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    Chinoiserie: Printed British Ceramics in the Chinese style 1750 – 1900

    Sep 07, 2019 2 minutes
    Written by Stephen Bowers
    Oscar Wilde’s witticism "I find it harder and harder every day to live up to my blue china" reflects the status and allurement of blue and white as an enduring phenomena.

    o-authored by scholars and avid transferware collectors Richard Halliday and Loren Zeller, Chinoiserie is a wonderful compendium of original sources and the designs they inspired across more than two centuries of printed

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