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中國民間藝術 Chinese Folk Art (book) 3
Curator of the University Museum & Art Gallery, Yeung Chun-tong 楊春堂（but 木 instead of 土), discusses relationship between Chinese Folk Art prints & porcelain decoration.
…Diaper and net pattens are commonly stamped on green-glazed ceramics of the Western Jin Dynasty. Often found in between these patterns is a bead pattern (Tianjin Teachers print below). This bead [...]
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Tian Shanghai 天上海
Shanghai, China’s proud ever-growing metropolis, with well known turbulent history spanning over recent 100 years (& most probably more).
Description from the book: Colored. Qing Dynasty. Suzhou, Jiangsu Province. 28×50cm.
The use of the railway in China was recorded in a piece of writing of 1875. The upper portion of this work is the depiction of a [...]
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中國民間藝術 Chinese Folk Art (book) 2
Isn’t this cute? It’s one of the picture off the Chinese Folk Art book. I particularly like the big fat ginger cat looking down on the procession of rats!
老鼠嫁女 Colored. Republic China. Chunantan, Hunan Province. 22 x 43.5cm
This is a satirical story popular in the eastern part of China: a mouse wishes his daughter to [...]
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中國民間藝術 Chinese Folk Art (book) 1
This is one of the books I got out of a local library. It’s a very good book – all information is bilingual & there are lot’s of nice pictures of Chinese Folk Art from different eras & history behind it.
I didn’t realise at the time of borrowing, but this is actually more of a [...]