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Collectors, Collections and Museums

The Field of Chinese Ceramics in Britain, 1560-1960

Stacey Pierson (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

248 Seiten

2007
Peter Lang Group Ag, International Academic Publishers (Verlag)
978-3-03910-538-0 (ISBN)

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This book presents the first comprehensive study of the collecting, consumption and display of Chinese porcelain in Britain from the 16th to the 20th century, as well as the impact of this activity on British culture. Beginning with the early porcelains acquired as objects of exotica and vessels for the consumption of tea and coffee, followed by porcelains for display in the country house interior, the first part of this book reveals the role of porcelain in Britain's developing economic relations with China and the impact of this material on both daily life and interior design. The subsequent diplomatic and political conflicts of the 18th and 19th centuries provide a framework for an examination of British consumption of Chinese porcelain as both spoils of war and iconic representations of China, material which helped to shape and influence British perceptions of China. The final section demonstrates how these perceptions of China and its porcelain began to change significantly in the 20th century with porcelains acquired as works of art and displayed publicly in museums. Collectors in Britain began to specialise in this area and actively invented a 'field' of Chinese ceramics that was promulgated by learned societies and culminated in the founding of a museum of Chinese ceramics in London by one of the foremost British collectors, Sir Percival David, who donated his world class collection to the University of London in 1950.

The Author: Stacey Pierson is Curator of the Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art at the University of London and a lecturer in Chinese Ceramics at the School of Oriental and African Studies. She completed a Ph.D. in the History of Art at the University of Sussex on the subject of Percival David and the Field of Chinese Art in Britain, 1920-1964.

Contents: Chinese porcelain in Britain from 1560-1860 - Chinese Porcelain as spoils of war: 1860-1900 - Re-inventing Chinese porcelain: 1900-1920 - 1920-1935: The Oriental Ceramic Society and its public activities - Nostalgia: post-imperial China and the International Exhibition, 1935-1945 - Chinese porcelain in the museum: 1946-1960.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	24.4.2007
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 210 mm
Gewicht	350 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Malerei / Plastik
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► 1918 bis 1945
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
Schlagworte	1560 • 1960 • Britain • Ceramics • China • Chinese • Chinese porcelain • collections • Collectors • Field • Geschichte 1560-1960 • Großbritannien • Hardcover, Softcover / Kunst/Sonstiges • HC/Kunst/Sonstiges • Museums • Oriental ceramic • pierson • Porzellan • Rezeption • Sammlung • Sir Percival David • Spoils of War • stacey
ISBN-10	3-03910-538-8 / 3039105388
ISBN-13	978-3-03910-538-0 / 9783039105380
Zustand	Neuware