View A Set of Three French Chinoiserie Painted Panels, After Jean-Bapiste Pillement (Circa 1750) After Jean Baptiste Pillement; Oil on canvas; height 68 1/2 in.; width 23 1/2 in. 174 cm 59.7 cm; .

Chinoiserie was not only a style but an ideology. The arrival of blue-and-white porcelain in Europe some 500 years ago (first as ballast on merchant ships from China) ignited an obsession with the ...

The blue-and-white porcelain that bewitched Europeans when it arrived from China in the mid-16th century spawned a global industry of imports, knock-offs, elaborations, homages and refinements ...

Application of the term chinoiserie to this class of Meissen porcelains is problematic, however, because Johann Gregor Höroldt and his painters developed ideas from a variety of sources and referred ...

So, he thought back to two panels of Ranieri, a chinoiserie design produced by artists Carlo Antonio and Vittorio Ranieri in the late 18th century, which he had installed in a client's home years ago.

Chinoiserie's 5000 square metres gives Wong plenty of room to create the English-style borders, garden rooms and vistas of his imagination. A narrow creek divides the long block in two, ...