Painted by fire: Jean Theodore Royer's Chinese enameled plaques - Collection from the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam - Critical Essay

Magazine Antiques, Feb, 2004 by Jan Van Campen

(20) Christiaan J. A. Jorg, Porcelain and the Dutch China Trade, trans. Patricia Wardle (M. Nijhoff, The Hague, 1982), pp. 64-71.

(21) For the volatility of Chinese art and applied art, see Craig Clunas, Art in China, Oxford History of Art (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1997), especially chap. 5, "Art in the Market Place," particularly p. 181.

(22) This article is an adaptation of my article "'In't vuur geschilderd': Geemailleerde platen van koper en porselein uit de collectie J. Th. Royer (1737-1807)," in Bulletin van het Rijksmuseum, vol. 50, no. 1 (2002), pp. 2-27.

JAN VAN CAMPEN is the curator of the Asian departments of the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, and of the Museum het Princessehof, Leeuwarden, the national museum for ceramics in the Netherlands.