How To Use Chinoiserie In A Sentence
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First, the house's painted Chinoiserie wallpaper suggested a palette for the scagliola: soft shades of terracotta, green, buff, lilac and dusty blue.
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The introduction of a British ship into a chinoiserie scene is highly unusual and vividly illustrates Liverpool's early interest in world trade.
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Gazing at their done-over barns and railroad apartments in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, one gets the definite sense that their "undecorated" spaces are a bit more decorated than our own undecorated spaces, and one secretly suspects that one's own life may not yield up the time to stumble across handpainted Chinoiserie wallpaper by the storied French firm de Gournay or antique Etruscan pottery brought back from a trip to Beirut.
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La Maison's range of originals spans the 18th and 19th centuries, with gilded-cherub motifs, lacquered black chinoiserie and caned beds.
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The most usual decorative themes in penwork are neoclassicism, chinoiserie, and floral subjects.
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In the first quarter of the century chinoiserie was a popular style, exemplified by the pearl and diamond pagoda-shaped earrings of the 1820s shown in Plates IIIa and IIIb.
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The Beauforts brought their boundless enthusiasm for chinoiserie to Badminton, and in so doing created two of the most remarkable rooms in England.
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Gift-shop ceramic chinoiseries are mounted on some canvases.
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First, the house's painted Chinoiserie wallpaper suggested a palette for the scagliola: soft shades of terracotta, green, buff, lilac and dusty blue.
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A later Walter Moorcroft vase reached £780 and a 19th century potichomania glass vase and cover printed with chinoiserie sold well at £500.
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It is stripped down chinoiserie, all wood and fretting, strictly rectilinear, lugubrious.
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The look brought together Far Eastern inspiration and Western craftsmanship, creating the foundation for the style known as chinoiserie, which is still popular today.
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He developed an extensive decorative program, concentrating almost entirely on chinoiserie.
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La Maison's range of originals spans the 18th and 19th centuries, with gilded-cherub motifs, lacquered black chinoiserie and caned beds.
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In such images, Chinese workshops played on European taste so well that one could almost describe them as Chinese-executed chinoiseries.
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Snow, one of the features of the chinoiserie here, is frequently associated in Prynne's work with the limits of survival and habitation.
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I was charmed by the delicate chinoiserie of the animation style, especially the title credits.
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In fact the king's mistress owned two garnitures with chinoiserie decoration painted by Dodin that my predecessor at the Louvre was able to reunite for the exhibition Un defi au gout held at the Louvre in 1997.
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Shivani: In "Letter to Alfred Corn," we overhear a conversation with a friend: "I'll be back in New York, feeling ten times more alien/than where the polyglot boulevards intersect, linking up/11e and 20e, Maghreb, punk chic, kashruth, chinoiserie.
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The elaborate epergne, made by Thomas Pitts of London in 1761, bespeaks the chinoiserie influence on late rococo English decorative arts.
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A former editor-in-chief of Elle Decoration, Leece was commissioned by publisher Periplus Editions last September to examine the global appetite for chinoiserie.
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These techniques were used to meet the market for more exaggerated chinoiserie, to create large-scale pieces for grand Western interiors, and to give a greater sense of overall elaboration.
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In lieu of actually traveling to these exotic places, people surrounded themselves with chinoiserie,
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A passion for Chinese motifs - chinoiserie - preceded and paved the way.
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As the taste for chinoiserie flourished, textiles such as chintz, wallpapers, screens and cabinets freely incorporated Asian motifs both real and imagined.
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Pagoda Trellis is based on a fragment of a silk panel hand painted in France in the eighteenth century in response to the European rage for chinoiserie that pervaded every aspect of interior decoration.
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The Parnassians contributed to the cultivation of this taste for chinoiserie.
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“Chinoiserie” (meaning bizarre tricks or monkey - shines in modern French usage) is a term descriptive of the eighteenth-century European view of China as
Dictionary of the History of Ideas
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The interiors are all original chinoiseries and stained glass, oil paintings, Meissen porcelain, taffeta and silk.
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With French and German influences came chinoiserie, which was first introduced in the Palazzo Reale in Turin, and would spread all the way to Palermo.
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Reber suggested that the artist may have been interpreting (albeit very loosely) some engravings by Jean Pillement, whose chinoiseries were quite widely known at the time, but this is difficult to confirm.
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As for the George II Chinoiserie giltwood overmantel mirror by sold by Christie's New York on 3 June, it had it all.
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Dating to around 1760-75, many bear delicate but thickly applied ‘high-relief’ polychrome enamelled flowers, exotic birds, fruit, chinoiseries and gilt-scrolled borders characteristic of contemporary Chelsea porcelain.
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Based on a Korean fairy-tale, this light and witty piece of chinoiserie tells the story of a Mandarin's daughter who is engaged to a rich Ambassador but loves an impoverished youth.
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But the word singeries (French singe: ape or monkey) is usually restricted to a particular phase of chinoiserie during the French Régence period.
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Since the vogue for chinoiserie included keeping exotic animals, the manufacture of porcelain animals is understandable.
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a high narrow chest of drawers shiffónìây chignon-a knot of hair that is worn at the back of the head and especially at the nape of the neck shìnyon chinoiserie-a style in art, as in decoration, reflecting Chinese qualities or motifs; an object or decoration in this style sauerkraut; sauerkraut cooked and served with meat-also called choucroute garnie
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The counterargument against the appropriateness of this metaphor is the over-commercialization of the Buddha in neo-chinoiserie, in New Age religion and in other resurgent forms of orientalism.
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What were called ‘Chinoiserie’ styles of alleged Asian designs were in vogue for those who wanted a lighter alternative to the formality of baroque or neoclassicism.
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Or is the reference to ‘Esdala’ no more than a plausible fiction, and the picture a pleasant Chinese fantasy, equivalent to the whimsical chinoiseries concocted in Europe a century before?
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One of the most successful styles adopted by carvers of rococo overmantels was chinoiserie.
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Both sets in Plate X display many of the fashionable features of the day they are engraved in the popular chinoiserie style, and some pieces have trifid ends.
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Chinoiserie chandeliers and pelmets, fretwork cornices, and ‘India’ wallpaper further ornamented the room, creating a splendid and exotic gardenlike setting.
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Even the delicate amatory trophy of Cupid's bow and arrow has moved away from chinoiserie and rococo sources.
