How Long to Read Mounted Oriental Porcelain in the J. Paul Getty Museum

How Long Does it Take to Read Mounted Oriental Porcelain in the J. Paul Getty Museum?

It takes the average reader 1 hour and 45 minutes to read Mounted Oriental Porcelain in the J. Paul Getty Museum by F. J. B. Watson

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

Ever since the Middle Ages it was the practice in Europe to mount exotic objects such as oriental porcelain in settings of precious or semiprecious metal as tribute to their rarity and value. In the seventeenth century, when Chinese and Japanese porcelains began to reach the West in considerable quantities, the practice continued, especially in France. With the opening of the eighteenth century, it became increasingly fashionable in Parisian society to decorate the interiors of houses with Far Eastern materials such as lacquer and mounted porcelain. This taste was catered to by the marchands-merciers, members of a guild who combined the functions of the modern interior decorator, the antique dealer, and the picture dealer. These men devised highly ingenious settings for Far Eastern porcelains to adapt their exotic character to the French interiors of the period. At first these were of silver (occasionally even gold); later, during the Rococo period when gilding was very lavishly used for the decoration of walls, furniture, light fittings, etc., gilt bronze was the material generally adopted. The marchands-merciers not only designed such mounts and employed some of the most skillful craftsmen of the day to execute them but also marketed them. The survival of the account book of one of their number, Lazare Duvaux, whose shop Au Chagrin de Turquie in the rue Saint Honoré was patronized by the most fashionable sections of Parisian society, has provided us with an immense amount of information about mounted oriental porcelain, its makers, its cost, who collected it, and so on. This information has been drawn on in cataloguing the Getty Museum’s collection of mounted oriental porcelain, which is unusually large and of exceptionally high quality.

How long is Mounted Oriental Porcelain in the J. Paul Getty Museum?

Mounted Oriental Porcelain in the J. Paul Getty Museum by F. J. B. Watson is 104 pages long, and a total of 26,416 words.

This makes it 35% the length of the average book. It also has 32% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Mounted Oriental Porcelain in the J. Paul Getty Museum Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 2 hours and 24 minutes to read Mounted Oriental Porcelain in the J. Paul Getty Museum aloud.

What Reading Level is Mounted Oriental Porcelain in the J. Paul Getty Museum?

Mounted Oriental Porcelain in the J. Paul Getty Museum is suitable for students ages 10 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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