Chinoiserie
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(French): The European imitation of Chinese motifs in the mid-18th century, seen most commonly in the decorative arts, but also used for interiors and for the occasional complete building.
chinoiserie A European decorating style using Chinese and other "oriental" ornamentation, most fashionable in the 17th and 18th centuries.
clerestory A row of windows located near the top of the wall of a nave or room or other space.
Chinoiserie
European adaptation of Oriental designs popular during late 17th century French, Rococo and Regency periods. Motifs used include pagodas, fretwork, landscapes, and rivers.
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Chinoiserie
a Western style popular in the eighteenth century, reflecting Chinese motifs or qualities.
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Chinoiserie / Japonoiserie / Japanning
- European interpretation of chinese art. Became very fashionable in the late eighteenth century, a number of pagodas were built, but it was a style most evident in internal decoration.
chinoiserie
anything typically Chinese or made in a Chinese manner.
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In the mainstream of Georgian style were both Palladian architecture- and its whimsical alternatives, Gothic and Chinoiserie, which were the English-speaking world's equivalent of European Rococo.
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Georgian architecture in Britain was, like Victorian in Canada, the term used for all styles of architecture created during the reign of the Kings George. These included Palladian, Gothic and Chinoiserie or Exotic.
In architecture it saw the rise of Palladianism; the styles of Robert Adam; the fashions for Rococo, Chinoiserie, Gothick and Hindoo. It also embraced early Gothic and Greek revivals and Neoclassicism.
 See also: Architecture, House, Gothic, Classical, Frame
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