| It comprises more than seventy objects, including porcelains, paintings, watercolors, furniture, bronzes, screens, and jewelry. |
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| Alcoves at either end of the front hall, for example, contained Sevres soft-paste porcelains at one end. |
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| His acquisitions included Chinese porcelains, medieval and Renaissance paintings, and rare books, especially on religion. |
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| He decorated the gallery walls and populated vitrines with avian paintings, porcelains, books and prints. |
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| Among the imports were decorative objects such as fans, prints, screens, and pottery and porcelains. |
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| An unusual surface treatment of the clear glass in the three panels recalls Chinese Kraak porcelains. |
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| It is no longer just porcelains decorated with colourful enamels and with mark and period that make the huge prices. |
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| Chinese porcelains produced for export are among the most revered of all ceramics. |
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| They were the first to use kaolin clay for porcelains, so that when thin enough, the walls revealed breathtaking translucency. |
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| These may have been ornamental porcelains intended to be used as table decorations. |
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| Today it stands half-forgotten in the woods behind the Chateau de Rambouillet, in Rambouillet, denuded of its furnishings, its elegant porcelains, and most of its sculptures. |
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| Arens collected such tiny surrealistic beachheads in a frontal assault on the mundane as others would collect porcelains or baseball trading cards. |
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| Among the most highly prized exotic imports were porcelains. |
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| The founding fathers and mothers had deep fascination with the stylish Chinese porcelains, tea gear, silk, and books on China and Chinese political economy. |
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| There were a grand staircase, a succession of public rooms overlooking the garden, painted and gilded paneling, and furniture and porcelains in the best taste. |
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| It acted rather like a superior form of name-tag, and enabled rights of possession to be marked centuries later, as the porcelains in this book are. |
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| The latter had a knack for persuading descendants of Chinese nobles to part with their inherited treasures, including rare paintings and porcelains with imperial provenances. |
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| Blanc de Chine porcelains and Yixing stonewares arriving in Europe and gave inspiration to many European potters. |
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| Furniture of the early 19th century dominates the room and 18th century English and Chinese porcelains are displayed in a hanging wall cupboard. |
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| From around 1720, the new Famille Rose palette was adopted and quickly supplanted the earlier Famille Verte porcelains of the Kangxi period. |
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| In 1772 an auction in the Palazzo Vecchio of objects from storage dispersed the Medici porcelains conserved in Tuscany. |
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| These porcelains that came from East Asia, especially China, were some of the finest quality porcelain wares. |
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| Additionally, there are Oriental and Chinese hardstone carvings, cloisonne, old ivory netsukes, and Asian and European porcelains. |
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| Ferdinando brought his prized Chinese and Medici porcelains back with him to Florence from the Villa Medici in Rome, along with his paintings and treasured Roman antiquities. |
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| Moreover, the term refers to the type of shelves that often displayed import blue and white porcelains in Friesland, in the north of the Netherlands. |
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| Some porcelains were more highly valued than others in imperial China. |
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