246 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), portraits ; 25 cm
Notes:
Based on author's dissertation (PhD.) -- Leiden University, 2013
Bibliographic Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-235) and index
Contents:
Objects in frames --- porcelain in frames: the Europeanization of Chinese ceramics through sixteenth-century metal mounts --- staging the foreign: global arts at Emperor Kangxi's observatory --- framing foreign nature: coral fragments between form and figure, potential images and potential spaces --- curating foreign nature: coral specimens on display in late Ming visual and material culture --- conclusion: displaying collectibles in early modern China and Europe
Summary:
Anna Grasskamp investigates display practices of the sixteenth and seventeenth century in China and Europe. The book provides an in-depth analysis of the processes through which foreign artifacts and natural objects were framed in early modern collections. Material exchanges between China and Europe have a long history in which complex culturally defined processes of object appropriation play a role. Anna Grasskamp investigates display practices of the sixteenth and seventeenth century in China and Europe providing an in-depth analysis of the processes through which foreign artifacts and natural objects were framed in early modern collections. While the first two chapters focus on the appropriation of artifacts through the examples of porcelain vessels and scientific instruments in metal mounts, the books later chapters analyze the staging of foreign nature in Renaissance and Ming collecting through the case of coral