This volume is an excellent reference guide to the historical and cultural significance of Chinese toggles or zhuizi - carved pieces of jade, ivory, bone, wood, shell and semi-precious stones used by the Chinese in ancient times as counterweights to secure personal effects like tobacco pipes and money pouches to their belts. Over time, toggles became treasured objects of identity and expression, believed to bring the bearer good luck, happiness, fertility, longevity and health. Accompanied by stunning photography and detailed descriptions, Traditional Chinese Toggles: Counterweights and Charms will be the definitive illustrative guide to this little-known Chinese art form.

English - 272 Pages - 25.1 cm x 2.8 cm x 30 cm - 1.9 Kg
ISBN: 9789814260619

Mille and de monochromes, Vaisselle sacrée et profane des empereurs de Chine, Les collections Baur et Zhuyuetang

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Mille ans de monochromes, Vaisselle sacrée et profane des empereurs de Chine, Les
collections Baur et Zhuyuetang
5 Continents, 2018

Les deux cents chefs-d'œuvre provenant des collections Baur à Genève et de la collection Zhuyuetang à Hong Kong, réunis ici pour la première fois, témoignent du raffinement et de la limpidité des décors et des formes de la céramique chinoise monochrome. Les productions à la sophistication jamais égalée des époques Tang et Song inspirèrent les porcelaines impériales des dynasties Ming et Qing, réalisées dans les fours de Jingdezhen du XIVe au XVIIIe siècle. Au-delà du contexte sacré ou profane qui les caractérise, par leur puissance suggestive, leur pureté et les vibrations chromatiques qui en émanent, ces oeuvres touchent à l'universel.

English/French - 400 Pages - 21.8 cm x 3.8 cm x 27.6 cm - 2.2 Kg
ISBN: 9788874398379

Early Chinese Jades in the Harvard Art Museums

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Early Chinese Jades in the Harvard Art Museums
Jenny F. So
Yale, 2019

From personal ornamentation to funerary practice, from palace decoration to private devotion, jade has played a major role in Chinese social, cultural, and political life for millennia. Exploring the history of this revered stone through the esteemed Grenville L. Winthrop Collection at the Harvard Art Museums—which includes some of the finest examples of ancient and archaizing jades outside China—this volume explains how and why jade developed its special significance. In-depth entries on over one hundred objects present recent archaeological discoveries and new information garnered from conservation analysis, while Jenny So’s broad and engaging narrative not only elucidates the layered meanings of the objects and their iconography but also delves into the unique qualities of the material and the craftsmanship involved in quarrying and working jade.

English - 360 Pages - 27.4 cm x 3.3 cm x 21.1 cm - 1.8 Kg
ISBN: 9780300237023

Chine impériale, Splendeurs de la dynastie Qing 1644-1911

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Chine impériale, Splendeurs de la dynastie Qing 1644-1911
Collectif
5 Continents, 2014

En 2014, à l’occasion de son demi-siècle d’existence, la fondation Baur, musée des Arts d’Extrême-Orient, propose au lecteur un voyage dans la Chine de la dynastie Qing, à travers les célèbres collections des musées Guimet, du Quai Branly, de l’Armée, des Arts décoratifs, du Château de Fontainebleau, de la Bibliothèque nationale de France, de la Bibliothèque de Genève, ainsi que du Victoria & Albert Museum de Londres. Cet ouvrage est principalement consacré aux empereurs Kangxi (1662-1723), Yongzheng (1723-1736) et Qianlong (1736-1796). Il évoque le pouvoir impérial et conquérant, ses rites, le rôle des jésuites dans les sciences et les arts décoratifs, les peintures de cour, les jardins secrets des empereurs mandchous, ainsi que leur rôle de mécènes et collectionneurs. Peintures et gravures impériales côtoient les soieries, les porcelaines, les jades, auxquels s’ajoutent cloisonnés, verres et livres précieux.

French - 215 Pages - 21.2 cm x 1.9 cm x 27 cm - 1.1 Kg
ISBN: 9788874396924

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China Through the Looking Glass, Fashion, Film, Art
Andrew Bolton
Metropolitan Museum of Art New York, 2015

For centuries, China’s export arts — jade, silks, porcelains, and, more recently, cinema — have fueled Western fantasies of an exotic East and served as enduring sources of inspiration for fashion. This stunning publication, which accompanied one of the most successful exhibitions in The Metropolitan Museum of Art's history, explores the influence of Chinese aesthetics on designers, including Christian Dior, Jean Paul Gaultier, Alexander McQueen, and Yves Saint Laurent. As in the game of “telephone,” the process of cultural translation transforms the source material into ingeniously original fashions that are products solely of the designers’ imaginations. In a similar way, contemporary Chinese film directors render fanciful, highly stylized evocations of various epochs in China’s history—demonstrating that China’s imagery is equally seductive to artists in the East and further inspiring today’s designers. Juxtaposing modern fashions and film stills with their forebears in fine and decorative arts and historical dress, this book reveals the rich and ongoing creative dialogue between East and West, past and present.

English - 256 Pages - 24.1 cm x 3.8 cm x 28.6 cm - 1.9 kg
ISBN: 9780300211122