Monsoon Winds and Ming Porcelains: Chinese Ceramics and Their Reception in Early Modern South Asia
This essay will explore the arrival, acquisition, and reception of Chinese ceramics within early modern South Asia, with a focus on the Mughal dynasty (r. 1526–1857) courtly context. The first step in placing South Asian ceramic collecting practices within the broader historical and geographic circu...
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| Tipo de documento: | Recurso Electrónico Artigo |
| Idioma: | Inglês |
| Verificar disponibilidade: | HBZ Gateway |
| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2023
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Muqarnas
Ano: 2023, Volume: 40, Número: 1, Páginas: 103-153 |
| Outras palavras-chave: | B
cultural memory
B Tela B Porcelain B Mughal B Genealogy B China B Reception B heirlooms B collecting B Heritage B Timurid B South Asia |
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Volltext (lizenzpflichtig) Volltext (lizenzpflichtig) |
| Resumo: | This essay will explore the arrival, acquisition, and reception of Chinese ceramics within early modern South Asia, with a focus on the Mughal dynasty (r. 1526–1857) courtly context. The first step in placing South Asian ceramic collecting practices within the broader historical and geographic circulation of porcelains in the Gulf and Indian Ocean worlds is understanding the breadth and nature of South Asian collections. While the Safavid porcelain collections donated by Shah Abbas to Ardabil, and the massive Chinese porcelain collection of the Ottoman courts held today in Istanbul’s Topkapı Palace are well known and relatively well published, the Chinese ceramic collections of South Asia have received less scholarly attention. Fresh material presented here includes new evidence of the extent of multi-generational Mughal interactions with, and interest in, Chinese ceramics. The broader question to be addressed is how these porcelains were perceived, utilized, and displayed in the South Asian context. Considering textual evidence, contemporary paintings, extant architecture, archaeological finds, and surviving inscribed objects, this essay will argue that Mughal porcelain collections should be understood within the context of their broader collecting activities, and in relation to the porcelain collections and displays of their Timurid ancestors. |
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| ISSN: | 2211-8993 |
| Obras secundárias: | Enthalten in: Muqarnas
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/22118993_0040_006 |
