chinoiserie

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• Based on a Korean fairy-tale, this light and witty piece of chinoiserie tells the story of a Mandarin's daughter who is engaged to a rich Ambassador but loves an impoverished youth.
• A passion for Chinese motifs - chinoiserie - preceded and paved the way.
• As the taste for chinoiserie flourished, textiles such as chintz, wallpapers, screens and cabinets freely incorporated Asian motifs both real and imagined.
• Pagoda Trellis is based on a fragment of a silk panel hand painted in France in the eighteenth century in response to the European rage for chinoiserie that pervaded every aspect of interior decoration.
• The Parnassians contributed to the cultivation of this taste for chinoiserie.
• “Chinoiserie” (meaning bizarre tricks or monkey - shines in modern French usage) is a term descriptive of the eighteenth-century European view of China as Dictionary of the History of Ideas
• The interiors are all original chinoiseries and stained glass, oil paintings, Meissen porcelain, taffeta and silk.
• With French and German influences came chinoiserie, which was first introduced in the Palazzo Reale in Turin, and would spread all the way to Palermo.
• Reber suggested that the artist may have been interpreting (albeit very loosely) some engravings by Jean Pillement, whose chinoiseries were quite widely known at the time, but this is difficult to confirm.
• As for the George II Chinoiserie giltwood overmantel mirror by sold by Christie's New York on 3 June, it had it all.