Sunday, May 23, 2004
[famous_quotes] China
please read all of this, if you have time. If not, scroll down to the last part marked with an asterisk (*) It is a fantastic quote. I gave all the stuff leading up to it, just to put it in perspective.
Sung is the classical period of Chinese porcelain.
The last great age of Chinese porcelain came in that long and prosperous reign of Ch'ien lung.
Then, through fifteen bloody years (1850-64) came the T'ai-p'ing Rebellion, running fifteen provinces, destroying six hundred cities, killing twenty million men and women and so impoverishing the Manchu Dynasty that it withdrew its support from the potteries, and allowed them to close their doors and scatter their craftsmen into a disordered world.
the art of porcelain, in China, never recovered from that devastation, and perhaps never will.
What survives is a memory of an art perhaps so completely lost as that of medieval stained glass; try as they will, the potters of Europe have been unable to equal the subtler forms of Chinese porcelain.
Connoisseurs raise with every decade their monetary estimate of the masterpieces that survive; they ask five hundred dollars for a tea cup (as of 1930, it would be far higher now) and receive $23,000 for a Hawthorne vase.
but anyone who has felt, with eyes and fingers and every nerve, the loveliness of Chinese porcelain will resent these valuations, and count them as sacrilege; the world of beauty and the world of money never touch, even when beautiful things are sold.
* It is enough to say that Chinese porcelain is the summit and symbol of Chinese civilization, one of the noblest things that men have done to make their species forgivable on the earth
Durant
Randy ....or to one, who may read this "Panda"
have a nice day, beautiful dawn of spring
love life
Randy Carpenter
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Sung is the classical period of Chinese porcelain.
The last great age of Chinese porcelain came in that long and prosperous reign of Ch'ien lung.
Then, through fifteen bloody years (1850-64) came the T'ai-p'ing Rebellion, running fifteen provinces, destroying six hundred cities, killing twenty million men and women and so impoverishing the Manchu Dynasty that it withdrew its support from the potteries, and allowed them to close their doors and scatter their craftsmen into a disordered world.
the art of porcelain, in China, never recovered from that devastation, and perhaps never will.
What survives is a memory of an art perhaps so completely lost as that of medieval stained glass; try as they will, the potters of Europe have been unable to equal the subtler forms of Chinese porcelain.
Connoisseurs raise with every decade their monetary estimate of the masterpieces that survive; they ask five hundred dollars for a tea cup (as of 1930, it would be far higher now) and receive $23,000 for a Hawthorne vase.
but anyone who has felt, with eyes and fingers and every nerve, the loveliness of Chinese porcelain will resent these valuations, and count them as sacrilege; the world of beauty and the world of money never touch, even when beautiful things are sold.
* It is enough to say that Chinese porcelain is the summit and symbol of Chinese civilization, one of the noblest things that men have done to make their species forgivable on the earth
Durant
Randy ....or to one, who may read this "Panda"
have a nice day, beautiful dawn of spring
love life
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