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Decorative Arts, Part II: Far Eastern Ceramics and Paintings; Persian and Indian Rugs and Carpets
This volume explores a group of the Gallery's decorative arts, mainly drawn from the renowned collections of the Widener and Steele families. The focus of the catalogue is on the collection of Chinese ceramics, which ranges from earthenware and stoneware to polychrome procelain, with a concentration on pieces from the Qing dynasty (1644-1722). The carpets from Lynnewood Hall, P.A.B. Widener's home in Pennsylvania, are also catalogued and published here for the first time.
344 pages, Hardcover
First published August 6, 1998
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Virginia L. Bower
4 booksSee also: Virginia Bower for works on Early Years Education.
Virginia L. Bower is an adjunct associate at The University of the Arts in Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
Bower did her graduate work in Chinese art and archaeology at Princeton University. Her special interests are Chinese ceramics and the arts of the Han-Tang dynasties. A resident of Princeton, N.J., she is a frequent speaker at museums and schools throughout North America.
She has contributed to numerous museum catalogues, among them Brush, Clay, and Wood: The Nancy and Ed Rosenthal Collection of Chinese Art, an exhibition at the Taft Museum in Cincinnati, Ohio, in 2008; Recarving China’s Past: Art, Archaeology, and Architecture of the “Wu Family Shrines,” an exhibition at the Princeton University Art Museum in 2005; and Asian Games: The Art of Contest, The Asia Society, New York, 2004.
She has also contributed to books such as Sunnylands: Art and Architecture of the Annenberg Estate in Rancho Mirage, California, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2010.
Ms. Bower first visited China in 1980, acting as a tour lecturer on a trip sponsored by the Princeton University Art Museum. Since then she has returned to China many times, most recently in 2015.
Virginia L. Bower is an adjunct associate at The University of the Arts in Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
Bower did her graduate work in Chinese art and archaeology at Princeton University. Her special interests are Chinese ceramics and the arts of the Han-Tang dynasties. A resident of Princeton, N.J., she is a frequent speaker at museums and schools throughout North America.
She has contributed to numerous museum catalogues, among them Brush, Clay, and Wood: The Nancy and Ed Rosenthal Collection of Chinese Art, an exhibition at the Taft Museum in Cincinnati, Ohio, in 2008; Recarving China’s Past: Art, Archaeology, and Architecture of the “Wu Family Shrines,” an exhibition at the Princeton University Art Museum in 2005; and Asian Games: The Art of Contest, The Asia Society, New York, 2004.
She has also contributed to books such as Sunnylands: Art and Architecture of the Annenberg Estate in Rancho Mirage, California, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2010.
Ms. Bower first visited China in 1980, acting as a tour lecturer on a trip sponsored by the Princeton University Art Museum. Since then she has returned to China many times, most recently in 2015.
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June 21, 2020
A beautiful book, very well constructed and illustrated, very clear . What amazed me is the modernity od the forms, the shapes, the colors.
the different experiments they must have done to reach this perfection. A discovey for me, , because before this book, when I thought of chinese ceramics, I thought of heavily painted vases, or the white and blue, but I discovered such variety, finesse and Art.
the different experiments they must have done to reach this perfection. A discovey for me, , because before this book, when I thought of chinese ceramics, I thought of heavily painted vases, or the white and blue, but I discovered such variety, finesse and Art.
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