‘Sensitive Plates’ and ‘Sentimental Keepsakes’The social life of reverse glass paintings: From Canton to Leiden
Chinese export painting had a strong appeal to foreign powers active in China and neighbouring Asian countries in the late eighteenth and mid-nineteenth centuries. As a result, today, Chinese export paintings can be found in eighteen public col- lections in the Netherlands. These collections have an...
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| Published in: | Review of Culture |
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| Format: | Articles |
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Instituto Cultural de Macau
2019
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| Online Access: | https://www.icm.gov.mo/rc/viewer/pdfViewerParts/40059/2647 |
| Summary: | Chinese export painting had a strong appeal to foreign powers active in China and neighbouring Asian countries in the late eighteenth and mid-nineteenth centuries. As a result, today, Chinese export paintings can be found in eighteen public col- lections in the Netherlands. These collections have an historic, an artistic, and a material value and are closely related to the overseas historical China trade, either brought back by VOC employees, private merchants, diplomats or government workers. These integrated economic relations produced, among other things, integrated art objects such as paintings, which, as a result of their representative and social functions, over time formed a special artistic phenomenon, and a shared cultural visual repertoire with its own (EurAsian) character. |
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| ISSN: | 1682-1106 |