Cloisonné: Chinese enamels from the Yuan, Ming, and Qing dynasties

Abstract

Beatrice Quette is head of adult education at Les Arts Décoratifs, Paris. --Book Jacket.

Contents

The emergence of cloisonné enamels in China / Béatrice Quette -- Inscriptions and marks / Béatrice Quette -- Cloisonné form and decoration from the Yuan through the Qing dynasty / Béatrice Quette -- Beyond the women's quarters : meaning and function of cloisonné in the Ming and Qing dynasties / Pengliang Lu -- A reverence for the past : influences from Chinese antiquity / Rose Kerr -- Auspicious messages on cloisonné vessels / Terese Tse Bartholomew -- Scholar Zhang peeks at Yingying : thoughts on pictorial aspects of Chinese cloisonné and the relationship with painting / Claudia Brown -- Cloisonné for the imperial courts / Zhang Rong -- The revival of cloisonné enamel in France at the end of the nineteenth century / Odile Nouvel-Kammerer -- Early collections and displays of Chinese cloisonné enamel in Europe and the United States, 1860-1930 / Susan Weber -- Catalogue of the Exhibition / Béatrice Quette -- A technical study of early Chinese enamels / Isabelle Biron and Béatrice Quette.