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3 volumes on blue and white porcelain. CHINESE PORCELAIN COLLECTIONS
IN THE NEAR EAST, TOPKAPI and ARDEBIL - Misugi T. Hong Kong
1981. 3 Volumes. Volume 1. Introduction. Historical backgound,
Original, Designs, Motifs etc. Vol.2 The Topkapi Palace Museum.
Vol. 3. The Ardebil Shrine Collection. Total of 958 pages. 424
black & white plates & 88 tipped in colour plates. Original
blue cloth binding as published. Good to very good set. Originally published in a Japanese Limited edition this is the completely revised English edition of 1981. Volume one is a complete background to Chinese ceramics and includes a detailed 60 page section on the designs & motifs on blue & white porcelain up to the 16th century.. Volume two covers the several thousand pieces of porcelains in the Tokapi Palace museum collection in Istanbul, Turkey. Again mostly blue & white wares up to the 18th century. Volume three examines the Ardebil collection in Iran of some 800 pieces of again mostly blue & white porcelain. |
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| C314)
CHINESE BLUE & WHITE PORCELAIN -
Yeo S.T. & Martin J. 1978. Singapore. 315 pages. 230 full
page colour plates illustrating over 450 items in colour. Hardback.
Dust wrapper. Very good copy. One of the most useful pictorial guides to blue & white wares from early Ming to the 19th century. Good introductory articles and illustrated index to painted designs and symbols. All items well photographed and patterns, base marks etc. clearly visible. A much sought after publication based on an exhibition of Chinese blue & white at the National Museum of Singapore. |
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| C315)
KRAAK PORCELAIN. The Rise of Global Trade in the Late 16th and
early 17th Centuries - Jorg Walsh
2008. Introduction and catalogue entries by Teresa Canepa. Additional
articles by Christine van der Pijl-Ketel. 332 pages. 193 colour
illustrations. Plus inserted folding supplement with 85 colour
illustrations of further pieces. Hardback. d/w. Inscribed
to Geoffrey Godden thanking him for buying the first copy of
this book from Jorg Walsh. Very good. ( The current retail
price is £150.00). The large and important exhibition catalogue of Kraak porcelain the first Jingdezhen blue and white export porcelain that was mass produced and shipped around the world. The introductory articles cover important archaeological discoveries of Kraak porcelain in Jiangxi provenance; materials and decoration of Kraak ware; archaeological evidence of the Portuguese, Spanish and Dutch trade; and underwater recoveries from datable shipwrecks. Fifty-nine items including exceptional and rare pieces are comprehensively studied. |
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| C316)
Exhibition. BLANC DE CHINE - S. Marchant & Son November
1st - 17th 2006. Introduction by John Ayres. 156 pages. 152 colour
illustrations. Hardback, d/w. Very good. A collection of wares formed over an 8 year period by Richard & Stuart Marchant. Many of the pieces obtained from some 20 private collections worldwide. The 120 pieces are well illustrated and include base marks where present. |
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| C305)
THE BOOK OF PORCELAIN . The manufacture,
transport and sale of export porcelain in China during the eighteenth
century, illustrated by a contemporary series of Chinese watercolours
- Staehelin W.A. 1966. 86 pages of text. 34 full page tipped
in colour plates. d/w. Large format. Very good copy in cellophane
protected dustjacket. A unique series of watercolours dating from between 1735 and 1745 in full colour illustrating the complete manufacturing , transportation and trading process in great detail. Showing the various stages of clay preparation to the firing and decoration and the purchases by manadarins and merchants. The first 20 plates are accompanied by a 1743 translated description of the scenes by T'ang Ying the chief overseer of the imperial porcelain factory. The remaining plates illustrate and describe the journeys of Chinese Hong merchants to Ching-te-Chen, the orders they placed and the transport of the porcelain to Canton. |
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| C306)
Exhibition. TWO HUNDRED YEARS OF CHINESE PORCELAIN 1522-1722 - Marchant & Son. London 1998. 88 pages. 82 colour
Illustrations plus base marks.. Hardback. d/w. Very good. With a forward by D.S, Freeman and introduction by J. Ayres. All 65 items in colour. |
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| C307)
THE POWELL COTTON COLLECTION of CHINESE CERAMICS - Lang. G. 1988. 152 pages. 40 full page colour plates.
62 b/w illustrations. Soft card covers. Good clean copy. The collection of two groups of porcelain of mostly 18th and 19th centuries. The first part is of Export wares and the second of Imperial or Chinese taste wares. Nearly 100 items are illustrated in the colour plates and all are illustrated in the black & white section of 124 items. |
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| C308)
Sale. THE PEONY PAVILION COLLECTION: Chinese Tea Ceramics for
Japan (C.1580-1650)- Christie's. June
12th 1989.401 items. 206 items in colour. Hardback. Price list.
