Portugal In Porcelain from China: 500 years of trade is a five volume comprehensive study of Chinese export porcelain ordered by the Portuguese market from 1520 until 1900. This bilingual work, written in Portuguese and English, reports on the history of Portuguese trade with China, with primary research on the people and institutions that commissioned the porcelains.

Portugal In Porcelain from China: 500 years of trade is the definitive source on this subject for the next generations.

Essays: Nine Years that Changed the World: 1488-1497 by Bruno G. Neves; A Brief Introduction to Heraldry by J. Bénard Guedes and The Portuguese and the Trade in Chinese Porcelain. From the Beginning to the End of the Ming Dynasty by Christiaan.

Catalogue: Chapter 1 and 2, The First Orders (1520 to 1650), from Portugal and Europe; Table of illustrations; Index of nomenclature in the catalogue; Bibliography

Portugal In Porcelain from China:: 500 years of trade: Volume I

Portugal In Porcelain From China: 500 years of trade is a five volume comprehensive study of Chinese export porcelain ordered by the Portuguese market from 1520 until 1900. This bilingual work, written in Portuguese and English, reports on the history of Portuguese trade with China, with primary research on the people and institutions that commissioned the porcelains.

Essays: Preface by J. VerÃ­ssimo SerrÃ£o; Carreira da Ãndia by B. GonÃ§alves Neves; The Crown and Military Orders in Portugal by Dom V. X. Teles da Gama; From private luxury to the public ostentation of wealth and power by S. Bessone; The Royal Galliots in the Maritime Museum by J. A. R. Pereira; Royal Â«Super-librosÂ» from the Braganza dynasty by A. Tavares de Carvalho; Ecclesiastical Heraldry on Chinese Porcelain Imported by the Portuguese by M. Metelo de Seixas; AntÃ³nio Vieira and his defence of the People of the Nation by C. Silva Tavares

Catalogue: Chronology; Chapter 3, Kings of Portugal; Chapter 4, Religious Orders; Chapter 5, Portuguese Clergy; Table of illustrations; Index of nomenclature in the catalogue; Bibliography

Portugal In Porcelain from China 500 Years Of Trade: Volume II

Volume III, with more than 280 pages and 150 illustrations, focus on the orders by the Portuguese aristocracy from late seventeenth century until mid-18th century, presenting also a summary of all the published information in the 20th century.

Each of the studied pieces is fully illustrated and accompanied by analyses of the armorials and western designs placed within the context of the Chinese repertoire of shapes and designs and annotated with the latest scholarship available by Dr. Lourenço Correia de Matos, Margaret Kaelin Gristina and A. Varela Santos.

The three informative essays by leading scholars (listed in the summary box) precede the catalogue and all represent important and incomparable contributions to the subject.

This is an important work for the library of any connoisseur, curators of museums or private collections, collectors, art historians, dealers and auctioneers in Chinese porcelain for the Portuguese market.

Essays: News about “porcelana” in a 1590’s letter from Jesuit Duarte Sande by Joaquim VerÃ­ssimo SerrÃ£o; Trade with the Orient: forms of operation and commercial participation on the India Route in the 16th century by Bruno GonÃ§alves Neves; Â«E entre gente remota edificaram novo Reino, que tanto sublimaramÂ» Portuguese Society in the Orient – 16th and 17th Centuries by CÃ©lia Cristina da Silva Tavares.

Catalogue: Chapter 6 (Part I) – Portuguese civil aristocracy orders from late 17th century until mid-18th century; Pieces excluded from catalogue; Table of Illustrations; Index of nomenclature in the catalogue; Bibliography.

Volume III was published in December 2009

Portugal In Porcelain from China 500 Years Of Trade: Volume III

Volume IV, with more than 310 pages and 199 illustrations, focus on the orders made by the Portuguese aristocracy from the mid-18th century until 1800, together with a summary of all the published information in the 20th century.

Each of the studied pieces is fully illustrated and accompanied by analyses of the families, armorials or western designs placed within the context of the Chinese repertoire of shapes and designs and annotated with the latest scholarship available by Dr. LourenÃ§o Correia de Matos, Margaret Kaelin Gristina and A. Varela Santos.

This is an fundamental work for the library of any connoisseur, curators of museums or private collections, collectors, art historians, dealers and auctioneers in Chinese porcelain for the Portuguese market.

TERRA BRASILIS: A sketch of the society established in Portuguese America from the 16th to the 18th centuries, by Professor CÃ©lia Cristina da Silva Tavares

Chinese porcelain ordered by Portuguese Jews in the Diaspora, by Robert Bachmann

Alternative proposal for the classification of Chinese porcelain according to its decoration, by A. Varela Santos

Catalogue: Chapter 6 (Part II) – Portuguese civil aristocracy orders from the mid-18th century until 1800; Pieces excluded from catalogue; Table of Illustrations; Index of nomenclature in the catalogue; Bibliography.

Portugal In Porcelain from China 500 Years Of Trade: Volume IV

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100 Years of Chinese Export Porcelain

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Qing Export Porcelain

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Yuan to Qing Ceramics

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