A Millennium of Monochromes

From the Great Tang to the High Qing - The Baur and the Zhuyuetang Collections

A Millennium of Monochromes
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A Millennium of Monochromes - From the Great Tang to the High Qing
The Baur and the Zhuyuetang Collections
391 pages
Color photos
Hard cover
28 x 21 cm
2,216 kg
English

More than any other civilisation, China has won renown through its long tradition of ceramic production, from its terracotta and stoneware works in ancient times to the imperial porcelain manufactured at Jingdezhen from the end of the fourteenth century. These refined works have always been admired and collected for their outstanding quality.
Two hundred masterpieces from prominent private collections around the world have been brought together for the first time in this book.
The Baur collections in Geneva, formed between 1928 and 1951, and the Zhuyuetang collection (the Bamboo and Moon Pavilion in Hong Kong), which has been built up since the late 1980s, reveal the elegance and variety of imperial monochrome porcelain wares produced during the Ming (1368-1644) and Qing (1644-1911) dynasties, which followed on from the Tang (618-907) and Song (960-1279) periods.
These apparently restrained pieces, which partake of both the profane and the sacred, testify the return to the values of simplicity and modesty advocated by classical texts.
With chapters dedicated to situating the works in their historical, cultural and technical contexts, this book is an absolute reference on Chinese monochrome ceramics for all lovers of the subject, as well as students, researchers and connoisseurs.