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Author : William Burton
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book A General History of Porcelain written by William Burton and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Suzanne L. Marchand
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691204233
Total Pages : 528 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (912 download)
Download or read book Porcelain written by Suzanne L. Marchand and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2022-05-24 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This is the book on porcelain we have been waiting for. . . . A remarkable achievement."—Edmund de Waal, author of The Hare with Amber Eyes A sweeping cultural and economic history of porcelain, from the eighteenth century to the present Porcelain was invented in medieval China—but its secret recipe was first reproduced in Europe by an alchemist in the employ of the Saxon king Augustus the Strong. Saxony’s revered Meissen factory could not keep porcelain’s ingredients secret for long, however, and scores of Holy Roman princes quickly founded their own mercantile manufactories, soon to be rivaled by private entrepreneurs, eager to make not art but profits. As porcelain’s uses multiplied and its price plummeted, it lost much of its identity as aristocratic ornament, instead taking on a vast number of banal, yet even more culturally significant, roles. By the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, it became essential to bourgeois dining, and also acquired new functions in insulator tubes, shell casings, and teeth. Weaving together the experiences of entrepreneurs and artisans, state bureaucrats and female consumers, chemists and peddlers, Porcelain traces the remarkable story of “white gold” from its origins as a princely luxury item to its fate in Germany’s cataclysmic twentieth century. For three hundred years, porcelain firms have come and gone, but the industry itself, at least until very recently, has endured. After Augustus, porcelain became a quintessentially German commodity, integral to provincial pride, artisanal industrial production, and a familial sense of home. Telling the story of porcelain’s transformation from coveted luxury to household necessity and flea market staple, Porcelain offers a fascinating alternative history of art, business, taste, and consumption in Central Europe.
Author : Robert Finlay
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520945387
Total Pages : 461 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (29 download)
Download or read book The Pilgrim Art written by Robert Finlay and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2010-02-17 with total page 461 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Illuminating one thousand years of history, The Pilgrim Art explores the remarkable cultural influence of Chinese porcelain around the globe. Cobalt ore was shipped from Persia to China in the fourteenth century, where it was used to decorate porcelain for Muslims in Southeast Asia, India, Persia, and Iraq. Spanish galleons delivered porcelain to Peru and Mexico while aristocrats in Europe ordered tableware from Canton. The book tells the fascinating story of how porcelain became a vehicle for the transmission and assimilation of artistic symbols, themes, and designs across vast distances—from Japan and Java to Egypt and England. It not only illustrates how porcelain influenced local artistic traditions but also shows how it became deeply intertwined with religion, economics, politics, and social identity. Bringing together many strands of history in an engaging narrative studded with fascinating vignettes, this is a history of cross-cultural exchange focused on an exceptional commodity that illuminates the emergence of what is arguably the first genuinely global culture.
Author : William Burton
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Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book A General History of Porcelain written by William Burton and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Bernard Rackham
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Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
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.
Author : Ezekiel Blomfield
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Total Pages : 844 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book A General View of the World written by Ezekiel Blomfield and published by . This book was released on 1807 with total page 844 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Muḥammad Jamāl al-Dīn Mukhtār
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520066977
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (669 download)
Download or read book UNESCO General History of Africa, Vol. II, Abridged Edition written by Muḥammad Jamāl al-Dīn Mukhtār and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1990-06-27 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This volume covers the period from the end of the Neolithic era to the beginning of the seventh century of our era. This lengthy period includes the civilization of Ancient Egypt, the history of Nubia, Ethiopia, North Africa and the Sahara, as well as of the other regions of the continent and its islands."--Publisher's description.
Author : ANTONIO ESCOHOTADO
Publisher : GRAFFITI MILITANTE
ISBN 13 : 1735787817
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (357 download)
Download or read book THE GENERAL HISTORY OF DRUGS VOLUME TWO PART TWO written by ANTONIO ESCOHOTADO and published by GRAFFITI MILITANTE. This book was released on 2021-06-07 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE SECOND HALF OF VOLUME TWO OF THE GENERAL HISTORY OF DRUGS BY ANTONIO ESCOHOTADO, TRANSLATED INTO ENGLISH BY G. W. ROBINETTE. THE LATE MIDDLE AGES.
