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Objects in frames: displaying foreign collectibles in Early Modern China and Europe

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Anna Grasskamp investigates display practices of the sixteenth and seventeenth century in China and Europe providing an in-depth analysis of the processes through which foreign artifacts and natural objects were framed in early modern collections. While the first two chapters focus on the appropriation of artifacts through the examples of porcelain vessels and scientific instruments in metal mounts, the book's later chapters analyze the staging of foreign nature in Renaissance and Ming collecting through the case of coral.

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    Berlin: Dietrich Reimer Verlag, 2019

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    1550-1700

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    • 9783496016243
    • 3496016248

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    • Objects in frames --- porcelain in frames: the Europeanization of Chinese ceramics through sixteenth-century metal mounts --- staging the foreign: global arts at Emperor Kangxi's observatory --- framing foreign nature: coral fragments between form and figure, potential images and potential spaces --- curating foreign nature: coral specimens on display in late Ming visual and material culture --- conclusion: displaying collectibles in early modern China and Europe.
    • This book was developed out of a PhD dissertation, Leiden University 2013

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