“Nothing Succeeds Like Excess.” Oscar Wilde

September 30, 2014 / Adrienne Morris

Chronic Chinamania (incurable)

Chronic Chinamania (incurable)

Everyone LOVED blue and white china!

http://www.washingtonpost.com/gog/exhibits/chinamania-whistler-and-the-victorian-craze-for-blue-and-white,1168679.html

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/chinamania-now-open-at-the-freer-gallery-388091/?no-ist

http://www.victorianweb.org/art/design/ceramics/haslam1.html

2 thoughts on ““Nothing Succeeds Like Excess.” Oscar Wilde”

jmmcdowell

October 2, 2014 at 10:43 pm

I have excavated and analyzed more blue-and-white ceramics than I can probably count!

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- Middlemay Farm
  
  October 3, 2014 at 11:50 am
  
  I think I may become a chinamaniac just for fun. As an archaeologist did you begin to get bored of the china or did each piece teach you something new?
  
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