Author : Yuqin Sun
Publisher : World Scientific
ISBN 13 : 9811256446
Total Pages : 499 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (112 download)
Download or read book General History Of China's Foreign Trade, A (Volume 1) written by Yuqin Sun and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2024-02-08 with total page 499 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: China boasts a long history of foreign trade. As early as the pre-Qin period, residents of the country began to ship silk and other merchandise on outbound voyages. From the 2nd century BCE on, China has been connected to the rest of the world via the Overland Silk Road and the Maritime Silk Road initiated in the reign of Emperor Wu of the Western Han Dynasty.Trade relations between China and other regions in the world have been developing gradually and continuously. Trade has contributed to deepening economic and cultural exchanges between China and other countries. While benefiting the whole of humankind, Chinese civilization has also absorbed the achievements of other civilizations, allowing China and other countries to experience mutual benefits and advance together.This is the first volume in a series of books retelling the arduous development of China's foreign trade. It covers ancient times, recording China's foreign trade from the pre-Qin period to the early period of the Qing Dynasty.
Author : Donna M. McAleer
Publisher : Fortis
ISBN 13 : 9780984551118
Total Pages : 399 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (511 download)
Download or read book Porcelain on Steel written by Donna M. McAleer and published by Fortis. This book was released on 2010 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Portraits of fourteen women who graduated from West Point and served in the Army, highlighting their character, accomplishments, leadership, ordeals and sacrifices.
Author : Charles Wyllys Elliott
Publisher : Good Press
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Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (64 download)
Download or read book Pottery and Porcelain, from early times down to the Philadelphia exhibition of 1876 written by Charles Wyllys Elliott and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-12-06 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Pottery and Porcelain, from early times down to the Philadelphia exhibition of 1876" by Charles Wyllys Elliott. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.
Author : Sydney F. Walker
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Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book Electric Wiring and Fitting for Plumbers and Gasfitters ... written by Sydney F. Walker and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Huan Hsu
Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 : 0307986314
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (79 download)
Download or read book The Porcelain Thief written by Huan Hsu and published by Crown. This book was released on 2015-03-24 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A journalist travels throughout mainland China and Taiwan in search of his family’s hidden treasure and comes to understand his ancestry as he never has before. In 1938, when the Japanese arrived in Huan Hsu’s great-great-grandfather Liu’s Yangtze River hometown of Xingang, Liu was forced to bury his valuables, including a vast collection of prized antique porcelain, and undertake a decades-long trek that would splinter the family over thousands of miles. Many years and upheavals later, Hsu, raised in Salt Lake City and armed only with curiosity, moves to China to work in his uncle’s semiconductor chip business. Once there, a conversation with his grandmother, his last living link to dynastic China, ignites a desire to learn more about not only his lost ancestral heirlooms but also porcelain itself. Mastering the language enough to venture into the countryside, Hsu sets out to separate the layers of fact and fiction that have obscured both China and his heritage and finally complete his family’s long march back home. Melding memoir, travelogue, and social and political history, The Porcelain Thief offers an intimate and unforgettable way to understand the complicated events that have defined China over the past two hundred years and provides a revealing, lively perspective on contemporary Chinese society from the point of view of a Chinese American coming to terms with his hyphenated identity.
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Total Pages : 482 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (7 download)
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Author : Frand Karslake
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Total Pages : 788 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (34 download)
Download or read book Book Auction Records written by Frand Karslake and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 788 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A priced and annotated annual record of international book auctions.
Author : Louis Edgar Andés
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Total Pages : 298 pages
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Download or read book The Treatment of Paper for Special Purposes written by Louis Edgar Andés and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 1216 pages
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