This is the first book in English to document what Japanese porcelain was like before it was "discovered" in Europe, and thereafter made with a view to foreign, rather than Japanese, tastes. It is also the first in-depth study of the working practices of the pottery kilns of the seventeenth century. Impey assesses the individual kilns at Arita and reconstructs a detailed and fascinating picture of how these beautiful, little-known objects were made.

The Early Porcelain Kilns of Japan: Arita in the First Half of the Seventeenth Century (Oxford Oriental Monographs)

Arts & Photography

IMPEY, Oliver

History & Criticism

Oxford University Press

Chinoiserie: The Impact of Oriental Styles on Western Art and Decoration

Scribner

Origins of Museums: The Cabinet of Curiosities in Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

British Museum Pubns Ltd

The design of the Japanese folding screen is one of the great art devices in decorative arts. Its history, schools of painting, the artists are explored in this elegant publication wherein the golds, reds and greens reflect as accurately as possible on the printed page the actual screens.

The Art of the Japanese Folding Screen

Weatherhill

The catalogue of an exhibition organised jointly with the British Museum in the New Japanese Galleries, 6th July to 4th November 1990. 372 objects are described and illustrated, almost all in color. 17 figures accompany the text.

Porcelain for Palaces: The Fashion for Japan in Europe 1650-1750 (English and Japanese Edition) by John Ayers (1990-05-03)

Ayers, John

Du Boulay, Anthony

Mallet

J. V. G.

and Smith, Lawrence

Other Media

Oriental Ceramic Society

The five main types of these small and charming sculptures that are among the most keenly collected of all Japanese works. (Japanese dress had no pockets so netsuke hung above the obi for holding small items.) Distributed by Woodstocker Books.

Japanese Netsuke in Oxford

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Antiques & Collectibles

Ashmolean Museum

The nationally acclaimed lacquers of contemporary artists, husband and wife team of Suzuki Mutsumi and Suzuki Misako, have been exhibited at the Ostasitiske Museet, Stockholm, and in Europe. Distributed by Woodtocker Books.

The Lacquer of Suzuki Mutsumi and Suzuki Misako

Collections, Catalogs & Exhibitions

Since the early seventeenth century when the secret of porcelain was first carried from China to Japan by Korean potters, Japan has produced some of the world’s most exquisite porcelains. The Kakiemon masters in Arita on the island of Kyushu gained particular renown for the quality of their colourful overglaze enamels and artistic designs. Through exports Kakiemon ware had a profound impact on the development of European porcelain in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, inspiring ceramic manufacturers in both continental Europe and England to reach new levels of technical and artistic achievement. Dragons, Tigers and Bamboo highlights 170 masterpieces from the Bill and Molly Anne Macdonald Collection at the Gardiner Museum of Ceramic Art in Toronto, Canada. This extraordinary collection illustrates many different aspects of the historical interaction between Japanese and European porcelain during the seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. It is unquestionably the best cross-cultural porcelain collection in Canada and is among the best of its kind in the world. Illustrated with more than 160 full-colour photographs commissioned for this volume, Dragons, Tigers and Bamboo for the first time makes the Macdonald Collection accessible to an international audience.

Dragons, Tigers and Bamboo: Japanese Porcelain and Its Impact in Europe; The MacDonald Collection

Mason, Charles

Ceramic Art, Gardiner Museum Of

Jörg, Christiaan J.A.

Douglas&McIntyre

The Origins of Museums is an extensive account of the first great collections in late sixteenth and seventeenth century Europe. The collections, then called 'cabinets of curiosities', were the beginnings of museums as we now know them. The discovery of the New World saw a huge influx of exotic and rare exhibits arrive in from distant lands. These discoveries revolutionised the European view of the wider world. Scholars from all over the globe describe in thirty- three essays the achievements of numerous significant collectors, the range of material gathered and the impact these collections had on Late Renaissance society. With a comprehensive bibliography, the papers provide expert insight into this fascinating period of collecting history, a generally neglected subject.

The Origins of Museums

MacGregor, Arthur

House of Stratus Ltd

This booklet illustrates a selection of 20 woodblock prints form the series of prints by Ando Hiroshige called Meisho Edo Hakkei or One Hundred Views of Famous Places in Edo. Published between 1856-59, they were the last series designed by Hiroshige, who died in 1858.

Hiroshige's Views of Tokyo (One Hundred Views of Famous Places in Edo 1856-59)

Crafts & Hobbies

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