European artisans blended Chinese motifs with Baroque and Rococo styles, ... Maddox Black Lacquer Chinoiserie Bureau，image source from 1stDIBS.

Rococo was romantic, ... These sweeping scenes—whether it’s a dreamy pastoral landscape, chinoiserie motifs, or classical garden settings—turn blank walls into immersive storybooks.

View A Chinoiserie Composition: A Seated Girl Holding a Parasol and a Man in a hat, within and elaborate Rococo floral surround By Boucher François; black chalk, and bears signature in another hand in ...

The San Francisco Fall Antiques Show has got to be the most prestigious of events of its type in the Bay Area. This year’s extravaganza happens Oct. 28-31 and will feature a blockbuster exhibit ...

The title of this magnificent new book—Everyday Rococo: Madame de Pompadour and Sèvres Porcelain—on a familiar, indeed almost clichéd subject is intriguing and intentionally paradoxical ...

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 ...