Robert Finlay World History Books sku-13009563 #11
No rating yet(0 ratings)Robert Finlay's The Pilgrim Art: Cultures of Porcelain in World History is a hardcover in the California World History Library, series 11, edition 1. Listed under World History Books; SKU sku-13009563. The book traces Chinese porcelain's cultural influence over a thousand years.
It describes cobalt ore shipped from Persia to China in the fourteenth century to decorate porcelain for Muslims in Southeast Asia, India, Persia and Iraq. Spanish galleons carried porcelain to Peru and Mexico, while European aristocrats ordered tableware from Canton.
Finlay examines how porcelain carried artistic symbols and designs between places including Japan, Java, Egypt and England, and how it became part of local art, religion, economics, politics and social identity. The book presents this exchange as part of the emergence of a global culture.
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