Tag Archives: porcelain
Tanabata festival
The beautiful Imari five-piece garniture set which the Van Diepen Foundation recently acquired is decorated with a scene in which three women hang various colored ribbons (with text) from branches.
Five-piece garniture set with Tanabata painting
Now we have been able to link this to an old legend and the current Japanese Tanabata festival.
Partly because of a Japanese print from ca.1718 from the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, with a similar depiction to the vases, it can be linked to the legend and the festival still celebrated in Japan.
New virtual exhibitions
The Virtual Van Diepen Museum
On these special pages you can view two new exhibitions with artworks of the Jan Menze van Diepen Foundation in combination with interesting data.
Go along through the virtual rooms with the various beautiful objects from the collection.
Click on the picture and imagine yourself back in the museum.
1. A virtual exhibition with centuries-old Japanese ceramics.
Click on the photo and step inside the virtual exhibition.
2. A virtual exhibition with a combination of graphics by Riekele Prins, the City of Groningen and a selection of visual art from the collection.
Click on the photo and enter the virtual exhibition.
CHINA CHARACTER
THE STORY ON PORCELAIN
Exhibition from 25 March 2017 till 22 October 2017
Gemeentemuseum The Hague
Elegant brushstrokes with an instant appeal to the imagination: Chinese characters have something truly magical about them. Not only because of their intrinsic beauty –to Western eyes at least – but also because of their wonderful symbolism and the often extraordinary stories they can tell.
From 25 March, the Kunstmuseum of The Hague shows a special selection of Chinese objects out of the Van Diepen collection among chinese porcelain from other collections.
The exhibition China Character lets Chinese porcelain speak for itself by Continue reading
Selection from the collection Oriental ceramics
Second catalogue about the collection of the Jan Menze van Diepen Stichting.
This publication is dedicated to export porcelain from China and Japan. Van Diepen’s rich collection of about 2500 pieces contains many interesting and rare specimens, of which 145 are depicted and described in this catalogue.
The selection was made by Prof. Dr. Christiaan Jörg, curator of the Groningen Museum and an international recognized specialist in the field of Eastern export porcelain. Mentioned from his many publications in this field can be The Geldermalsen, History and Porcelain (1986) and Chinese Ceramics in the Collection of the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam (1997).
Author: Prof. Dr. C.J.A. Jörg
Isbn.nr: 90 805793 2 7
Number of pages: 216
Available as:
Luxury hardback version € 35,=
Soft cover version € 25,=
Can be ordered at: Fraeylemaborg in Slochteren.