Collecting China
Title | Collecting China PDF eBook |
Author | Vimalin Rujivacharakul |
Publisher | Rowman & Littlefield |
Pages | 235 |
Release | 2011 |
Genre | Antiques & Collectibles |
ISBN | 1611490065 |
Collecting China is a unique collection of essays that brings together theories of materiality and what collecting has meant to various peoples over time. Collecting China grew out of a simple question: how does a thing become Chinese? Fifteen essays explore this question from different angles, ranging from close examination of world-renowned private collections to critical reinterpretations of historical writings.
Collecting China
Title | Collecting China PDF eBook |
Author | Jan van Campen |
Publisher | Uitgeverij Verloren |
Pages | 299 |
Release | 2022-03-14 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9087049358 |
During a relatively short period, from around 1765 to 1780, the Dutch lawyer Jean Theodore Royer (1737-1807) was intensely engaged in the study of Chinese culture. Befriended VOC officials and their Chinese relations in Canton collected Chinese objects for him and helped him with his greatest ambition: the composition of a Chinese dictionary. The objects were given a home in his museum on the Herengracht in The Hague. Better than travel journals, they gave a picture of life in China in Royer’s time. Because the selection was largely made by modest Chinese traders, the collection does not so much give a picture of the material culture of the Chinese elite, but rather that of the ambitious, upwardly-mobile world of small traders and craftsmen. These are mostly ephemeral objects that have rarely been preserved, but they came to The Hague, thanks to Royer and his Chinese contacts. A bequest from his widow then ensured that the collection ended up in two Dutch museums: Museum Volkenkunde in Leiden and the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, where the objects are still present today.
China Collecting in America
Title | China Collecting in America PDF eBook |
Author | Alice Morse Earle |
Publisher | |
Pages | 454 |
Release | 1906 |
Genre | Pottery |
ISBN |
The ABC of Collecting Old English China
Title | The ABC of Collecting Old English China PDF eBook |
Author | J. F. Blacker |
Publisher | |
Pages | 400 |
Release | 1921 |
Genre | Collectors and collecting |
ISBN |
The A B C of Collecting Old English China
Title | The A B C of Collecting Old English China PDF eBook |
Author | J. F. Blacker |
Publisher | |
Pages | 166 |
Release | 1908 |
Genre | Collectors and collecting |
ISBN |
The China Collectors
Title | The China Collectors PDF eBook |
Author | Karl E. Meyer |
Publisher | Macmillan |
Pages | 442 |
Release | 2015-03-10 |
Genre | Antiques & Collectibles |
ISBN | 1137279761 |
The untold and fascinating history of the unlikely artistic encounters between the US and China, the youngest and oldest of major powers
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia: The Century dictionary ... prepared under the superintendence of William Dwight Whitney ... rev. & enl. under the superintendence of Benjamin E. Smith
Title | The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia: The Century dictionary ... prepared under the superintendence of William Dwight Whitney ... rev. & enl. under the superintendence of Benjamin E. Smith PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 866 |
Release | 1911 |
Genre | Atlases |
ISBN |