Chinese ceramics / Stacey Pierson.

By:

Pierson, Stacey

Contributor(s):

Victoria and Albert Museum

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: London : V&A ; New York, NY : Harry N. Abrams [distributor], 2009.Description: 144 p. : ill. (some col.), col. map ; 28 cm. + hbkISBN:

9781851775767
1851775765

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

738.0951 PIE

Contents:

Production: manufacturing and industry -- Blue and white -- Aesthetics: design and style -- Decoration and meaning: dragons -- Consumption: China and beyond -- Vessels for tea and wine -- Ritual and religion -- -- Intersections: trade and transfer -- Global trade: evidence from shipwrecks -- Beyond vessels: Chinese ceramics in the modern world.

Holdings
Item type	Current library	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Standard Loan	LSAD Library Main Collection	738.0951 PIE (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available		39002100576942

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Chinese ceramics are among the most widely admired and collected in the world. From elegant Song celadons to decorative Ming vases and colourful Qing famille rose, ceramics produced in China have influenced art and daily life all over the world. This new design history draws on the V and A's comprehensive collection to look at the production, consumption, aesthetics and transfer of Chinese ceramics. Stunning new photography illustrates more than 200 pieces, including previously unpublished objects. It also explores ceramics made in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, from Republican period porcelain to propaganda ware and studio pottery, a first for any survey history of the subject.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 140-141) and index.

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Stacey Pierson is Lecturer in the History of Chinese Ceramics at the School of Oriental and African Studies, London. She was previously Curator of the Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art which housed one of the foremost collections of Chinese ceramics outside China. She has published widely on the subject and is currently working on a cultural history of the Ming vase.