Abstract
This chapter begins to understand the fast, fluid, and far-reaching currents of the transmission of European medieval art, it studies objects made by and/or for expatriate Europeans resident in China under Mongol rule. A unique part of Yuan visual culture, European ways of making and seeing objects existed in Sino-Mongol contexts - namely for court, merchants and the Church - like those of Europe. Rather, by examining the cases of a French goldsmith active at the court of Mongke Khan, of tombstones made for the children of a Genoese merchant, and of pictures made by and for Franciscan missions, the chapter shows, in a limited way, how European objects in Yuan China spoke languages - firstly, of mimetic form; secondly, of iconography, pictorial convention, and text; and, thirdly, of materiality - that made them meaningful to local audiences, delimited spheres of expatriate European medieval visual culture, and participated in a transregional European medieval art. Keywords:china; Europe; Expatriate Merchant; French; Mongke Khan; Materiality; medieval art; Sino-Mongol; visual culture
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