Title Collecting and displaying China's "Summer Palace" in the West : the Yuanmingyuan in Britain and France / edited by Louise Tythacott

Edition First edition Published London : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2018 ©2018

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 172 pages) : illustrations Series The histories of material culture and collecting, 1700-1950 Histories of material culture and collecting, 1700-1950. Contents Part Part I Overviews -- chapter 1 The Yuanmingyuan and its Objects / LOUISE TYTHACOTT -- chapter 2 The Afterlives of a Ruin: The Yuanmingyuan in China and the West / JAMES L. HEVIA -- chapter 3 From the Summer Palace 1860: Provenance and Politics / NICK PEARCE -- part Part II The Yuanmingyuan in Britain -- chapter 4 The Yuanmingyuan and Design Reform in Britain / KATE HILL -- chapter 5 2True Beauty of Form and Chaste Embellishment3: Summer Palace Loot and Chinese Porcelain Collecting in Nineteenth-century Britain / STACEY PIERSON -- chapter 6 2Chinese Gordon3 and the Royal Engineers Museum / JAMES SCOTT -- chapter 7 2Rose-water Upon His Delicate Hands3: Imperial and Imperialist Readings of the Hope Grant Ewer / KEVIN MCLOUGHLIN -- part Part III The Yuanmingyuan in France -- chapter 8 Henri Bertin (1720-1792) and Images of the Yuanmingyuan in Eighteenth-century France / JOHN FINLAY -- chapter 9 Empress Eugenie's Chinese Museum at the Chateau of Fontainebleau: An Unusual Decor in the 2House of the Ages3 / VINCENT DROGUET -- chapter 10 Yuanmingyuan on Display: Ornamental Aesthetics at the Musee Chinois / GREG M. THOMAS Summary "In October 1860, at the culmination of the Second Opium War, British and French troops looted and destroyed one of the most important palace complexes in imperial China--the Yuanmingyuan. Known in the West as the "Summer Palace," this site consisted of thousands of buildings housing a vast art collection. It is estimated that over a million objects may have been taken from the palaces in the Yuanmingyuan--and many of these are now scattered around the world, in private collections and public museums. With contributions from leading specialists, this is the first book to focus on the collecting and display of "Summer Palace" material over the past 150 years in museums in Britain and France. It examines the way museums placed their own cultural, political and aesthetic concerns upon Yuanmingyuan material, and how displays--especially those at the Royal Engineers Museum in Kent, the National Museum of Scotland and the Musée Chinois at the Château of Fontainebleau--tell us more about European representations and images of China, than they do about the Yuanmingyuan itself."--Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject Art objects, Chinese -- Collectors and collecting Art -- Collectors and collecting -- China -- Beijing ART -- History -- General. Antiquities -- Collectors and collecting. Art -- Collectors and collecting. Art objects, Chinese -- Collectors and collecting. Collectors and collecting. Yuan Ming Yuan (Beijing, China) -- History -- Collectors and collecting Beijing (China) -- Antiquities -- Collectors and collecting China -- Beijing. China -- Beijing -- Yuan Ming Yuan. Genre/Form History. Form Electronic book Author Tythacott, Louise, editor. ISBN 9781315113395 1315113392 9781351624893 135162489X 9781351624886 1351624881

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