A passion for porcelain : essays in honour of Meredith Chilton /
A Passion for Porcelain' brings together papers delivered at an international symposium held in 2018 at the Gardiner Museum, Toronto (CA), in honour of Meredith Chilton, C.M., one of the foremost scholars and curators of eighteenth-century European porcelain. Authored by leading scholars in the...
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Stuttgart : Toronto :
Arnoldsche ; Gardiner Museum,
[2020]
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| ISBN: | 9783897905849 3897905841 |
Table of Contents:
- Preface / Sequoia Miller
- Foreword / Meredith Chilton, C.M.
- Celebrating Meredith Chilton, C.M. / Karine Tsoumis and Vanessa Sigalas
- Travels across the Atlantic. A formidable assembly: the Katz collection of English porcelain at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston / Thomas S. Michie
- A refined taste: porcelain collecting in English Canada / Peter Kaellgren
- Travels through France. The elephant in the boudoir: modelling nature at Chantilly / Karine Tsoumis
- Sèvres porcelain enhancements: two plaques for an almanac of 1756 / Rosalind Savill
- Honouring the past: Sèvres and Bernard Palissy / Jeffrey Munger
- Taxile Doat (1851-1938): artist and alchemist / Linda Roth
- Travels through Japan. Gifts worthy of the Shogun: Nabeshima porcelain in the Macdonald collection / Daniel Chen
- Travels through Germany & Austria. Always up to date: porcelain at the Munich court / Katharina Hantschmann
- Precious beggars: ivory and porcelain sculpture at the Dresden court / Vanessa Sigalas
- "Porcelain à la mode": the eighteenth-century collections of the Baden princesses / Sebastian Kuhn
- Flights of imagination: Claudius Innocentius du Paquier and the tastes of his patrons / Claudia Lehner-Jobst.