Title Chinese Art Objects, Collecting, and Interior Design in Twentieth-Century Britain

Published Milton : Taylor & Francis Group, 2022

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Description 1 online resource (183 p.) Series The Histories of Material Culture and Collecting, 1700-1950 Ser The Histories of Material Culture and Collecting, 1700-1950 Ser Contents Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures -- Preface -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 Chinese Porcelain in European Style: Visuality, Connectivity, and Otherness -- Origins: Refashioning and Repurposing Chinese Porcelain for Europe -- Rebranding Chinese Porcelain: Armorial Wares and Special Commissions -- Exclusivity and Connectivity: Chinese Porcelain in Eighteenth-Century Europe -- European Style Porcelain at the Eighteenth-Century Chinese Court -- Gendering Porcelain Consumption: Fact or Fiction? Collecting European Style Chinese Porcelain: The British National Collections -- The Ionides Collection of European Style Chinese Export Porcelain in the Public Sphere -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter 2 Basil Ionides: Collecting, Interior Design, and Museums -- The Ionides Family: Collectors, Patrons, and Benefactors -- Basil Ionides: Architect and "Decorator" -- Professional Recognition and Commercial Success: Claridge's Restaurant (1926-1927) -- "Modernism with a Chinese Flavour": The Savoy Hotel and Theatre (1929) -- Interior Design in Print: Writing and Publishing (1922-1936) Colour Theory and Interior Decoration: Books by Basil Ionides -- Modernism and Chinese Art: Aesthetic and Cultural Debates -- The Bequest of "Eastern Ceramics with Armorial Decorations" at the V&A -- Basil Ionides the Collector -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter 3 Fashioning the Collector: Nellie Ionides and Chinese Porcelain -- The Anglo-Jewish Elite and Art Collecting -- "Knew What She Wanted and Got It!" Nellie Ionides' Chinese Porcelain Collection -- Social and Commercial Networks: Dealers, Agents, and Auctioneers -- Public Engagement: Museums, Art Galleries, and Exhibitions Nellie Ionides and the Chinese Art World -- Art, Identity, and Jewishness -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter 4 Chinese Art and the English Country House: Elite Fashion, Taste, and Display -- The Historiography of Chinoiserie -- The Neo-Georgian Revival: Chinoiserie, the Chinese Room, and Chinese Porcelain -- Collectible Object/Article of Display? -- The Ionides at Buxted Park: Restoration and "Decoration" Before the War -- Shared Patterns of Taste in Elite Society -- Object as Artefact/Object as Ornament -- Gilded Buddhas, Ancestor Portraits, and Tang Figurines: Chinese Art as Interior Design Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter 5 The Impact of War: Collecting Chinese Art 1940-1950 -- Buxted Park during Wartime: Destruction and "Rehabilitation" -- Cased Objects and Systematic Collecting -- The Wartime Activities of the Ionides -- The British Art Ecosystem: Auctioneers, Dealers, and Agents -- Private Purchase: The Circulation of Chinese Art Objects in Elite Society -- The Ionides and the Oriental Ceramic Society -- Post-War Aspirations: Collections, Museums, and the National Trust -- The Afterlife of the Ionides Collection -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Conclusion -- Index Notes Description based upon print version of record Subject Ionides, Basil, 1884-1950 -- Art collections Ionides, Nellie, 1883-1962 -- Art collections SUBJECT Ionides, Nellie, 1883-1962 fast Subject Art -- Collectors and collecting -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century Art -- Collectors and collecting Art -- Private collections Great Britain Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 1000644278 9781000644272

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