From Object to Concept

Global Consumption and the Transformation of Ming Porcelain

By: Stacey Pierson

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Hardcover | 1 January 2013

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228 Pages

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25.4 x 17.78 x 1.42

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Ming porcelain is widely recognized as one of the world's finest cultural treasures. An ordinary household material refined for imperial use, porcelain became a dynamic force in China's domestic economy and a valuable commodity in export trade. In the modern era, Ming porcelain has fetched unprecedented sums at art auctions and other sites of global commerce. This book examines the impact of porcelain's consumption on Chinese development and its evolution into a foreign cultural icon. The study begins with an examination of porcelain's appreciation in Ming China from the fourteenth to the seventeenth centuries, followed by a discussion of global encounters with Ming porcelain in several world regions, including Europe and the Americas. The volume also revisits the creation of the phrase "the Ming vase" and its conceptual impact on English-speaking cultures, concluding with the gradual integration of Ming porcelain into western works of art.

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"The book has an impressive historical scope, from the 14th to the 21st century. Secondly, it ranges over a variety of interesting topics relevant to the history of a famous commodity-in addition to discussing the economic production, social use, and reception of Ming porcelain throughout the world, it has a novel and often amusing account on the treatment of Ming porcelain in modern popular UK and US culture. It presents an extensive coverage of recent English-language work on Chinese porcelain, and attempts to put the study of Ming, and by extension Chinese, porcelain in a wider conceptual framework, that of transcultural shifts in the use and meaning of art objects."
—Joseph P. McDermott, University of Cambridge

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