Exotic mania [ Taste & Manners ]
… the Orient attracted the interest of collectors resulting in the exotic modes of chinoiserie and turquerie . Concepts > Taste & Manners Mots-clés Animals Australia Chinoiserie Collecting Commerce Exoticism Menageries North America During the … mode of Chinoiserie fostering politeness Another eighteenth-century exotic mania forging social relationships is the taste for chinoiserie porcelain, one of the artistic manifestations of Le Rêve chinois , which reached its height thanks … by art and design from China, Japan and other Asian countries in the eighteenth century. As a signifier of sophisticated taste, chinoiserie was a fundamental part of polite society in which aristocratic and socially important women used to …
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