Fine and Curious: Japanese Porcelain in Dutch Collections (Hardcover)

Product Description
An enduring witness to Dutch-Japanese relations is the Arita export porcelain made for the Dutch market in the 17th and 18th centuries. The Dutch East India Company (VOC) was instrumental in ordering and distributing a diversity of such export wares. Private trade also played an important role. This resulted in the importation of large amounts of Japanese porcelain into the Netherlands: these works were assimilated into Dutch life and they stimulated the interest in exotica from the Orient. Whilst many of these exquisite pieces have been lost over time, numerous examples of Japanese export ware are still housed in public and private collections in the Netherlands. In this book, Dr Jorg discusses the variety of export ware and the extraordinary pieces in these collections, offering an insight into one-aspect of Dutch-Japanese relations.

About the Author
Professor Dr Christiaan J.A. Jorg has been Keeper of the Department of Decorative and Oriental Ceramics at the Groninger Museum, Groningen (The Netherlands) since 1977. He was Deputy Director of the Museum for the period 1988-1992 and Head of Research since 1995. He was guest-curator at the Princessehof Museum, Leeuwarden from 1996 to 2000. Dr Jorg has mounted over 25 major exhibitions in Groningen and abroad, and lectured widely in Europe, the Far East and the United States. In 1984, he was visiting professor at Kansai University, Osaka, and is a frequent traveller to Japan. His publications include 'Pronk Porcelain' (1980), 'Interactions in ceramics. Oriental Porcelain and Delftware' (1982), 'The Geldermalsen. History and Porcelain' (1986), 'Chinese Export Porcelain, Chine de Commande from the Royal Museums of Art and History in Brussels' (1990) and 'Ceramics in the Collection of the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam'(1997). In 1997, he was appointed part-time professor at Leiden University, and lecturer on