TY - BOOK ID - 8650691 TI - Sensuous surfaces : the decorative object in early modern China PY - 2010 SN - 1282934791 9786612934797 1861898460 9781861898463 PB - Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press, DB - UniCat KW - Art objects, Chinese. KW - Art, Chinese -- Ming-Qing dynasties, 1368-1912. KW - Decoration and ornament -- China -- History -- Ming-Qing dynasties, 1368-1912. KW - Decorative arts -- China -- History -- Ming-Qing dynasties, 1368-1912. KW - Decorative arts KW - History KW - Chinese art objects UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:8650691 AB - ?Sensuous Surfaces is a systematic introduction to the decorative arts in Ming and Qing dynasty China. Jonathan Hay's analysis takes in both material and technique, and also issues of patronage and taste, which together formed a loose system of informal rules that affected every level of decoration in early modern China, from an individual object to the arrangement of an entire residential interior. By engaging the actual and metaphoric potential of surface, this system guided the production and use of the decorative arts during a period of explosive growth, which started in the late sixt ER -