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A Natural History of Porcelain: Jacquemart and Le Blant’s Taxonomy of Japanese Design
- L'Esprit Créateur
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 56, Number 3, Fall 2016
- pp. 28-46
- 10.1353/esp.2016.0025
- Article
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Through a close study of both image and text, this article dissects Jacquemart and Le Blant’s Histoire artistique, industrielle, et commerciale de la porcelaine and examines how the volume marshalled ceramic design as scientific proof of Japan’s cultural difference and uniqueness in 1860s France.