the annotated and illustrated catalogue here. VG/VG-, minor wear and scuffing to cover .

Keywords: Asian Decorative Arts ; China Trade Porcelain ; ; Ceramics - Asian


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