‘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
Main Author: Rosalien van der Poel
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Published: Instituto Cultural de Macau 2019
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description 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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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.
Instituto Cultural de Macau
Macau
Review of Culture
Articles
2019
Chinese export paintings
Commodities.
Exchange
Qing dynasty
Reverse glass paintings
Value assignment
Rosalien van der Poel
spellingShingle ‘Sensitive Plates’ and ‘Sentimental Keepsakes’The social life of reverse glass paintings: From Canton to Leiden
Rosalien van der Poel
Chinese export paintings
Commodities.
Exchange
Qing dynasty
Reverse glass paintings
Value assignment
title ‘Sensitive Plates’ and ‘Sentimental Keepsakes’The social life of reverse glass paintings: From Canton to Leiden
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title_short ‘Sensitive Plates’ and ‘Sentimental Keepsakes’The social life of reverse glass paintings: From Canton to Leiden
title_sort ‘sensitive plates’ and ‘sentimental keepsakes’the social life of reverse glass paintings: from canton to leiden
topic Chinese export paintings
Commodities.
Exchange
Qing dynasty
Reverse glass paintings
Value assignment
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Commodities.
Exchange
Qing dynasty
Reverse glass paintings
Value assignment
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Commodities.
Exchange
Qing dynasty
Reverse glass paintings
Value assignment
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