Beginning in the sixteenth century when Portuguese traders started importing blue and white porcelain to Europe, Chinese ceramics manufacturers produced goods s

Adopting the perspective of anthropology of art and combining it with global academic insights, this book helps the readers to recognize that “history is, in

"Features Chinese porcelains exported to Europe, Southeast Asia, and the Middle East between the fourteenth and nineteenth centuries, with color photographs, it

This book explores the relationship between collecting Chinese ceramics, interior design and display in Britain through the eyes of collectors, designers and ta

The complex interweaving of different Western visions of China had a profound impact on artistic exchange between China and the West during the nineteenth centu