Mounted Oriental Porcelain In The J Paul Getty Museum

Author : F. J. B. Watson,Gillian Wilson,Anthony Derham
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 105 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1983-01-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780892360345

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Mounted Oriental Porcelain in the J. Paul Getty Museum by F. J. B. Watson,Gillian Wilson,Anthony Derham Pdf

Ever since the Middle Ages it was the practice in Europe to mount exotic objects such as oriental porcelain in settings of precious or semiprecious metal as tribute to their rarity and value. In the seventeenth century, when Chinese and Japanese porcelains began to reach the West in considerable quantities, the practice continued, especially in France. With the opening of the eighteenth century, it became increasingly fashionable in Parisian society to decorate the interiors of houses with Far Eastern materials such as lacquer and mounted porcelain. This taste was catered to by the marchands-merciers, members of a guild who combined the functions of the modern interior decorator, the antique dealer, and the picture dealer. These men devised highly ingenious settings for Far Eastern porcelains to adapt their exotic character to the French interiors of the period. At first these were of silver (occasionally even gold); later, during the Rococo period when gilding was very lavishly used for the decoration of walls, furniture, light fittings, etc., gilt bronze was the material generally adopted. The marchands-merciers not only designed such mounts and employed some of the most skillful craftsmen of the day to execute them but also marketed them. The survival of the account book of one of their number, Lazare Duvaux, whose shop Au Chagrin de Turquie in the rue Saint Honoré was patronized by the most fashionable sections of Parisian society, has provided us with an immense amount of information about mounted oriental porcelain, its makers, its cost, who collected it, and so on. This information has been drawn on in cataloguing the Getty Museum’s collection of mounted oriental porcelain, which is unusually large and of exceptionally high quality.

Author : Gillian Wilson,Sir Francis Watson
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2000-03-16
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780892365623

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Mounted Oriental Porcelain in the J. Paul Getty Museum by Gillian Wilson,Sir Francis Watson Pdf

The Getty Museum’s large and exceptional collection of oriental porcelain embellished with Parisian gilt bronze or silver is comprehensively illustrated in this revised catalogue. The European practice of mounting exotic objects such as oriental porcelain dates from the Middle Ages and found its height of expression during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, when Chinese and Japanese porcelains reached the West in considerable quantities. To meet the growing taste for such objects in fashionable Parisian society, marchands-merciers—guild members who combined the functions of the modern interior decorator, antique dealer, and picture dealer—devised ingenious settings in silver and gilt bronze for oriental porcelains, adapting their exotic character to the French interiors of the period. With the publication of this catalogue, the beauty and rarity with which buyers of these pieces were so enamored is vividly brought to life.

Author : Francis John Bagott Watson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : UOM:39015016852645

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Mounted Oriental Porcelain by Francis John Bagott Watson Pdf

Author : Gillian Wilson
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 118 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Design
ISBN : 9780892360505

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Selections from the Decorative Arts in the J. Paul Getty Museum by Gillian Wilson Pdf

J. Paul Getty began to collect French decorative arts in the 1930s and continued to do so until his death in 1976. The Museum’s collection has continued to grow since then at a rapid pace and contains over three hundred individual pieces at the time this book is published. This volume illustrates fifty of them. The selection represents a cross section of the collection, which covers the period from approximately 1660 to 1800. In the eighteenth century it became fashionable in Parisian society to decorate the interiors of houses with Far Eastern materials such as lacquer and porcelain. This taste was catered to by the marchands-merciers, members of a guild who combined the functions of the modern interior decorator, the antique dealer, and the picture dealer. These men devised highly ingenious settings for Far Eastern porcelains to adapt their exotic character to the French interiors of the period. Information about them and their clientele has been used in cataloguing the Getty Museum’s collection of mounted oriental porcelain, which is large and of high quality. This book is not a catalogue, nor is it a mere picture book or checklist. Each piece has been chosen because it represents a particular aspect of the crafts involved in the production of objects that were made by Parisian craftsmen for the crown, the nobility, and the rich bourgeoisie. The pieces are arranged in chronological order. Translations of the French archival extracts, an index, and a concise bibliography have been provided.