A unique collection formed in Japan, by one family over six generations, of late Ming Chinese export ceramics made for the Japanese market. With a 7 page introduction to the collection and on the Japanese tea ceremony. Unusual examples in both blue & white and polychrome designs. |
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| C309)
An Exhibition of TANG SANCAI POTTERY. Selected from the collection
of Alan and Simone Hartman - International
Ceramic Fair London . June 1989. Compiled and introduced by Margaret
Medley. 80 pages. 41 colour plates. Softback colour covers. Very
good. The exhibition of 47 pieces illustrated in large and strikingly detailed photographs. |
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| C310)
PAKTONG. The Chinese Alloy in Europe 1680-1820 - Pinn K. 1999. 188 pages. 166 b/w illustrations
& 16 colour plates. Hardback. d/w. Very good. Paktong the rare silver coloured Chinese alloy of Copper, Nickel and Zinc which was first recorded by Western travellers in the 17th century. The first book since the John & Coombes publication of1970 and based on the authors' collection and new research into the subject. |
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| C311)
Sale. FINE CHINESE PORCELAIN and Works of Art. Property of the
late W.A. Evill - Sotheby & Co. November 30th 1965. 126
lots. 64 illustrated in the b/w plates. Soft. Good. Price &
buyers list. Penned notes. A collection of Ming & Ching wares and some Dutch decorated porcelain. Many rare examples including 2 blanc-de-chine groups of hunting and a Dutch family, Biscuit porcelain supper set. |
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| C312)
THE CHINESE EXHIBITION. A Commemorative Catalogue of the International
Exhibition of Chinese Art. Royal Academy of Arts November 1935-March
1936 - Faber & Faber 1936. 508
pages. 353 black & white illustrations and one colour plates.
Large format hardback in dust wrapper and clear protective sleeve.
A good copy some minor foxing . Private library armorial book
plate. The historic Chinese exhibition that included over 100 Chinese national treasures of which around 30% are of ceramics. This volume includes the revised version of the original text only exhibition that had no illustrations. |
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| C313) ORIENTAL CERAMIC ART . Illustrated by Examples from The Collection of W.T. Walters -Bushell S.W. New York 1981. Reprint of the 1897 10 volume set. 504 pages. 116 colour plates & 411 b/w illustrations. d/w. Large.Wear to edges an back of wrapper otherwise very good. Dealing only with ceramics and originally published in 10 volumes in limited edition of 500 sets in 1897 each volume measuring 22"x17". This reprint is complete with a small reduction in scale. With text and history by Stephen Bushell on this enormous American ceramic collection. While its emphasis is on the ceramics of China, it also has sections on Japan and Korea. It contains numerous translations of important Chinese documents into English including the detailed description of Chinese porcelain manufacture written in 1743 by Tang Ying director of the Imperial porcelain manufactory. |
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| C303)
CHINESE ARMORIAL PORCELAIN for the Dutch Market - Dr. Joechem Kroes. 2007. 718 pages. 598 colour illustrations
& 46 black & white. Large hardback in wrapper. Dr. Kroes is a Genealogist with a special interest in 18th century Chinese porcelain and heraldry. This thorough and comprehensive work documents and illustrates 455 of the known 500 Dutch services of this period. The first 100 pages covers Decoration and Styles, Services and Shapes, Dutch Family heraldry, The Commissioners of Armorial Porcelain in the Dutch East Indies and in the Netherlands, Socio-Economic Backgrounds of the Commissionaires and Summary and Conclusions. This part of the book has 100 colour illustrations and 17 black & white . Then follows the main catalogue of Chinese Porcelain with Coats of Arms of some 455 entries. All give details of the piece, the family name of the coat of arms, history and background to the family. Many have further information on descendants, whereabouts of other pieces, illustrations of sources of design etc. For example one entry describes the descendants moving to Scotland and parts of the service taken there. Then follows a section of unidentified or probable Dutch services and a reference to all the services indexed by border or main design and further reference sources. |
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| C301)
EASTERN CERAMICS from the Collection of Gerald Reitlinger. Exhibition
1981 - Ashmolean 1981. 160 pages .With
441 items all illustrated in black & white.Soft covers. Good.
