Catalogue
Title | Catalogue PDF eBook |
Author | Bernard Quaritch (Firm) |
Publisher | |
Pages | 1304 |
Release | 1922 |
Genre | Antiquarian booksellers |
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Objets d'art anciens de la Chine et du Japon provenant en majeure partie de la collection Edmond Taigny [Chevallier, 1903].
Title | Objets d'art anciens de la Chine et du Japon provenant en majeure partie de la collection Edmond Taigny [Chevallier, 1903]. PDF eBook |
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Pages | 0 |
Release | 1903 |
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Objets d'art et de curiosité de Chine et du Japon notice
Title | Objets d'art et de curiosité de Chine et du Japon notice PDF eBook |
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Pages | |
Release | 1864 |
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Sale
Title | Sale PDF eBook |
Author | Anderson Galleries, Inc |
Publisher | |
Pages | 470 |
Release | 1910 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN |
Objet d'art et de curiosités de la Chine et du Japon
Title | Objet d'art et de curiosités de la Chine et du Japon PDF eBook |
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Release | 1873 |
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Collecting and Displaying China's “Summer Palace” in the West
Title | Collecting and Displaying China's “Summer Palace” in the West PDF eBook |
Author | Louise Tythacott |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 345 |
Release | 2017-10-25 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 135162489X |
In October 1860, at the culmination of the Second Opium War, British and French troops looted and destroyed one of the most important palace complexes in imperial China—the Yuanmingyuan. Known in the West as the "Summer Palace," this site consisted of thousands of buildings housing a vast art collection. It is estimated that over a million objects may have been taken from the palaces in the Yuanmingyuan—and many of these are now scattered around the world, in private collections and public museums. With contributions from leading specialists, this is the first book to focus on the collecting and display of "Summer Palace" material over the past 150 years in museums in Britain and France. It examines the way museums placed their own cultural, political and aesthetic concerns upon Yuanmingyuan material, and how displays—especially those at the Royal Engineers Museum in Kent, the National Museum of Scotland and the Musée Chinois at the Château of Fontainebleau—tell us more about European representations and images of China, than they do about the Yuanmingyuan itself.