Author : Gillian Wilson,Catherine Hess
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2002-03-07
Category : Design
ISBN : 9780892366323

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Summary Catalogue of European Decorative Arts in the J. Paul Getty Museum by Gillian Wilson,Catherine Hess Pdf

J. Paul Getty had a passion for the exquisitely made furniture and decorative objects of eighteenth-century France, which he began collecting in the 1930s. Gillian Wilson, curator of decorative arts since 1971, has broadened and strengthened the collection, adding Boulle furniture, mounted oriental porcelain, tapestries, clocks, ceramics, and more. In the 1980s and 1990s the Museum continued to enlarge its decorative arts holdings, creating a European sculpture department in 1984 and adding glass, maiolica, goldsmiths’ work, pietre dure, and furniture from Italy and Northern Europe. This book is a revised and expanded edition of Decorative Arts: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue of the Collection of the J. Paul Getty Museum (1993). In addition to more than forty recent acquisitions—among these four wall sconces from Versailles that once belonged to Marie Antoinette and an elaborate upholstered bed from the collection of Karl Lagerfeld—it includes the results of years of research. Designed for scholars, students, and devotees of the decorative arts, this volume provides a comprehensive look at the Getty's fine collection.

Author : Charissa Bremer-David,Peggy Fogelman,Peter Fusco,Catherine Hess
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1993-09-09
Category : Design
ISBN : 9780892362219

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Decorative Arts by Charissa Bremer-David,Peggy Fogelman,Peter Fusco,Catherine Hess Pdf

This volume includes concise, illustrated entries on the more than 450 examples of furniture, porcelain, and silver from the Museum's collection. New to this expanded edition are sections devoted to maiolica and glass. An index of previous owners and updated bibliographies are of particular help to the scholar.

Author : J. Paul Getty Museum,Adrian Sassoon,Gillian Wilson
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : UOM:39015014256658

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Decorative Arts by J. Paul Getty Museum,Adrian Sassoon,Gillian Wilson Pdf

Author : The J. Paul Getty Museum
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1979-01-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780892360185

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The J. Paul Getty Museum Journal by The J. Paul Getty Museum Pdf

The J. Paul Getty Museum Journal 6/7 is a compendium of articles and notes pertaining to the Museum's permanent collections of antiquities, paintings, sculpture, and works of art. This volume includes an editorial statement by the journal’s editors: Burton B. Fredericksen, curator of Paintings, Jiří Frel, curator of Antiquities, and Gillian Wilson, curator of Decorative Arts. Conservation problems are discussed along with articles written by K. Christiansen, B. B. Fredericksen, S. Holo, G. Wilson, B. L. Shifman, M. Shapiro, J. Frel, D. M. Brinkerhoff, C. C. Vermeule, G. Koch, S. Downey, l. Kilian-Dirlmeier, C. Cardon, F. Brommer, M. A. Del Chiaro, P. Visonà, J. Cody, R. Mellor, D. L. Thompson, E. Langlotz, P. Zazoff, S. Knudsen Morgan, M. Jentoft-Nilsen, and A. Manzoni.

Author : Petra ten-Doesschate Chu,Ning Ding
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2015-10-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781606064573

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Qing Encounters by Petra ten-Doesschate Chu,Ning Ding Pdf

Qing Encounters: Artistic Exchanges between China and the West examines how the contact between China and Europe in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries transformed the arts on both sides of the East-West divide. The essays in the volume reveal the extent to which images, artifacts, and natural specimens were traded and copied, and how these materials inflected both cultures’ visions of novelty and pleasure, battle and power, and ways of seeing and representing. Artists and craftspeople on both continents borrowed and adapted forms, techniques, and modes of representation, producing deliberate, meaningful, and complex new creations. By considering this reciprocity from both Eastern and Western perspectives, Qing Encounters offers a new and nuanced understanding of this critical period.

