Download or read book Catalogue des collections J Tulpinck compos es de porcelaines anciennes de la Chine du Japon de Saxe Tournai et autres telles que plats assiettes groupes figurines et pendules en biscuit de porcelaines faiences et gr s anciens objets de vitrine vitraux verroteries et lustres a cristaux groupes en bronze dinanderies et ferronneries meubles en bois sculpt et dor belles chemin es anciennes argenteries tentures en tapisseries des Flandres toffes et soieries anciennes a tissus d argent tableaux et peintures d coratives tableaux modernes livres d architecture et ouvrages illustr s written by and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Mounted Oriental Porcelain in the J Paul Getty Museum written by J. Paul Getty Museum and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1982 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ever since the Middle Ages it was the practice in Europe to mount exotic objects such as oriental porcelain in settings of precious or semiprecious metal as tribute to their rarity and value. In the seventeenth century, when Chinese and Japanese porcelains began to reach the West in considerable quantities, the practice continued, especially in France. With the opening of the eighteenth century, it became increasingly fashionable in Parisian society to decorate the interiors of houses with Far Eastern materials such as lacquer and mounted porcelain. This taste was catered to by the marchands-merciers, members of a guild who combined the functions of the modern interior decorator, the antique dealer, and the picture dealer. These men devised highly ingenious settings for Far Eastern porcelains to adapt their exotic character to the French interiors of the period. At first these were of silver (occasionally even gold); later, during the Rococo period when gilding was very lavishly used for the decoration of walls, furniture, light fittings, etc., gilt bronze was the material generally adopted. The marchands-merciers not only designed such mounts and employed some of the most skillful craftsmen of the day to execute them but also marketed them. The survival of the account book of one of their number, Lazare Duvaux, whose shop Au Chagrin de Turquie in the rue Saint Honoré was patronized by the most fashionable sections of Parisian society, has provided us with an immense amount of information about mounted oriental porcelain, its makers, its cost, who collected it, and so on. This information has been drawn on in cataloguing the Getty Museum’s collection of mounted oriental porcelain, which is unusually large and of exceptionally high quality.

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