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CHINESE
EXPORT PORCELAIN IN NORTH AMERICA expands
the focus of Mudge’s first porcelain book from America to all of North
America. It starts with the Portuguese and Spanish in China in the late 16th
century, exporting Chinese wares to Mexico. It continues with the Dutch, British
and other Europeans in the 17th and 18th centuries, who brought Chinese goods
to their colonies in the New World. It ends with the American trade with China
through the early 20th century. Over 400 illustrations, mostly in color, illustrate
the porcelains’ range of Western symbols on an Eastern product, some
from private, previously unpublished collections. Collectors, curators, historians,
and archaeologists, for whom ceramic shards are “bread crumbs” of past societies,
will find important details in the book’s five appendices on marks, gilt porcelains,
shipwrecks, archaelogical sites, and western museum collections. An extensive
glossary and concordance are also included. |
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WHAT THE CRITICS SAY: “Your book is invaluable to Mexican collectors
who will be interested in everything from the origins to the destination,
the shipwrecks, techniques, epochs, shards found in the Mexican excavations,
and the superb glossary. The photographs are first-rate, and the designer
combined beautifully the coloured ones and the black and white. The ‘formato’ is
just the right one: one is so tired of those enormous heavy books than
can only be seen on the coffee table.” “This is a remarkable book, dense and definitely
not skimmable, thank heavens.” |
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