Published in conjunction with the exhibition held at the Bard Graduate Center: Decorative Arts, Design History, Material Culture from January 26 through April 17, 2011. Includes bibliographical references (p. 321-331) and index.
Contents:
A technical study of early Chinese enamels / Isabelle Biron and Béatrice Quette. Inscriptions and marks / Béatrice Quette -- Cloisonné form and decoration from the Yuan through the Qing dynasty / Béatrice Quette -- Beyond the women's quarters : meaning and function of cloisonné in the Ming and Qing dynasties / Pengliang Lu -- A reverence for the past : influences from Chinese antiquity / Rose Kerr -- Auspicious messages on cloisonné vessels / Terese Tse Bartholomew -- Scholar Zhang peeks at Yingying : thoughts on pictorial aspects of Chinese cloisonné and the relationship with painting / Claudia Brown -- Cloisonné for the imperial courts / Zhang Rong -- The revival of cloisonné enamel in France at the end of the nineteenth century / Odile Nouvel-Kammerer -- Early collections and displays of Chinese cloisonné enamel in Europe and the United States, 1860-1930 / Susan Weber -- Catalogue of the Exhibition / Béatrice Quette -- A technical study of early Chinese enamels / Isabelle Biron and Béatrice Quette.
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