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MONDAY NIGHT ZOOM LECTURES: THE DECORATED BODY – TAASA Review December 2022

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This article was originally found in the December 2022 edition of TAASA Review (Volume 31, Issue 4, Page 25).

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1 August 2022 From Printed Page to Porcelain and Beyond: Eurasian Fashion and the Decorative Arts 1500-1800 Professor Peter McNeil examined how the various artefacts exchanged between China, India, Japan, Southeast Asia and Europe – including textiles for clothing, lacquer, porcelain, reverse painted glass mirrors and even fake gems – became desired fashion items from 1500-1800.

Prints from European engravings helped generate the spread of fashion among the elites in design, clothes, the decorative arts and interiors.

Technological experiments with a wide range of materials also increased, for example, in ceramics, Indian dyes and artificial fibres all of which contributed to vibrant fashion interchanges...