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Anna Grasskamp investigates display practices of the sixteenth and seventeenth century in China and Europe. The book provides an in-depth analysis of the processes through which foreign artifacts and natural objects were framed in early modern collections. Material exchanges between China and Europe have a long history in which complex culturally defined processes of object appropriation play a role. Anna Grasskamp investigates display practices of the sixteenth and seventeenth century in China and Europe providing an in-depth analysis of the processes through which foreign artifacts and natural objects were framed in early modern collections. While the first two chapters focus on the appropriation of artifacts through the examples of porcelain vessels and scientific instruments in metal mounts, the books later chapters analyze the staging of foreign nature in Renaissance and Ming collecting through the case of coral.

Art --- Collectibles --- S17/1850 --- S17/1900 --- S17/1000 --- S17/1800 --- Collectables --- Memorabilia --- Collectors and collecting --- Souvenirs (Keepsakes) --- Art, Occidental --- Art, Primitive --- Art, Visual --- Art, Western (Western countries) --- Arts, Fine --- Arts, Visual --- Fine arts --- Iconography --- Occidental art --- Visual arts --- Western art (Western countries) --- Arts --- Aesthetics --- Exhibition techniques --- History --- China: Art and archaeology--Chinese export art --- China: Art and archaeology--Foreign art in China (e.g. Castiglione) --- China: Art and archaeology--Precious materials: general --- China: Art and archaeology--Influence on Foreign art (incl. Chinoiserie) --- History of civilization --- collections [object groupings] --- exoticism --- collecting --- collectibles --- exhibiting --- cultural diffusion --- material culture [genre] --- anno 1500-1599 --- anno 1600-1699 --- Europe --- China