‘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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| 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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| spelling | ‘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 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 |
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