PREFERRED TERM
Chinoiserie style
DEFINITION
- A style that imitates the Chinese the patterns and motifs of which were adopted relatively early in the West as a result of the opening up of the trade routes to the East; examples included the silks produced in the 14th century at the Lucca silk factories. However, the term chinoiserie is more normally applied to objects produced in the 17th and, especially, the 18th centuries in which Chinese decoration was combined with European motifs.
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BIBLIOGRAPHIC CITATION
- Clarke, Michael. The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms (2nd ed). Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010. (online); Simpson, John; Weiner, Edmund (eds). The Oxford English Dictionary. Oxford : Clarendon Press ; Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1989. [www.oed.com]
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IN OTHER LANGUAGES
Chinoiserie
French
Cineserie
Italian
Estilo chinoiserie
Spanish
URI
http://data.silknow.org/vocabulary/676
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