Portugal na Porcelana da China: 500 Anos de Comércio/Portugal in Porcelain from China: 500 years of trade (VOLUME I, II, III and IV)

artemágica, Lisboa Book. Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Portuguese and English text.; Hardcover (with dust jacket).; 25 x 32 cm.; 9 Kg; 1312 pages with colour illustrations throughout.; 4 VOLUMES, VOL I-ISBN 978-989-605-034-4, Lisbon 2007, 263 pages; VOL II-ISBN 978-989-605-052-8, Lisbon 2008, pages 264 to 712; VOL III-ISBN 978-989-605-058-0, Lisbon 2009, pages 713 to 1000; VOL IV-ISBN 978-989-605-062-7, Lisbon 2010, pages 1001 to 1312; Used with signs of wear on the dust jackets. Interior with minor signs of wear. Bottom of first pages on volume 3 slightly bent.; Portugal in Porcelain from China: 500 Years of Trade, a multi-volume publication, is the long-awaited, comprehensive study of Chinese porcelain made specifically for the Portuguese market. Encompassing five centuries and first in its scope, this bilingual work, written in Portuguese and English, relates the history of Portugal's trade with China, through a complete documentation of the pieces of porcelain that were specially ordered by the Portuguese. VOLUME I, including 110 illustrations, focuses on the first pieces of blue and white porcelain made mainly for Portugal during the Ming reign (1500-1650). Three informative essays by leading scholars compliment the study of these earliest orders; "1488-1497: Nine Years that Changed the World. De Bartolomeu Dias a Vasco da Gama. A Política Ultramarina de D. João II" by Dr. Bruno Gonçalves Neves; "The Portuguese and the Trade in Chinese Porcelain. From the Beginning until the End of the Ming Dynasty." by Prof. Dr. Christian Jorg and "A Brief Introduction to Heraldry" by Master José Bénard Guedes Salgado. VOLUME II, with more than 400 pages and 330 illustrations, focus on orders from Kings and Queens of Portugal, Religious Orders and the Clergy, from the second half of the 17th until the end of the 19th centuries. The following eight informative essays by leading scholars precede the catalogue: Preface, by Prof. Dr. Joaquim Veríssimo Serrão; Carreira da Índia, by Dr. Bruno Gonçalves Neves; The Crown and Military Orders in Portugal, by Dom Vasco Xavier Teles da Gama; From private luxury to the public ostentation of wealth and power (Royal carriages at the National Carriage Museum) by Dr. Silvana Bessone; The Royal Galliotts in the Maritime Museum, by Portuguese-Navy-Captain José António Rodrigues Pereira: Royal Super-libros from the Braganza dynasty, by António Tavares de Carvalho; Ecclesiastical Heraldry on Chinese Porcelain Imported by the Portuguese, by Dr. Miguel Metelo de Seixas; and António Vieira and his defence of the People of the Nation, by Prof. Célia da Silva Tavares. VOLUME III, with more than 288 pages and 155 illustrations, focus on orders by the Portuguese aristocracy from the late seventeenth century until the mid-18th century, presenting also a summary of all the published information in the 20th century. The following three informative essays by leading scholars precede the catalogue: News about porcelana in a 1590's letter from Jesuit Duarte Sande, by Professor Joaquim Veríssimo Serrão; Trade with the Orient: forms of operation and commercial participation on the India Route in the 16th century, by Dr. Bruno Gonçalves Neves and also "E entre gente remota edificaram novo Reino, que tanto sublimaram" Portuguese Society in the Orient - 16th and 17th Century, by Professor Célia Cristina da Silva Tavares. VOLUME IV, with more than 310 pages and 199 illustrations, focus on the orders made by the Portuguese aristocracy from the mid-18th century until 1800, together with a summary of all the published information in the 20th century. The following three informative essays by leading scholars precede the catalogue: TERRA BRASILIS: A sketch of the society established in Portuguese America from the 16th to the 18th centuries, by Professor Célia Cristina Tavares; Chinese Porcelain ordered by Portuguese Jews in the Diaspora, by Robert Bachmann and Alternative proposal for the classification of chinese porcelain according to its decoration, by A. Varela Santos..