This superbly produced book covers the first known Chinese bronzes through to and including those produced by the Shang Dynasty. It is very well researched and packed full of interesting background information as well as being extensively illustrate ...click for details
Book: British Museum - Ancient China
Gilded Dragons (Buried Treasures from China's Golden Ages)
This fine book, Gilded Dragons by Carol Michaelson, is published by the British Museum Press. The first approximate one third of the book concerns itself with the Zhou, Qin & Han dynasties (770 BC - AD 220) whilst the rest of the book ...click for details
This really is a very interesting book and invaluable for any serious collector of ancient Chinese ceramics. It is essentially a catalogue published in 1981 by the Oriental Ceramic Society of an exhibition lent by the People's Republic of China that was held at the British Museum, London in 1980.
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Fine Reference Book for Chinese Porcelain: Imperial Taste
Chinese Ceramics from the Percival David Foundation
This fine book fully describes and illustrates in colour 56 "supreme" and "priceless" examples of Chinese ceramics, many once owed by Chinese emperors, from the world-class collection of the Percival David Founda ...click for details
This is volume 29 of the excellent series published in Japan in 1985, Chinese Ceramics in Chinese Collections and details ceramics found in Yunnan province dating from the Neolithic period to the 20th century. Included among the 158 items shown in chronological order are many Yuan Dynasty "Yuxi" wares and also, surprisingly, a few examples of Song / Yuan Dynasty Buddhis ...click for details
A full colour exhibition catalogue of ceramics with coloured decoration dating from around AD 700 to 1920 produced by the Oriental Ceramic Society in 2006.
224 items are included, each being illustrated in colour, described and dated. The majority of items included are Chinese but Japanese porcelain is also included and there are also a few English and European examples. ...click for details
DPRK / North Korean Book: Koryo Dynasty Celadon / Bronze
The great leader President Kim Il Sung said: "The people of Koryo greatly developed the printing industry by inventing metal type for the first time in the world and manufactured the Koryo ceramics which the world values as treasures because of their distinctive colours, patterns and models. All these made our country famous".
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Fine Reference Book - Chinese 18th Century Porcelain
Griffin (East India Company ship carrying Chinese 18th Century Export Porcelain)
The results and conclusions of 15 years work are presented here, detailing the research, restoration and preservation of thousands of items found on the wreck of the Honourable East India Company ship "G ...click for details
Four Reference Books for Chinese Porcelain: Percival David Foundation
1) Ming Polychrome Wares
An illustrated stapled catalogue of enamelled Ming Dynasty wares with a ten page introductory essay and detailed dating and descriptions of each example. 60 printed pages. 141 black & white illustrations over 16 pages. 24.5 x 19cm.
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