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A Winterthur Guide to Chinese Export Porcelain
A Winterthur Guide to Chinese Export Porcelain Author:Arlene M. Palmer This book consists of representative examples from the Winterthur collection hat have been selected and arranged to present a general introduction to the subject of Chinese export porcelain. Chinese porcelain was the delight, if not the passion, of Europe's soul in the eighteenth century. — More than 50 million pieces of porcelain reached the... more » West before 1800, creating and filling a need for tablewares and orame4nts and stimulating European production of imitative ceramics. As symbols of "the most remarkable of all countries yet known,": a country that few had actually seen, the creations of the Chinese potters never ceased to fascinate.« less