Jorge Welsh (ed.) — European Scenes on Chinese Art

Book New Dust Jacket Included 1st Edition Jorge Welsh Books English text; Hardcover (with dust jacket), 256 pages, 168 colour illustrations, 28 black and white illustrations; 21 x 30 cm; 1.5 Kg; May show signs of shelf wear.; Exhibition catalogue.; Featuring 70 examples of Chinese works of art that bear European scenes, some previously unrecorded, this exhibition catalogue traces the beginnings and the development of the representation of European scenes on Chinese works of art produced between the Kangxi (1662-1722) and the Jiaqing (1796-1820) periods. In many instances, this catalogue offers a fascinating comparison of a particular European Scene depicted on a piece of porcelain or work of art alongside the original source copied by the Chinese Artists.