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Books and price guides have been published about Hummel figurines. [15] Some of these works supported the secondary market interest of collector speculators; The Official M.I. Hummel Price Guide: Figurines and Plates, 2nd Edition, by Heidi Ann Von Recklinghausen is a current price guide, published in 2013.
Seal "Meiyintang", carved by the Taiwanese artist Xiao Yu (b. 1947) Object from the Meiyintang Collection at Rietberg Museum The Meiyintang Collection is a privately owned assembly of Chinese ceramics, porcelain and bronzes, which has been hailed as one of the finest private collections of Chinese porcelain in the Western world.
A china fairing is a small porcelain ornament, often incorporating figures, ranging from about three inches (7.5 cm) to about five inches (12.5 cm) in height, and depicting a variety of scenes, humorous, political or domestic. The ornament almost always incorporates a base and many fairings have a caption describing the scene or making some ...
Porcelain was a Chinese invention and is so identified with China that it is still called "china" in everyday English usage. Pair of famille rose vases with landscapes of the four seasons, 1760–1795. Most later Chinese ceramics, even of the finest quality, were made on an industrial scale, thus few names of individual potters were recorded.
A selection of falangcai porcelains Bowl with peacock in falangcai painted enamels, Yongzheng reign. National Palace Museum. The origin of famille rose is not entirely clear. It is believed that this colour palette was introduced to the Imperial court in China by Jesuits, achieved through the use of purple of Cassius, initially on enamels used on metal wares such as cloisonné produced in the ...
Famille rose enamels were known to have been used in Europe before its usage became established in China, for example in Vienna porcelain made by the Du Paquier factory in 1725. [9] Large number of famille rose porcelains were exported from China to the West, and many European factories such as Meissen , Chelsea and Chantilly copied the famille ...
Canton or Cantonese porcelain is the characteristic style of ceramic ware decorated in Guangzhou, the capital of Guangdong and (prior to 1842) the sole legal port for export of Chinese goods to Europe. As such, it was one of the major forms of exportware produced in China in the 18th and 20th centuries.
Under the Kangxi Emperor's reign (1662–1722) the Chinese porcelain industry, now largely concentrated at Jingdezhen was reorganised and the export trade soon flourished again. Chinese export porcelain from the late 17th century included blue-and-white and famille verte wares (and occasionally famille noire and famille jaune). Wares included ...