Download or read book Antique China and Silver written by Tim Forrest and published by . This book was released on 2006-07-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Antique China Silver written by Tim Forrest and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Bulfinch Anatomy of Antique China Silver written by Tim Forrest and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An illustrated guide to antique china and silver pieces, arranged by period, that analyzes the unique details.
Download or read book The Marshall Guide to Antique China Silver written by Tim Forrest and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This guide to antique china and silver is arranged chronologically, starting in the 16th century and concluding in the 1950s. There is a detailed introduction defining the principal elements of tableware which takes a broad view of the social history of the table, illustrated with paintings and engravings. Having given the reader guidance to identification and dating within this overview, the introduction concludes with a timeline of historical, stylistic and social change, in the production of china and silver.
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Download or read book Chinese Export Silver 1785 to 1885 written by Henry A. Crosby Forbes and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Empire of Silver written by Jin Xu and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2021-02-23 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A thousand-year history of how China’s obsession with silver influenced the country’s financial well-being, global standing, and political stability This revelatory account of the ways silver shaped Chinese history shows how an obsession with “white metal” held China back from financial modernization. First used as currency during the Song dynasty in around 900 CE, silver gradually became central to China’s economic framework and was officially monetized in the middle of the Ming dynasty during the sixteenth century. However, due to the early adoption of paper money in China, silver was not formed into coins but became a cumbersome “weighing currency,” for which ingots had to be constantly examined for weight and purity—an unwieldy practice that lasted for centuries. While China’s interest in silver spurred new avenues of trade and helped increase the country’s global economic footprint, Jin Xu argues that, in the long run, silver played a key role in the struggles and entanglements that led to the decline of the Chinese empire.
Download or read book Paktong written by Keith Pinn and published by Antique Collectors Club Dist. This book was released on 1999 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paktong, a rare Chinese alloy imported in small quantities during the eighteenth century, was used by European craftsmen to make domestic objects in imitation of silverware. This metal has been shrouded in mystery since it was first recorded by Western travellers in the seventeenth century. The vital silver-coloured ingredient, nickel, was not identified in the West until the second half of the eighteenth century, and it was to be a further fifty years before scientists were able to perfect a viable imitation of paktong. In more recent times the mystery of paktong has lain in the lack of documentary evidence concerning its use in the Georgian period. This has given rise to many myths and speculative theories about the metal. Now, at last, the author's research among contemporary records hasenabled the history of paktong in eighteenth century England to be piecedtogether. A well-illustrated study and discussion of more than 100 paktong pieces will help readers identify and understand objects made from this scarce and highly-prized Chinese metal. AUTHOR: Keith Pinn is owner of an Antique business on the Essex/Suffolk border and a member of BADA and LAPADA, as well as chairman of the vetting committess of several major London Antiques Fairs. His interest in research led to writing this book on paktong about which, until now, very little was known. 30 colour & 115 b/w illustrations
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