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DESCRIPTION:Kee Il Choi Jr. will give a Brown Bag\nLunch presentation on Th
 ursday\, February 28\, at 12:15 pm. His talk is entitled “Ancien\,\nNouvea
 u et Antique: Display and\nConnoisseurship in a Princely Ceramics Collecti
 on.”\n\nThe European practice of mounting ceramics in silver and\ngilt bro
 nze has long fascinated historians of the decorative arts\, who have\ninte
 rpreted mounted Asian porcelains in particular as sites of aesthetic or\ni
 deological appropriation. Nonetheless\, important questions remain about w
 hy specific wares were made or selected for mounting\, how they were\ncomm
 ercialized by the eighteenth-century Parisian marchand\nmerciers\, and wha
 t the resultant hybrid aesthetic reveals about European practices\nof disp
 lay. This talk approaches these issues through an important group of\norna
 ment drawings datable to ca. 1770–85\, currently in the Metropolitan Museu
 m\nof Art. The suite’s thirty sheets illustrate ninety-one vases designate
 d as ancien (from China and Japan)\, nouveau (from Meissen and\nSèvres)\, 
 and antique (Etruscan or Attic pottery)\, with the Asian ceramics\nimplici
 tly promoted as the qualitative standard for those of European\nmanufactur
 e. The sheets’ consistent draftsmanship suggests a single studio or\nhand\
 , while annotations regarding size\, color\, texture\, and the composition
  of\nspecific garnitures have led previous scholars to interpret the suite
  as a mail\norder catalogue sent by a Parisian merchant-mercer to Prince A
 lbert of Saxony\n(1738–1822)\, Duke of Saxe-Teschen and his wife Marie-Chr
 istine (1742–1798). A\nmore comprehensive examination offers evidence that
  in fact it represents a\nvisual inventory of the Saxe-Teschen ceramics co
 llection\, the unique composition\nof which was determined by a confluence
  of hereditary taste and current fashion.Kee Il Choi Jr. was born\, raised
 \, and educated in New England. He received his BA from Tufts University a
 nd MA at the Williams College Graduate Program in the History of Art. Sinc
 e 1980\, he has been a dealer and consultant specializing in the art of th
 e Global Encounter\, especially between China and the West. In March of 20
 17\, he was admitted as PhD candidate at the Centre for the Arts in Societ
 y at Leiden University. The working title of his dissertation project is “
 Reflections in an Ancient Mirror: Henri-Leonard Bertin\, Joseph-Marie Amio
 t and the Pursuit of Virtue.”
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SUMMARY:Bard Graduate Center: *Ancien\, Nouveau et Antique*
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