Made in China
Published on 12. March 2005
Book
Hardback
210 pages
978-0-912724-64-5 (ISBN)
Description
This sumptuous volume accompanies a traveling exhibition of the same name that opens at Winterthur in February 2005. The full-color volume highlights 117 exquisite export porcelain objects from the extensive Leo and Doris Hodroff Collection at Winterthur. Authors Ron Fuchs and David Howard ground their presentation with an introductory overview of the manufacture of porcelain, the history of the china trade, and the importance of export porcelain in European and American history and material culture.
Individual entries are grouped according to function: dining wares, drinking wares, household and personal utensils, and decorative wares. Each grouping is preceded by a short essay that places the objects within a historic context. An illustrated appendix addresses the coats of arms found on many of the objects, and an extensive bibliography offers supplementary readings.
Individual entries are grouped according to function: dining wares, drinking wares, household and personal utensils, and decorative wares. Each grouping is preceded by a short essay that places the objects within a historic context. An illustrated appendix addresses the coats of arms found on many of the objects, and an extensive bibliography offers supplementary readings.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Winterthur
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
180 colour, 10 B & W
Dimensions
Height: 292 mm
Width: 216 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-912724-64-5 (9780912724645)
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Persons
Ronald W. Fuchs II is the Assistant Curator of Ceramics for the Leo and Doris Hodroff Collection at Winterthur. A native of Baltimore, Maryland, he received his bachelor's degree from the College of William & Mary and his master's degree from the Winterthur Program in Early American Culture at the University of Delaware. David S. Howard, a resident of Wiltshire, England, was educated at Stowe before embarking on a twenty-five-year career in industry. An expert in the field of export porcelain, he is the author of Chinese Armorial Porcelain (1974 and 2003); A Tale of Three Cities (1997); The Choice of the Private Trader (1994); and co-author, with John Ayers, of China for the West (1978). Mr. Howard has lectured extensively, including in the United States, and was guest curator for two international exhibitions held in New York in the 1980s.