Over 440 items of Chinese, Japanese and Islamic ceramics with a small section of delft & German stoneware from the Ashmolean Museum. |
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| C300)
LATER CHINESE PORCELAIN - Jenyns S. 4th and last edition
1971. 220 pages. 229 black & white illustrations. & 6
colour plates. Hardback. Wrapper. Good clean copy A study of the later Ching dynasty wares from 1644 to the turn of the 20th century. This is the last edition with corrections and two new colour plates and a 3 page forward by Garner. |
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| C201) EUROPEAN DECORATION on ORIENTAL PORCELAIN - Espir H. November 2005. 272 pages. 212 colour and
22 black & white illustrations. Hardback. Dust wrapper. The first book to examine the work of European decorators on oriental porcelain throughout the 18th and early 19th centuries focusing on enamellers in Holland, Germany and England. Their wide range of styles and subjects of decoration are fully illustrated in colour along with comments on the social, historic and economic background of the pieces. The latest research from scholars in America, Great Britain, Germany and the Netherlands is included. From the English collector's point of view this is a fascinating subject and examples of these porcelains were to be found in collections such as Robert Drane and Bernard Watney. |
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C88) MING PORCELAINS. A Retrospective - Valenstein S.G. China House Gallery New York. Loan
Exhibition October 1970 - January 1971. 104 pages. 82 b/w illustrations.
Soft colour covers. Good. An American loan exhibition from private and museum collections. |
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| C93)
MEIJI CERAMICS. The art of Japanese Export Porcelain and Satsuma
ware 1868 - 1912 - Gisela Jahn. 2005.
360 pages. 230 colour illustrations & 23 b/w. Plus 84 illustrations
of base marks. Large hardback. d/w. Very good. An impressive and very well researched publication that examines the history of Japanese Export porcelain in the Meiji era covering all aspects but with an emphasis on the stylistic influence from the west. Includes ceramic production of Arita, Kutani, Kyoto, Satsuma, Seto and Tokyo by artist-craftsmen such as Ito Tozan, Kanzan Denshichi, Kinkozan Sobei, Miyagawa Kozan, Siefu Yohei and others. With wonderful archive photographs of painters and potters at work in the late 19th century and some displays from the Vienna, Paris, Chicago, London and other exhibitions. A complete and absorbing work by an author who has spent many years visiting Japan and has taught Japanese ceramics at Heidelberg University and in Berlin and she provides a vast amount of fresh research from Japanese sources. |
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| C211)
CHINESE POTTERY AND PORCELAIN. An Account of the Potters Art
in China from primitive time to the Present Day - Hobson R.L. 1976 reprint of the 1915 original.
499 pages. 96 b/w plates and 40 colour plates. Softback. Colour
covers. Good copy. The original 1915 edition was in 2 volumes and is reprinted here as one volume but complete and unabridged and at a reasonable price. |
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| C204)
CHINESE EXPORT PORCELAIN. Chine de Commande.
Scheurleer D.F. Lunsingh. 1974. 256pp. 8 col. & 84 b/w plates.
Illustrates 369 items.Hardback. Worn dust wrapper Good.The English
translated edition. Ex-library copy, withdrawn. A detailed study of Chinese export wares of the 17th and 18th centuries by the Dutch expert Lunsingh Scheurleer. Extensive information on the Dutch East India company as well as the ceramics themselves. |
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| C76)
. THE TWO QUAIL PATTERN. 300 Years of Design on Porcelain -Dr. Chris Girton. 2004. Forward by Geoffrey Godden.
112 pages. 130 colour illustrations. Over 200 items are illustrated.
Soft covers. Only 500
copies have been published, no reprints. Last few copies, soon
out of print. For over 300 years quails have been represented on ceramics, particularly porcelain, as popular study subjects. This first complete study of quail decoration examines porcelain from the 17th to 20th centuries covering 50 known factories and 120 pattern variations including Japanese, Chinese, European and British ceramics. The publication will be launched on the 6th of May to coincide with a loan exhibition at Stockspring Antiques in London from the 6th to the 20th of May and further exhibition at the Museum of Worcester from July. We will be supplying all copies outside of the 2 exhibitions. Any advance orders will be mailed out just prior to the launch date. We will have a review copy in the next 10 days, telephone for further information. |
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CHINESE DECORATIVE ART -Fedderson
M. Faber 1961. 2nd edition fully revised with new illustrations.
286 pages. 221 b/w illustrations & 8 colour plates. Marks.
Cloth. Very good. Covering Ceramics, Metalwork, Bronze Mirrors, Laquer Work, Textile in detail. With a chapter on the iconography and introductory historical survey. |
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| C11)
FIGURAL JAPANESE EXPORT CERAMICS - Schiffer N.N. 2002.
208 pages. 310 colour illustrations. Value guide. Hardback. Late 19th and early 20th century figures from Hirado, Imari, Kutani, Satsuma, Studio wares etc. From the 1862 Exposition in London through to the early 1920's, this work examines the courtesans, gods, demons , animals and other figures, the artists and their marks |
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| C17) Loan Exhibition.
THE DRAGON and THE QUAIL. English Kakiemon Porcelain - February/March 2000. Stockspring Antiques.