Author : Charissa Bremer-David,Catherine Hess,Jeffrey W. Weaver,Gillian Wilson
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1997-11-13
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780892364558

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Masterpieces of the J. Paul Getty Museum: Decorative Arts by Charissa Bremer-David,Catherine Hess,Jeffrey W. Weaver,Gillian Wilson Pdf

This beautifully illustrated work brings together more than one hundred objects from the J. Paul Getty Museum’s collection of European decorative arts. Included here is a generous selection of French and Italian furniture from the mid-sixteenth to the early nineteenth century. Masterpieces by André-Charles Boulle, Bernard (II) van Risenburgh, and others reveal the virtuoso craftsmanship that makes these objects such compelling examples of the furniture maker’s art. Many of the Museum’s finest pieces of porcelain, glass, and tin-glazed earthenware are also represented. Tapestries from Gobelins and Beauvais, bronze firedogs from Fontainebleau, and a lathe-turned ivory goblet of astonishing complexity from Saxony are among the other highlights of this handsome volume.

Author : Dena Goodman,Kathryn Norberg
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780415949538

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Furnishing the Eighteenth Century by Dena Goodman,Kathryn Norberg Pdf

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Author : Diana Davis
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2020-07-07
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781606066416

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The Tastemakers by Diana Davis Pdf

An examination of the development, role, and influence of the British decorative art dealers who invented an Anglo-Gallic style for elite interiors. In this volume Diana Davis demonstrates how London dealers invented a new and visually splendid decorative style that combined the contrasting tastes of two nations. Departing from the conventional narrative that depicts dealers as purveyors of antiquarianism, Davis repositions them as innovators who were key to transforming old art objects from ancien régime France into cherished “antiques” and, equally, as creators of new and modified French-inspired furniture, bronze work, and porcelain. The resulting old, new, and reconfigured objects merged aristocratic French eighteenth-century taste with nineteenth-century British preference, and they were prized by collectors, who displayed them side by side in palatial interiors of the period. The Tastemakers analyzes dealer-made furnishings from the nineteenth-century patron’s perspective and in the context of the interiors for which they were created, contending that early dealers deliberately formulated a new aesthetic with its own objects, language, and value. Davis examines a wide variety of documents to piece together the shadowy world of these dealers, who emerge center stage as a traders, makers, and tastemakers.

Author : J. Paul Getty Museum,Gillian Wilson,Charissa Bremer-David,Jeffrey Weaver
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Art
ISBN : 0892368748

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French Furniture and Gilt Bronzes by J. Paul Getty Museum,Gillian Wilson,Charissa Bremer-David,Jeffrey Weaver Pdf

"Each object is described and analyzed in terms of its provenance and published history, as well as its construction, materials, and conservation. With its painstaking attention to detail, this volume is the definitive catalogue of the Getty Museum's collection of French Baroque furniture and will be of interest to scholars, conservators, and all students of French decorative arts."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Stacey Pierson
Publisher : Hong Kong University Press
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2013-01-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9789888139835

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From Object to Concept by Stacey Pierson Pdf

Ming porcelain is widely regarded among the world's finest cultural treasures. From ordinary household items patiently refined for imperial use, porcelain became a dynamic force in domestic consumption in China and a valuable commodity in export trade. In the modern era, it has reached unprecedented heights in art auctions and other avenues of global commerce. This book examines the impact of consumption on the evolution of porcelain and its transformation into a foreign cultural icon. The book begins with an examination of ways in which porcelain was appreciated in Ming China, followed by a discussion of encounters with Ming porcelain in several global regions including Europe and the Americas. The book also looks at the invention of the phrase and concept of 'the Ming vase' in English-speaking cultures and concludes with a history of the transformation of Ming porcelain into works of art.

Author : EmilyByrne Curtis
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781351565479

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"Glass Exchange between Europe and China, 1550?800 " by EmilyByrne Curtis Pdf

In this study, Emily Byrne Curtis explores as her subject lenses, spectacles, aventurine glass, and windows found in China from the sixteenth century. She traces their technological development back to the glassworks in Murano, Venice, and explores their significance in terms of Venice's commerce with China. Because glassware also figured among the gifts which three papal legates from the Vatican presented to the Kangxi and Yongzheng emperors, the author examines many documents from the archives in Rome and the Vatican; the study therefore touches, to an extent, on the history of the Catholic Church in China. Curtis also discusses in the volume some contemporary Chinese references and verses to European glassware, and in the case of enamel materials, she discloses the pronounced effect their use had upon the decor of Chinese porcelains.