WILLETTS, WILLIAM (INTRODUCTION); POH, LIM SUAN (ESSAY)
Nonya Ware and Kitchen Ch'Ing: Ceremonial and Domestic Pottery of the 19th-20th Centuries Commonly Found in Malaysia
The Southeast Asian Ceramic Society, Malaysia. 1981, 1st Edition. (ISBN: 0195825160). Hardcover, with dust jacket. Book, English text.; Hardcover (with dust jacket).; 19.5 x 26 cm.; 0.568 Kg; 128 pages with black and white and colour illustrations.; Used with signs of wear. The dust jacket has edge wear and scratches on the front cover, spine and back cover. Two tears, one on the top left side of the front cover and the other on the left side of the back cover. Signs of wear on the interior, namely a stamp stating Showroom copy on title page and a former owner name written with a pen on the following page. Pages 63-64 ,69-70 and 75-76 are loose (they looked like they were cut from the hinge). Good readable copy.; Catalogue of the first member's exhibition of the Southeast Asian Ceramic Society, West Malaysia Chapter, held in the Muzium Seni Asia (Museum of the Arts of Asia), University of Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur, September 1981. With an introduction by William Willets and an Essay on Nonya Ware by Lim Suan Poh. This 128-page catalogue comprises 35 colour-plates featuring 85 individual pieces of pottery, and over 200 black-and-white photographs illustrating every piece exhibited. 'Nonya ware' is the name given to a variety of porcelain made during the 19th and early 20th century at Ch'ing-tê Chên, commonly found amongst the Straits Chinese of Penang, Malacca, and Singapore. It is highly distinctive in its multi-coloured enamelled decoration, often with phoenixes, peonies, and other symbols of marital bliss and longevity. It was used on festive occasions - weddings and birthdays - and owes its name to the fact that it was inherited matrilineally by the Nonyas, or females of the Straits Chinese communities. 'Kitchen Ch'ing' has been coined to name the common household pottery, often decorated in blue and white, of Ch'ing-tê Chên or south Chinese provincial manufacture, found in daily use in Malaysian households, and indeed throughout Southeast Asia, and other parts of the world where immigrant Chinese have settled. William Willets brings fresh insights to bear upon the process of 'devolution' of design in these wares, and calls into evidence the findings of the 1977 expedition to Balambangan, site of an East India Company trading-post established on an island off North Borneo in the late 18th century. Fair/Dust Jacket Included.

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