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The Complete Chinese Ornament: All 100 Color Plates
Par Jones Owen
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During the vast political tumult in China in the 19th century, many of the most exquisite examples of native art from the Ming, Ch'ing and earlier dynasties were spirited out of the country and sold into Western collections. One of the most spectacular of these assemblages was housed at London's South Kensington Museum (today The Victoria and Albert Museum). In the 1860s, the noted English designer and architect Owen Jones studed this collection in depth, particularly the wealth of superb examples of porcelain and cloisonné. He then meticulously rendered many of the most intriguing and beautiful designs in full color. These were published in his celebrated book, Examples of Chinese Ornament Selected from Objects in the South Kensington Museum and Other Collections (1867).
This volume offers painstaking reproductions of all one hundred original color plates from that work, which delighted the art world of the time and exerted a profound influence on the subsequent history of Western design. Now that visual inspiration is once again available to artists, illustrators, designers, and craftspeople in this inexpensive high-quality edition. Moreover, any lover of fine art can enjoy the book as a splendid tribute to the glories of Chinese design—at a price far less than those commanded by extremely rare surviving copies of Jones's original work.
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The Complete Chinese Ornament - Jones Owen
DOVER PICTORIAL ARCHIVE SERIES
ART DECO JEWELRY DESIGNS IN FULL COLOR, Idées-Paris. (27694-5)
381 OLD-FASHIONED HOLIDAY VIGNETTES IN FULL COLOR, Carol Belanger Grafton (ed.). (27686–4)
1,001 ADVERTISING CUTS FROM THE TWENTIES AND THIRTIES, Leslie Cabarga et al. (ed.). (25490-9)
TRADITIONAL JAPANESE DESIGN MOTIFS, Joseph D’Addetta. (24629-9)
BORDERS, FRAMES AND DECORATIVE MOTIFS FROM THE 1862 DERRIEY TYPOGRAPHIC CATALOG, Charles Derriey. (25322-8)
THE ENSCHEDE CATALOG OF TYPOGRAPHIC BORDERS AND ORNAMENTS: AN UNABRIDGED REPRINT OF THE CLASSIC 1891 EDITION, John Enschede and Sons. (25172-1)
ART NOUVEAU: AN ANTHOLOGY OF DESIGN AND ILLUSTRATION FROM THE STUDIO
, selected by Edmund V. Gillon, Jr. (22388-4)
PICTURE SOURCEBOOK FOR COLLAGE AND DECOUPAGE, Edmund V. Gillon, Jr. (ed.). (23095-3)
DECORATIVE TILE DESIGNS IN FULL COLOR, Carol Belanger Grafton (ed.). (26952-3)
MORE SILHOUETTES, Carol Belanger Grafton (ed.). (24256-0)
OLD-TIME VIGNETTES IN FULL COLOR,