"The willow pattern that we know" : the Victorian literature of Blue willow

Author

O'Hara, Patricia

Document type

Article (journal)

Language

English

Source

Victorian studies. 1993, Num. 4, Vol. 36, 421-442, 4 ill.

ISSN

0042-5222

Abstract (en)

Presents a chapter of the "cultural biography" of blue willow ceramics in 19th c. Britain. Author states: "Attesting to the passion for the possession of cultural legends, the willow pattern places the familiar characters of romance--the eloping tragic lovers and the cruel father--in a Chinese setting and, in doing so, draws on British commercial prejudices and developing ethnographic narratives of the relationship between a European culture imagined as civilized and progressive, and an alien culture seen as primitive and static".

Subject (en)

• General history of art -- 1800-1945 -- Decorative arts -- Ceramics and glass -- United Kingdom
• Blue and white ware
• Great Britain
• 1800-1900
• Willow pattern
• Literature
• Culture
• Ideology
• Iconography
• China
• Ceramics decoration
• Commerce
• Ethnology

Subject (fr)

• Histoire générale de l'art -- 1800-1945 -- Arts décoratifs -- Céramique et verre -- Royaume-Uni
• Céramique bleue et blanche
• Grande-Bretagne
• 1800-1900
• Motif de saule
• Littérature
• Culture
• Idéologie
• Iconographie
• Chine
• Décoration sur céramique
• Commerce
• Ethnologie

Origin

DatabaseBHA (Inist-CNRS/GRI)

Identifier19941001-00347659

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