The Pilgrim Art: Cultures of Porcelain in World History

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Inde 391 Abbasids (750–1258), 143; colored brickwork for palaces and monuments, 148; Mongols conquering, 142, 151; Al-Mutasim (r. 833– 42), 140; and Song, 140; and Tang, 99, 105– 6; trading towns, 235 Abu’l-Fazl (1551–1602), Akbarnama, 246–47 Accounts of India and China/Akhbar al-Hind wa’l Sin (851), 147 Achaeminids (559–330 b.c.e.), 148, 170 Acta Eruditorum/learned deeds journal, 62 aesthetics: Chinese, 166, 172–74, 277, 281, 288, 295; diverse media, 165, 243; flower arranging , 132 ; islamic, 243; Mughal, 245, 247; “pilgrim art,” 5, 63, 252; rococo, 74, 267, 281–84, 288, 289; sharawadgi, 281. See also architecture; art history; calligraphy; decorative motifs; paintings; tapestries Africa: Alcázar-Quibir battle, 1–2; Great Zimbabwe , 234, 235, 236; isthmus linking Eurasia with, 12; Muslim merchants, 143; pottery divinities, 39–41; slave trade, 71, 234; Swahili coast pottery, 233–37, 293; Zheng He voyages , 233–34 Agency for the Southern branch of the imperial Clan, 109 agriculture: loess and, 88; wet-rice, 228. See also food; rice Alexander the Great (336–323 b.c.e.), 148 alumina, 82–83, 137 Amboina, nautilus shells, 72 American indians: clay, 290, 293; Hopi Plumed Serpent, 72; pottery divinities, 39–41 Americas: first pottery, 38; Popol vuh (book of the Community), 41; silk trade, 8, 256; silver, 2, 46, 55, 60, 63, 145, 256, 264; Spanish, 256. See also American indians; Mexico; Peru Amsterdam: commercial and industrial supremacy , 251; dutch war with France (1672– 78), 201; French competition, 53; nautilus shells, 72; Spinoza, 62; voC auction of Portuguese cargoes, 253; voC directors, 270 ancient tradition: Chinese, 25–26, 115–23, 163– 66, 279, 280; European, 288–89, 290. See also archaeology Andrade brothers, 255 Anjou kings, Hungary and naples, 157 An lushan rebellion (755–63), 105–6, 140, 181, 187–88 Arabs: trade, 99, 109, 140 arcanum (secret formula for porcelain), 62, 66. archaeology: broken pottery, 10, 104, 233, 236; Herculaneum, 282–83, 304; Japanese trade with China, 186; Jingdezhen, 162; shipwrecks, 104, 141, 157, 202–3, 223; Song kilns, 109; Southeast Asia, 226–27; Southwest Asia, 141, 148; Swahili coast, 233, 234, 236; Tang ceramics , 104; Tang ying, 75 architecture: Chinese, 162–63; Japanese emulating Chinese, 191; Kew pagoda, 281– 82; Mughal, 245; Porcelain Pagoda/baoen architecture (continued) Temple, 162–63, 219, 281–82, 294–95, 296, 303; Trianon de Porcelaine (1670), 163, 211, 275, 281–82 Argenson, marquis d’ (1694–1757), 212, 290 armorial porcelain, 27–28, plates 5-6 art history: economic history separated from, 11–12. See also aesthetics; “pilgrim art” artisans: jade, 133–34; talent drain from Mediterranean to northern Europe, 251. See also potters Asia: first diplomatic legation to Europe from, 211–12; first pottery, 8, 38; islam, 143–47; tectonic plates, 85–88, 176; trade with West, 3, 5, 53–60, 69, 96–103, 293–94. See also Central Asia; China; india; Japan; Southeast Asia; Southwest Asia L’Astrée (Urfé), 133 August ii (“the Strong,” 1670–1733), Elector of Saxony and King of Poland, 60–64, 276, plate 5; bourbons united with, 282; cobalt, 150; cross-cultural decorations, 303; pilgrim flasks, 300; shells, 73; table services, 202; Tschirnaus with, 60, 61–62, 84, 128, 276; yixing pots, 128. See also Meissen ceramic manufactory August iii (1733–63), 60, 73, 273; archaeology, 282; daughter Maria Josepha, 267; daughter Marie Amalia, 282 Australia, convict colony, 289 Austria: Ferdinand ii (1529–96), 4; War of the Austrian Succession (1740–48), 283 Avalokitesvara, 102–3, 178, 181, 184, 207, 298. See also Guanyin Baburnama, 245–46 babylon, Gate of ishtar, 148 bacon, Sir Francis (1561–1626), Novum Organum (1620), 66 baghdad, 105, 140, 142, 148, 151, 154, 241. bali: Hindu-buddhist, 144, 208; kendi, 299 banks, Sir Joseph (1743–1820), 49, 277, 290, 291 baoen/Porcelain Pagoda Temple, nanjing, 162– 63, 219, 281–82, 294–95, 296, 303 barbosa, duarte (d. 1545), 65, 66 barros, João de (ca. 1496–1570), Décadas da Ásia, 71 barrow,John,DictionariumPolygraphicum(1735), 134 basalt, 78–79 batavia/Jakarta: Muslim porcelain culture, 233; voC, 22, 29–30, 111, 207, 222, 255, 257, 260–61, 270; Western territory, 294; Zheng He trade, 222 bells, bronze and pottery, 135 bembo, Ambrosio (1652–1705), 244 bengal, EiC, 261, 287, 294 bentley, Thomas (1731–80), 79, 289–93 bernier, François (1620–88), 54, 247 black basalt ware, 79 blue: “blue” China, 96–99, 204, 217–18; “buddha’s head blue,” 160; kingfisher blue, 177; “Muslim blue,” 139–40, 148...