Jourdain Margaret & Jenyns R. Soame

CHINESE EXPORT ART in the eighteenth century

Codice: 35765

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List of illustrations - Introduction - Lacquer and Lacquered Furniture - Paper-hangings, Prints and Paintings - Paintings on Glass - Porcelain - Painted (Canton) Enamels - Carving in Ivory, Tortoiseshell and Mother-of-Pearl - Silk Textiles - Appendices - Illustrations - Index

  • Casa editrice: Country Life - Charles Scribner's Sons
  • Luogo Edizione: London - New York
  • Anno: 1950
€ 25,00

28x21,5 cm., legatura in piena tela, titoli impressi in oro sul piatto e sul dorso, sopraccoperta plastificata, illustrata, in antiporta illustrazione a colori: MIRROR, painted with a group of Chinese in a river landscape, in a carved and gilt frame. Middle of the eighteenth century; pp. 152, 144 illustrations in nero, ampie didascalie, prima edizione, in lingua inglese, leggere macchie in sopraccoperta, buon esemplare.

This is the first comprehensive survey of the export art of China in the eighteenth century, and especially of the production of goods for the European market, which exercised so important an influence on English and French designs and decoration...