Changes in French Tastes for Japanese Ceramics

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The aim of this essay is to cast light on the history of collection of Japanese ceramics in France during the period when japonisme was in vogue. Analyzing data about private collections obtained from contemporary auction catalogs and museum catalogs, I consider traits of each collection. I focus on major features of French collections in the second half of the nineteenth century, and compare them with those in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. I am equally concerned to try to understand the general trend of changes in French tastes for Japanese ceramics. This study begins with a look at the collections in light of the ways they were put together. They can be grouped into three types: 1) collections for ceramic research, 2) collections representing the refined taste of Japanophiles, and 3) collections organized with emphasis on a specific element of Japanese ceramics. Another typology can be proposed, distinguishing collections according to the period of their formation. A second objective of this essay is to report on the contents of each collection and features of each type. A third is to examine features of collections assembled in France in the second half of the nineteenth century. This essay concludes that French tastes for Japanese ceramics changed dramatically, with the emergence of japonisme as the turning point. Japanese pottery gradually began to capture collectors' interest, and porcelain came to be fancied less. It was during the period of japonisme that implements for the tea ceremony were collected by preference and on a large scale in France for the first time in history.
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Changes in French Tastes for Japanese Ceramics

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