Chinese Porcelain in the Czech Aristocratic Collections of the 17th, 18th and 19th Century

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Result on the web

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.7767/9783205207139.153" target="_blank" >10.7767/9783205207139.153</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Chinese Porcelain in the Czech Aristocratic Collections of the 17th, 18th and 19th Century

Original language description

The article deals with the topic of Chinese Porcelain, which is a significant phenomenon in the Modern European Period, and with the development of porcelain collections in Central Europe, chiefly in Bohemian lands and Moravia. An interest in exoticism aroused by the new overseas discoveries could be seen here only a little later than in the south and west of Europe, and it resulted in the establishment of the first collections that included non-European artefacts. It was the Roman Emperor Rudolf II who accumulated a number of rarities and curiosities in his “Kunstkammer”, including a collection – a very unique one at that time – of weapons, Asian lacquers, blue and white wares, mostly colored Chinese porcelain and so on. Another very important collection of Oriental porcelain was assembled by Franziska Sibyla Augusta von Sachsen-Lauenburg in her Bohemian castle in Ostrov nad Ohří in 1690s.The collection contained quite large number of Chinese porcelain objects of various shapes. In the beginning of the 18th century the number of aristocratic collections containing oriental porcelain rapidly increased in Bohemia and Moravia. One of the most important set of porcelain objects was collected by Jan Václav Gallas, a former ambassador of the Austrian Empire in England. Another one was located in Duchcov castle, a property of Wallenstein family in Northern Bohemia where hundreds of Chinese porcelains were preserved and displayed at special arrangements.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

C - Chapter in a specialist book

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

60401 - Arts, Art history

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2018

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Book/collection name

Investigation and Conservation of East Asian Cabinets in Imperial Residences (1700-1900)

ISBN

978-3-205-20501-2

Number of pages of the result

14

Pages from-to

153-166

Number of pages of the book

373

Publisher name

Böhlau Verlag

Place of publication

Wien

UT code for WoS chapter

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