KOREAN POTTERY & PORCELAIN OF THE YI PERIOD, by G.St.G.M. Gompertz, published by Frederick A. Prager, New York and Washington, c. 1968. The classic work on Korean ceramics from 1393 to the early 20th century. Excellent condition, including dust jacket. 106 pages of text and bibliography followed by 120 large black-and-white photos of representative pieces. Shipping via Media Mail is free. Priority mail at cost.
CHAMBERLAIN-WORCESTER PORCELAIN 1788-1852 by Geoffrey A. Godden. Excellent used condition, including dust jacket. Please see our second and third images for description. About 11" x 8-3/4" x 1-1/2". USPS Priority Mail within the U.S., $15. Elsewhere at cost.
KO-IMARI PORCELAIN FROM THE COLLECTION OF OLIVER IMPEY, by Barry Davies, published by Barry Davies Oriental Art, Ltd., London, c. 1997. This is a Japanese-English bilingual edition (please see our images), consisting of 227 pages of full-color illustrations and descriptions of pieces in the Oliver Impey collection, most dating from the late 17th and 18th centuries. About 12" x 9" x 1". Priority Mail shipping within the U.S., 15.
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Vols. I, II, III, IV, V, VI, VII and VIII of THE SHIBATA COLLECTION of Japanese porcelain from the early 17th to the mid 19th C. About 10" x 9.5". All in excellent nearly new condition. USPS Priority or Media Mail from Virginia at cost.
Hard cover edition consisting of 156 pp. of text and colored photos of what remains of the Dresden Collection of early Japanese porcelain assembled by Augustus the Strong. Orbis Publishing, c. 1981. Good used condition. About 7.75" x 8.75". Media Mail or First Class shipping.
JAPANESE EXPORT PORCELAIN by Oliver Impey, Catalogue of the collection of the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, Hotei Publishing, Amsterdam, c 2002: Japanese porcelain formed an important function in the decorative schemes of European palaces and country houses in the second half of the 17th century, the continuation of which is felt to this day, both in interior decoration and in the innumerable imitations and pastiches that have never been out of fashion. Japanese porcelain was imported into Europe f ...click for details
FINE & CURIOUS by Christiaan J.A. Joerg: An enduring witness to Dutch-Japanese relations is Arita export porcelain made for the Dutch market in the 17th and 18th centuries. The Dutch East India Company (VOC) was instrumental in ordering and distributing a diversity of export wares. Private trade also played an important role. This results in the importation of large amounts of Japanese porcelain into The Netherlands, particularly during a period when Chinese porcelain was unavailable. These ...click for details
CHINESE EXPORT PORCELAIN by D.F. Lunsingh Scheurleer, published by Pitman in New York in 1974. 256 pages, 8 colored plates, 42 (two-sided) pages of black-and-white photos, and countless detailed line drawings throughout. Signs of gentle use but nothing I'd call damage, this book is in very good condition. The late seventeenth- and eighteenth-century porcelain made in China for export to Europe and later to the United States, sometimes referred to as 'Chine de Commande', has a special ...click for details
Geoffrey A. Godden's ORIENTAL EXPORT MARKET PORCELAIN, c. 1979 by Geoffrey A. Godden and published by Granada Publishing, Ltd. About 8.5" x 9.5" x 1-1/8". Though dust jacket is a bit frayed, book in excellent condition. Mr. Godden is widely celebrated for his knowledge of English ceramics but handled as much Chinese porcelain as English. His research on the subject has been exceptionally wide-ranging, and the majority of his sources quoted in this volume were published here fo ...click for details
CHINESE CARVED LACQUER by Derek Clifford, Bamboo Press, first edition, 1992, is an over-size book (11.5" x 10") lavishly illustrated with fine mainly full-color photos of Chinese lacquer / cinnabar from the Ming period through the People's Republic. The book concentrates on the often spectacular varieties of carved lacquer work, and deals with this subject in greater detail than has previously been possible. It provides the reader with a book which will remain a standard reference ...click for details
