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Silk.(silk textiles )
Eighteenth-century Europeans of means were the ultimate consumers, and they were particularly captivated by luxurious and exotic goods, including Chinese silks. Both the French and the British began trading with China starting in the late seventeenth century and of all the commodities imported, silk was one of the most desirable and profitable. As textiles were the most expensive of all household items, sure signs of wealth and status were imported silk window curtains for sumptuous interiors, and silk dresses in the latest fashion. The ornamental motifs on Chinese silks, lacquerwork, and porcelain were borrowed by textile designers in Europe providing for local consumption in the style now known as chinoiserie.
The Philadelphia Museum of Art has drawn on its large and important collection of textiles and costumes for a small exhibition entitled The Bizarre and the Beautiful: Silks of the Eighteenth Century. It examines the development in Europe of what are known as bizarre silks, which are defined by their juxtaposition of various patterns and the use of fantastical imagery. The show, which is on view until the spring of 2007, comprises fifteen examples ...
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...age as "The Restoration and Eighteenth Century." That awkward compound has given way to "The Long Eighteenth Century," but is this a period at...really be called "The Long Eighteenth Century," or might we divide the...
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