Chinese Export Painting in the Collection of the National Library of Russia

Natalia Alferova () and Anna Tarasenko ()
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Natalia Alferova: National Research University Higher School of Economics
Anna Tarasenko: National Research University Higher School of Economics

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Abstract: Throughout history Chinese artistic culture has developed a fairly complex system of diverse art forms and styles. Chinese export art, being created particularly to satiate constantly growing appetite of the Western world for Chinese goods, holds a specific place among them. In spite of being considered as insignificant in terms of artistic merits, nevertheless, Chinese export painting succeeded to cover a modest segment in the European market in the XVIII – XIX centuries. Unlike most other types of Chinese decorative and applied arts, Chinese export painting until recently has never been taken as a subject of scientific research. The collection of the National Library of Russia possesses a number of Chinese painting albums. Comprehensive study of these art works might bridge lacunas for research of other multitudinous kinds of Chinese export arts and crafts of the XVIII-XIX centuries

Keywords: Chinese export painting; 19th century China; collection of the National Library of Russia; Canton; watercolors on pith; Tetrapanax papirifer; wove paper; laid paper; Whatman. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Z19 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 25 pages
Date: 2015
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Published in WP BRP Series: Humanities / HUM, November 2015, pages-25

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