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Flammarion, Paris, 1986 Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. French text; Hardcover (with dust jacket); 25 x 33.9 cm; 2.76 Kg; 432 pages with 1206 illustrations, 100 in colour.; Minor signs of wear on the front cover, spine and back cover of the dust jacket.; This reference book almost functions as an encyclopaedia, identifying and providing possible dates to a very large range of western scenes painted on Chinese porcelain, commissioned through the East India Companies and that arrived in Europe, and later in the United States, during the 18th century. The idea of asking craftsmen of the Middle Kingdom to paint porcelain according to their own taste emerged very early in the minds of those Europeans who travelled to the Far East. For example, to paint a boat on which they had been sailing for six months on a bowl, or to reproduce an engraving, the portrait of a loved one, among others. In short, Westerners asked for anything that, for one reason or another (and the diversity of orders is…
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La Porcelaine des Compagnies des Indes: A Décor Occidental
by Hervouet, Francois, Nicole Hervouet, and Yves Bruneau
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Paris: Flammarion, 1986. 1st . Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. in publisher's thin cardboard slipcase; bookseller's label at top of rear pastedown, small chip from laminate at bottom of dust jacket spine.
The premier work on the wares imported by the Compagnies des Indies, this book is organized into 16 chapters according to decorative motif -- marine subjects, hunting, exterior scenes, interior scenes, women, couples, music, literary and historical subjects, villas and landscapes, religious subjects, masonic symbols, mythology, coats of arms, Meissen style porcelain, European decoration in a Chinese style, and faux -- and contains over 1300 illustrations. Text in French.
The premier work on the wares imported by the Compagnies des Indies, this book is organized into 16 chapters according to decorative motif -- marine subjects, hunting, exterior scenes, interior scenes, women, couples, music, literary and historical subjects, villas and landscapes, religious subjects, masonic symbols, mythology, coats of arms, Meissen style porcelain, European decoration in a Chinese style, and faux -- and contains over 1300 illustrations. Text in French.
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- Edition 1st
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- ISBN 10 2080109901
- ISBN 13 9782080109903
- Publisher Flammarion
- Place of Publication Paris
- Date Published 1986
- Keywords Chinese Export Porcelain
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