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Book French Porcelain for English Palaces

Download or read book French Porcelain for English Palaces written by Joanna Gwilt and published by Royal Collection Trust. This book was released on 2009 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a guide to the history of SSvres porcelain as epitomised by seventy of the most important examples in the Royal Collection.

Book Eighteenth century English Porcelain in the Collection of the Indianapolis Museum of Art

Download or read book Eighteenth century English Porcelain in the Collection of the Indianapolis Museum of Art written by Indianapolis Museum of Art and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1987 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This very thorough catalogue, with excellent footnotes and bibliography, firmly places the subject in its broadest context." --Apollo Covers approximately 95 pieces, representing Chelsea, Bow, Derby, Worcester, Chamberlain-Worcester, Caughley, Longton Hall, Spode, and Hilditch and Sons.

Book Porcelain

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  • Author : Durs Grünbein
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2020
  • ISBN : 9780857427816
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Porcelain written by Durs Grünbein and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published for the first time in English, Porcelain is a book-length cycle of forty-nine poems written over the course of more than a decade that together serve as a lament for Durs Grünbein's hometown, Dresden, which was destroyed in the Allied firebombing of February 1945. Porcelain is a book-length cycle of forty-nine poems written over the course of more than a decade that together serve as a lament for Durs Grünbein's hometown, Dresden, which was destroyed in the Allied firebombing of February 1945. The book is at once a history and "declaration of love" to the famed "Venice on the Elbe," so catastrophically razed by British bombs; a musical fusion of eyewitness accounts, family memories, and stories, of monuments and relics; the story of the city's destiny as seen through a prism of biographical enigmas, its intimate relation to the "white gold" porcelain that made its fortune and reflections on the power and limits of poetry. Musical, fractured, ironic, and elegiac, Porcelain is controversial, too, in setting itself against what Grünbein calls the "myth" of the Germans as innocent victims of a war crime. At the same time, it never loses sight of the horror deliberately visited on an unwitting civilian population, nor the devastation that looms so large in the German memory. Published for the first time in English, on the seventy-fifth year anniversary of the firebombing, this edition contains new images, notes, Grünbein's own reflections and an additional canto--an extraordinary act of poetic kintsugi for the fractured remains of Dresden's memory.

Book The Art of Worcester Porcelain  1751 1788

Download or read book The Art of Worcester Porcelain 1751 1788 written by Aileen Dawson and published by UPNE. This book was released on 2009 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 2007 by the British Museum Press, London.

Book Catalogue of the Herbert Allen Collection of English Porcelain

Download or read book Catalogue of the Herbert Allen Collection of English Porcelain written by Victoria and Albert Museum. Dept. of Ceramics and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Porcelain

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  • Author : Edward Dillon
  • Publisher : Good Press
  • Release : 2019-12-19
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 412 pages

Download or read book Porcelain written by Edward Dillon and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-12-19 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Porcelain by Edward Dillon is a fascinating look at the delicate art of crafting porcelain. This all-encompassing nonfiction book includes porcelain from a variety of countries such as China, Japan, and Korea. Contents: "Introductory and Scientific Chapter II. The Materials: Mixing, Fashioning, and Firing Chapter III. Glazes Chapter IV. Decoration using Colour Chapter V. The Porcelain of China. Introductory—Classification—The Sung Dynasty—The Mongol or Yuan Dynasty Chapter VI. The Porcelain of China (continued). The Ming Dynasty Chapter VII. The Porcelain of China (continued). The Manchu or Tsing Dynasty Chapter VIII. The Porcelain of China (continued). Marks."

Book A Book of Porcelain

Download or read book A Book of Porcelain written by Bernard Rackham and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is the experience probably of most Western amateurs of porcelain to pass through three successive stages of development in their appreciation of an art which, even for the uninitiated, --for those who have no knowledge of its history and little understanding of its technical aspects, --is not lacking in charm and fascination.--pg. xiii.

Book Catalogue

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  • Author : Halliday, Bernard, Firm, Booksellers, Leicester, Eng
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1938
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 1058 pages

Download or read book Catalogue written by Halliday, Bernard, Firm, Booksellers, Leicester, Eng and published by . This book was released on 1938 with total page 1058 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Best of Pottery

Download or read book The Best of Pottery written by Angela Fina and published by Rockport Publishers. This book was released on 1998 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume continues in the tradition of The Best of Pottery, offering a rich gallery of new work honoring the world's best potters. Including wonderful pieces from more than 200 of today's most talented potters, this international collection takes in the full range of styles and techniques. The variety of subject matter and beautiful illustrations found in these pages will provide inspiration for both professionals and amateurs. This brilliant collection of pottery is an important sourcebook for craftspeople, gallery owners, students, land collectors, as well as the perfect gift for any pottery lover.

