Art of China

Art of China
Author: Philadelphia Museum of Art
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2018
Genre: ART
ISBN: 9780300237108

"The first publication to explore Philadelphia Museum of Art's wide-ranging collection of Chinese art, offering an introduction to general readers and serving as a valuable resource for future research and scholarship. This catalogue of one hundred highlights, drawn from a collection of more than seven thousand objects spanning more than four thousand years, will be both a sumptuous visual record of the Philadelphia Museum of Art's most notable Chinese works and an informative and valuable reference for those interested in Chinese art. The objects have been selected to show not only the strengths of the collection, but also important and distinctive examples of Chinese art in different mediums. They are also intended to bring together the museum's Chinese collection, which is presently housed in such disparate departments as Chinese export art, costume and textiles, Sino-Tibetan art, and contemporary art--representing sculpture, ceramics, furniture, architectural interiors, textiles, and paintings"--

Antique Chinese Art

Antique Chinese Art
Author: American Art Association
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Total Pages: 104
Release: 2017-10-28
Genre:
ISBN: 9781528516471

Excerpt from Antique Chinese Art: Single Colors, Blue and White, Jade, Amber, and Crystal, Including Beautiful Specimens Chosen From the Collection of Yiang-Lin-Sang, the Late Treasurer of the Chinese Empire at Peking and by the Expert Ta-Kee Shanghai; To Be Sold at Absolute Public Sale In the present exhibition collectors and amateurs will find a most beautiful lot of vases and curios for hall, mantel, and cabinet decoration. To the pieces recently received from the collection Of the late Treasurer of the Chinese Empire at Peking, yiang-lin-sang, the selections of the native porcelain expert, Ta - kee, of Shanghai, have been added. The exhibition has much artistic and chronological value. To complete garnitures and balance groups of vases some specimens have been selected from the reserve of my art house, 5 East Thirty-fourth Street, New York. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

The Great Chinese Art Transfer

The Great Chinese Art Transfer
Author: Michael St. Clair
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 245
Release: 2016-04-01
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1611479118

This book tells the story of how and why millions of Chinese works of art got exported to collectors and institutions in the West, in particular to the United States. As China’s last dynasty was weakening and collapsing from 1860 into the early years of the twentieth century, China’s internal chaos allowed imperial and private Chinese collections to be scattered, looted and sold. A remarkable and varied group of Westerners entered the country, had their eyes opened to centuries of Chinese creativity and gathered up paintings, bronzes and ceramics, as well as sculptures, jades and bronzes. The migration to America and Europe of China’s art is one of the greatest outflows of a culture’s artistic heritage in human history. A good deal of the art procured by collectors and dealers, some famous and others little known but all remarkable in individual ways, eventually wound up in American and European museums. Today some of the art still in private hands is returning to China via international auctions and aggressive purchases by Chinese millionaires.

Chinese Antiquities

Chinese Antiquities
Author: Ms Audrey Wang
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Total Pages: 285
Release: 2012-07-01
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1409455459

Chinese Antiquities: An Introduction to the Art Market provides an essential guide to the growing market for Chinese antiquities, encompassing all sectors of the market, from Classical Chinese paintings and calligraphy to ceramics, jade, bronze and ritual sculpture. Aimed at current and aspiring collectors, investors and galleries interested in Chinese antiquities, the book sets out to demystify the process of buying and selling in the Asian context, highlighting Asia-specific issues that market-players might encounter and making this category of art more accessible to newcomers to the market.

Ming

Ming
Author: Craig Clunas
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2014
Genre: Art objects, Chinese
ISBN: 9780714124841

Ask anyone what single object they associate with China and the most common answer will be a Ming vase. Probably without even knowing the dates of the Ming dynasty (1368-1644), people are aware of the fragility of its porcelain, its rarity and value. But porcelain is just one part of the story of one of the most glorious epoques of China's past. By focusing on the significant years of the early Ming dynasty and through the themes of court people and their lives, extraordinary developments in culture, the military, religion, diplomacy and trade, this book brings the wider history of this fascinating period to colourful life.