Transformative jars : Asian ceramic vessels as transcultural enclosures /: Asian ceramic vessels as transcultural enclosures. (2022)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: [edited by] Anna Grasskamp and Anne Gerritsen.
• Editors: Gerritsen, Anne; Grasskamp, Anna
• 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.
• Publisher Details: London [England] : Bloomsbury Visual Arts
• Publication Date: 2022
• Extent: 1 online resource (272 pages)
• Subjects: 738.0951; Pottery, Asian; Vases; Ceramics; Vases; Céramique industrielle; vases; ceramic ware (visual works); Ceramics; Pottery, Asian; Vases; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781350277465; 1350277460; 9781350277458; 1350277452
• Related ISBNs: 9781350277472; 9781350277434
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