40 pages. 32 colour illustrations.Soft. ( for an illustration
of the cover see EX1 in The GALLERY
Antonia Agnew and Felicity Marno of Stockspring Antiques in London have assembled a stunning collection of Japanese inspired wares from Chelsea, Bow, Worcester and a few rare examples from other English factories. Also included are some original Japanese pieces and few represenative items from Meissen and elsewhere. The 93 examples are all illustrated in colour with informative descriptions and with a forward by Anthony du Boulay. |
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| C20)
JAPANESE PORCELAIN 1800-1950 - Schiffer N. 2000. Revised
and expanded 2nd Edition. 256 pages. 600 illustration, mostly
colour. Value guide.Hardback. The new revised edition with added research information on 19th & 20th century Japanese wares. Recent and past attribution theories are discussed and extra illustrations on the Kakieomon, Satsuma, Imari, Arita and other wares. |
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| C21) NORITAKE
FOR EUROPE - Murphy P. 2001. 192 pages.
584 colour illust. Price guides. Hardback. The first book dedicated to Noritake ceramics exported to Europe between 1891 and 1939. The tablewares, tea services, dressing table sets, vases and other ornamental wares all in colour. Many of the attractive patterns such as the painted landscapes of desert scenes and the swan river bank scenes are illustrated on most shapes or forms. The exotic patterns and elaborate gilding provide a variety of designs for a variety of tastes. The European influence seen in the shapes and decoration shows how the Japanese were influenced by European design in the early 20th, century which was the reverse of the last quarter of the 19th century. Value guides are given in English pounds. |
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| C23)
JAPANESE EXPORT CERAMICS 1860-1920 -
Schiffer N. 2000. 224 pages. 516 colour illust. Price guide.d/w.
£ 39.95 50% of this new publication is devoted to Satsuma wares with illustrations of base marks. With chapters on Kutani, Hirado and another on imari that includes a range of figures. |
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| C28) IMARI, SATSUMA and Other Japanese Export Ceramics
- Nancy N. Schiffer . New edition
2000. Revised & enlarged. 204 pages. 600 Colour illustrations.
With value guide.d/w. New revised edition with updated prices and added illustrations. A fine full colour guide to the Imari and Satsuma wares of Japan and including two chapters on Banko earthenware and Sumida Pottery. |
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| C214)
Sale. CHINESE EXPORT PORCELAIN from the Collection of Jorge Getulio
Veiga. Sotheby 31st August 1989. 291 lots. 108 in colour
&138 in b/w. Soft. Very good. Includes items for the Portugese & Brazilian market and with many armorials, European subjects etc.etc. |
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| C217)
MING PORCELAINS. Their Origins & Development - Joseph A.M. Lund Humphries 1971. 78 pages. 131
b/w illust. 1 colour. Hardback. A study that accompanied an exhibition of the time. Includes numerous charts using x-ray spectographic analysis of the cobalt decorated porcelain. |
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| C218)
NORITAKE COLLECTABLES A to Z: A Pictorial Record & Guide
to Values. Spain D. 1999. 304pp. 1023
colour & 220 b/w photos. Price guide. d/w. Japanese Noritake porcelain dishes and figurines are represented here by more than 1000 pieces in Classical, Art Nouveau, and Art Deco styles with both lustre and non-lustre finishes. A wide variety of postwar bone china figurines and recent collector-series items appear with current prices for collectors. |
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| C219)
Sale Christies (London) Fine CHINESE EXPORT PORCELAIN and Paintings
July 5th & 6th 1984 150 pages. 715 lots 296 lots illustrated.34
In colour. Price list Yes Soft. Fine. 401 lots of ceramics. Rare figures including mule, elephants & merchant. Doctors visit saucer-dishes. Rare blue & white. Paintings include Hongs, porcelain production. |
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| C220)
HANDBOOK OF POTTERY AND PORCELAIN OF THE FAR EAST. Hobson R.L. 1937. 180pp. 260 b/w illust. Boards. Apart from Chinese ceramics, Japanese are included along with small sections on Korean & Siamese wares. |
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| C221)
OLD CHINESE PORCELAIN - Mew E. 1910.
Masterpiece series. 108 pages. 8 colour & 8 b/w plates. Original
colour & gilt hardback covers. Good clean copy. The Chinese volume from the masterpieces of handicraft series. |
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| C223) Sale. 1990. Christie's. THE JARRAS COLLECTION.
Part 1: FINE CHINESE EXPORT PORCELAIN - June
13th. 113 lots. All 113 lots illustrated in colour. Soft. A few
penned notes. Good. An exquisite collection of polychrome and blue & white painted designs including items such as the Doctors visit (after Pronk), jousting armoured warriors, a confrontation of dragons etc. A mixture of blue & white, famille rose and western designs. |
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| C224)
CHINESE PORCELAIN FROM THE ADDIS COLLECTION . Addis J.M.
1979 52 pages of text 22 colour plates & 22 b/w illustrations.Cloth
in d/w. 22 pieces of Ching teh chen porcelain presented to the British museum all shown in colour and prominent features again in b/w. |
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