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"The World into the World: Examination of Chinese Porcelain": Chinese porcelain written by the French in the 19th century

Modern Express News (reporter Zheng Wenjing Zhang Wenying) Recently, the famous 19th-century French collector and scholar Otto · German · The Chinese translation of Sadele's book "Chinese Porcelain Examination", "Ware into the World: Chinese Porcelain Examination", was officially published and distributed by Guangxi Normal University Press.

"The World into the World: Examination of Chinese Porcelain": Chinese porcelain written by the French in the 19th century

Otto · German · Born in 1832, Sadère was a leading 19th-century French collector and scholar with an in-depth study of oriental porcelain. Published in 1881, "Examination of Chinese Porcelain" is one of his masterpieces. The book clearly restores the spread, collection and influence of Chinese porcelain culture in the Western world, fills the gap in the study of Western Chinese porcelain at that time, and was a sensation in France, and won the highest honor of the Sinology class in the second year of publication - "Ru Lian Award", which is a rare work on Chinese artifacts among the award-winning works. Today, "Chinese Porcelain Examination" has become a classic general reading book of Chinese porcelain culture that is well-known in Europe.

China is the hometown of porcelain, porcelain is also a symbol of China, it is through the export of Overseas Chinese ceramics, the whole of Europe to blow up a "China fever" wave, Westerners began to understand China, yearn for China, and then to carry out exchanges with China.

How did the French write Chinese porcelain in the 19th century? In the book, Sadère made a meticulous investigation of porcelain from different periods in China, elaborating on the technical details of porcelain firing, introducing the types of porcelain and the theme of ornamentation. More importantly, he also explores the spread of oriental porcelain in Europe, and the history of European imitation of oriental porcelain. In addition, this book is the first catalogue of Chinese ceramics published in the West in the 19th century, containing pictures and descriptions of the collections of several famous European collectors.

The Chinese translation of "Ware into the World: Examination of Chinese Porcelain" is divided into four chapters: "The Origin of Chinese Porcelain", "The Firing, Ornamentation and Recognition of Porcelain", "Chinese Porcelain in Europe", and "Porcelain Description and Era Division". With craftsmanship as the main line, history, culture, art, aesthetics, collection and appreciation as the context, in the transformation of light and shadow between mud and fire, readers will see many oriental porcelains from the Western world. They are porcelain, but also Chinese history; they are doctrines, and they are the crystallization of the great wisdom of the Chinese people.

(Courtesy of publisher)

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