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Chinese export porcelain from the Leo and Doris Hodroff Collection at Winterthur. (Winterthur).(Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum)
According to Daniel Defoe (1661?-1731), Mary II of England (r. 1689-1694) was one of the first collectors of Chinese export porcelain in that country. He credited, or blamed, her for beginning
the custom or bumour of furnishing houses with China-ware, which spread to lesser mortals and increased to such a strange degree afterwards, piling their China upon the tops of Cabinets, Scrutores and every Chymney-Piece... till it became a grievance in the Expence of it and even injurious to their Families and Estates. (1)
Mary was one of many in a long line of connoisseurs and collectors captivated by the allure of Chinese export porcelain. In the seventeenth and ...
- Made in China: Export Porcelain from the Leo and Doris Hodroff Collection at...
- Magazine article from: The Magazine Antiques April 1, 2005 700+ words
Made in China: Export Porcelain from the Leo and Doris Hodroff Collection at Winterthur By Ronald W. Fuchs II and David...highlights more than one hundred pieces of Chinese export porcelain recently donated to the Winterthur Museum in Winterthur...
- Made in China: Export Porcelain from the Leo and Doris Hodroff Collection at...
- Magazine article from: The Magazine Antiques May 1, 2005 700+ words
Made in China: Export Porcelain from the Leo and Doris Hodroff Collection at Winterthur By Ronald W. Fuchs II and David...highlights more than one hundred pieces of Chinese export porcelain recently donated to the Winterthur Museum in Winterthur...
- Made in China: Export Porcelain from the Leo and Doris Hodroff Collection at...
- Magazine article from: Reference & Research Book News November 1, 2005 700+ words
0912724641 Made in China; export porcelain from the Leo and Doris Hodroff collection at Winterthur. Fuchs, Ronald W. Henry Francis duPontWinterthur 2005 208 pages $50.00 Hardcover A Winterthur book NK4565 Chinese...
- Chinese export porcelain with Arabic inscriptions.
- Magazine article from: The Magazine Antiques NADLER, DANIEL March 1, 2000 700+ words
...had levied a 150 percent import duty on porcelain from China. Little has been written about nineteenth-century Chinese export porcelain. Even the decade-long stoppage caused by the Taiping Rebellion (1854-1865) has been almost unnoticed. This rebellion...
- The allure of Chinese export porcelain.
- News wire article from: United Press International March 28, 2003 700+ words
NEW YORK, Mar 28, 2003 (United Press International via COMTEX) The importance of Chinese export porcelain in the homes of the founders of the American republic is a part of a romance retold by a Metropolitan Museum exhibition of hundreds...
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- Magazine article from: Town & Country TE WINKLE, KIMBERLEY October 1, 2000 700+ words
...George III mahogany Cockpen chairs, estimated at $12,000 to $18,000. On the same day, Sotheby's puts up Chinese export porcelain from the collection of the late Mildred R. and Rafi Y. Mottahedeh, highlighted by a pair of 18th-century Chinese carved...
- Eighteenth-century Chinese export porcelain for the French market.
- Magazine article from: The Magazine Antiques Lebel, Antoine March 1, 2005 700+ words
Jean Baptiste Colbert (1619-1683), Louis XIV's minister of finance, founded the Compagnie des Indes orientales, or French East India Company, in 1664. Two years later he ordered the construction of the port of L'Orient (now Lorient) (1) on the Atlantic Coast from which to develop a regular trade
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- Magazine article from: The Magazine Antiques Luhrs, Kathleen September 1, 2006 700+ words
...October 31. [??] "Made in China: Export Porcelain from the Leo and Doris Hodroff Collection at Winterthur [Delaware]"; to September...East to West: 'Quaker Farmer' Chinese Export Porcelain in America"; to October 28.* Folger...
Source: HighBeam Research, Chinese export porcelain from the Leo and Doris Hodroff Collection at...