Chinoiserie

シノワズリ / 17th–18th century / Style / Cross-cultural Reception

Europe's imagined China: longing for imported porcelain and lacquer unfolded into wallpaper, furniture and garden pagodas, joined to Rococo lightness. Read it as a decorative world born of desire, not description.

Fantasized Eastern motifs / Pagodas and lattices / Lacquer and porcelain textures / Continuous wallpaper scenes

Chinoiserie — ヘルブルン宮殿の中国の間（CC BY-SA 4.0） — ヘルブルン宮殿の中国の間（CC BY-SA 4.0）／中国の間の壁紙（CC BY-SA 4.0）

Chinoiserie — 中国の間の壁紙（CC BY-SA 4.0） — ヘルブルン宮殿の中国の間（CC BY-SA 4.0）／中国の間の壁紙（CC BY-SA 4.0）

Dictionary entry

Best used for: Comparing primary sources and canonical works · Extracting principles that transfer to other media
Type: Observe the letters, signs and scale of reference works
Composition: Extract the one structure that governs gaze and information
Material: Verify the materials and behaviors specific to era, region and process
Caution: Don't reuse it as innocent exoticism. Handle the distance between image and reality, including the history of appropriation.
Further study: export lacquer and porcelain / the Royal Pavilion at Brighton / the critique of Orientalism

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