Transformative jars : Asian ceramic vessels as transcultural enclosures / [edited by] Anna Grasskamp and Anne Gerritsen.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gerritsen, Anne, editor.

Grasskamp, Anna, editor.

ProQuest ebook central

Series:

Material culture of art and design

Material Culture of Art and Design

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Pottery, Asian.

Vases.

Ceramics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (272 pages).

Place of Publication:

London [England] : Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2022.

Contents:

Chapter 0. Transformative Jars: An Introduction / Anna Grasskamp, Hong Kong Baptist University Anne Gerritsen, University of Warwick and Leiden University

Part I. Transformative Matters: Ceramic Vessels, Chemistry and Socio-Economic Change. Chapter 1. Dreams of Transformation: A 14th-century Flask from Cizhou / Anne Gerritsen, University of Warwick and Leiden University ; Chapter 2. Jars that Cheered: Alcohol and Stoneware Containers in Java before 1500 / Jiri Jakl, University of Heidelberg

Part II. Transformative Spaces: Ceramic Vessels and Asian Locations. Chapter 3. Siamese Jars and their Significance in Southeast-Asian Trade from the 14th to the 18th Century / Atthasit Sukkham, Bangkok University ; Chapter 4. Weaving Networks: Production and Exchange of Ceramic Jars in South China and Vietnam from the 14th to the 16th Century / Wong Wai-yee Sharon, Chinese University of Hong Kong

Part III. Transcultural Enclosures: Containers and their Contents in Global Context. Chapter 5. For Oil, Date Syrup and the Tomb of a Chinese Queen: The Reciprocal Trade in Chinese and West Asian Jars in the Late Tang/Early Abbasid Periods / Eva Strèober, Curator Emerita, National Museum of Ceramics Princessehof Leeuwarden ; Chapter 6. Translocation and Transformation: The Lives of Chinese Fishbowls in the Early Modern Period / Wen-ting Wu, independent scholar

Part IV. Transformative Containers: Individual Jars and Modes of Agency. Chapter 7. The Jars Have Ears: Circulation and Proliferation of Chinese Prototype Container Jars and their Offspring in Asia / Louise Cort, Curator Emerita for Ceramics, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution ; Chapter 8. Dragons in Flux: A Changing Relationship between People and Jars in the Kelabit Highlands, Borneo, from the 19th to the 21st century / Borbala Nyiri, independent scholar ; Chapter 9. Jar Interventions: Ceramic Containers as Disobedient Objects in Contemporary Asian Art / Sooyoung Leam, The Courtauld Institute of Art, and Anna Grasskamp, Hong Kong Baptist University ; Chapter 10. Concluding Thoughts on Transformative Jars: Asian Ceramic Vessels as Transcultural Enclosures / Anne Gerritsen, University of Warwick and Leiden University Anna Grasskamp Hong Kong Baptist University

Index.

Notes:

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.

ISBN:

9781350277441

9781350277465

1350277460

Publisher Number:

99992736984

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.