Scholarship: Dr. Stephen Little Pritzker Curator of Asian Art, Art Institute of Chicago
Sir Michael Butler Collector
and
Julia B. Curtis Independent Scholar
The seventeenth century is the last field of Chinese porcelain production that has yet to be extensively explored, and the porcelain created during the 17-year reign of Shunzhi -- the boy sovereign and first Qing Emperor of China -- is the least well-known of all. This exhibition demonstrates the great creativity of this period and identifies the new ceramic shapes and styles of painting characteristic of the reign. Blue and White and wucai (underglaze blue and enamels) predominate, depicting animals, mythical beasts, landscapes, plants, flowers, and narrative scenes. Also represented are a wide variety of other types including monochromes in white, yellow, and deep and light blue. Works are drawn from public and private collections in England, France, and the United States, including the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, and the Butler Family Collection (the largest collection of 17th-century Chinese porcelain in the world.)
Itinerary:
Honolulu Academy of Arts (Honolulu, HI) Trammel & Margaret Crow Collection of Asian Art (Dallas, TX) University of Virginia Art Museum (Charlottesville, VA)
May 2 - September 8, 2002 September 28 - January 5, 2003 December 20 - April 5, 2004
Traveling Exhibitions from Art Services International
Images courtesy of and used under license from the Lenders, unless another source is noted.
Scholarship: Dr. Stephen Little
