More About The Mongols: Chinese Porcelain From Asia To Europe

Carswell, John

doi:10.1080/03068370500039029

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Arresting Mobility: Chinese Porcelain In the 1493 Inventory1

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“…20 In the Asian context, vessels' shapes were altered to accommodate new dining practices. 21 It is likely that in Europe the perceived magical properties of porcelain worked in tandem with the beliefs in the medicinal properties of the spices it held, alluded to in contemporary images of the Magi who often carry their gold, frankincense and myrrh in receptacles in a range of materials, including Chinese porcelain (Fig. 1).…”

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The peregrinations of porcelain

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2019

Journal of the History of Collections

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The Medici of Florence have long been acknowledged as possessing the largest collection of Chinese porcelain in the fifteenth century, but this article reveals that in fact Eleonora d’Aragona, Duchess of Ferrara had the largest such collection in Italy at this time. In fifteenth-century Europe, porcelain came not directly from China but rather through trade and diplomacy with foreign courts, so that its peregrinations gave rise to entangled histories and reception. Taking porcelain as a case-study, it is argued here that examining collecting through the lens of trade and diplomacy provides new interpretations of – and demands new approaches to – the history of collecting.

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Section: Arresting Mobility: Chinese Porcelain In the 1493 Inventorymentioning

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The peregrinations of porcelain

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