Book An Encyclop  dia of Domestic Economy

Download or read book An Encyclop dia of Domestic Economy written by Thomas Webster and published by . This book was released on 1855 with total page 1244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Athenaeum and Literary Chronicle

Download or read book Athenaeum and Literary Chronicle written by and published by . This book was released on 1857 with total page 1658 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book An Encyclop  aedia of Domestic Economy

Download or read book An Encyclop aedia of Domestic Economy written by Thomas Webster and published by . This book was released on 1845 with total page 598 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Ceramics in the Victorian Era

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  • Author : Rachel Gotlieb
  • Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
  • Release : 2023-06-29
  • ISBN : 1350354856
  • Pages : 313 pages

Download or read book Ceramics in the Victorian Era written by Rachel Gotlieb and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2023-06-29 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book broadens the discussion of pottery and china in the Victorian era by situating them in the national, imperial, design reform, and domestic debates between 1840 and 1890. Largely ignored in recent scholarship, Ceramics in the Victorian Era: Meanings and Metaphors in Painting and Literature argues that the signification of a pot, a jug, or a tableware pattern can be more fully discerned in written and painted representations. Across five case studies, the book explores a rhetoric and set of conventions that developed within the representation of ceramics, emerging in the late-18th century, and continuing in the Victorian period. Each case study begins with a textual passage exemplifying the outlined theme and closes with an object analysis to demonstrate how the fusing of text, image, and object are critical to attaining the period eye in order to better understand the metaphorical meanings of ceramics. Essential reading not only for ceramics scholars, but also those of material culture, the book mines the rich and diverse archive of Victorian painting and literature, from the avant-garde to the sentimental, from the well-known to the more obscure, to shed light on the at once complex and simple implications of ceramics' agencies at this time.

Book Imperial Paradoxes

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  • Author : Robert James Merrett
  • Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
  • Release : 2021-08-15
  • ISBN : 0228007976
  • Pages : 385 pages

Download or read book Imperial Paradoxes written by Robert James Merrett and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2021-08-15 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At war for sixty years, eighteenth-century Britain and France experienced demographic, social, and economic exchanges despite their imperial rivalry. Paradoxically, this rivalry spurred their participation in scientific and industrial developments. Their shared interest in standards of living and cultural practices was fuelled by migration and philosophical exchanges that reciprocally transmitted the values of urban geography, medicine, teaching, and the industrial and fine arts. In Imperial Paradoxes Robert Merrett compares British and French literature on those topics. He explains how food, wine, fashion, and tourism were channels of interdisciplinary relations and shows why authors in both nations turned the notion of empire from commercial and military expansion into a metaphor for exploring self-knowledge and pleasure. Although cognitive science has come to the fore only in the past two generations, eighteenth-century writers tested problems in the dualist and faculty psychology of Western rationalism. Themes of embodiment and embodied thought drawn from recent theorists are applied throughout this book, along with dialectics and models of the senses operating together. Imperial Paradoxes avoids the limitations of strict chronology, weaving together multiple narratives for a more complete picture. Applying major works in the fields of cognitive science, cognitive psychology, and pedagogical theory to prose, poetry, and drama from the eighteenth century, Merrett shows how attention to eating, drinking, dressing, and travelling gives important insights into individual literary works and literary history.

Book T P  s Weekly

Download or read book T P s Weekly written by Thomas Power O'Connor and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 840 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Tastemakers

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  • Author : Diana Davis
  • Publisher : Getty Publications
  • Release : 2020-07-07
  • ISBN : 1606066412
  • Pages : 322 pages

Download or read book The Tastemakers written by Diana Davis and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 2020-07-07 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An examination of the development, role, and influence of the British decorative art dealers who invented an Anglo-Gallic style for elite interiors. In this volume Diana Davis demonstrates how London dealers invented a new and visually splendid decorative style that combined the contrasting tastes of two nations. Departing from the conventional narrative that depicts dealers as purveyors of antiquarianism, Davis repositions them as innovators who were key to transforming old art objects from ancien régime France into cherished “antiques” and, equally, as creators of new and modified French-inspired furniture, bronze work, and porcelain. The resulting old, new, and reconfigured objects merged aristocratic French eighteenth-century taste with nineteenth-century British preference, and they were prized by collectors, who displayed them side by side in palatial interiors of the period. The Tastemakers analyzes dealer-made furnishings from the nineteenth-century patron’s perspective and in the context of the interiors for which they were created, contending that early dealers deliberately formulated a new aesthetic with its own objects, language, and value. Davis examines a wide variety of documents to piece together the shadowy world of these dealers, who emerge center stage as a traders, makers, and tastemakers.