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“Nothing Succeeds Like Excess.” Oscar Wilde

Posted by Adrienne Morris on
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

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  1. jmmcdowell says:
    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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    1. Middlemay Farm says:
      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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