Book: Ancient Sichuan (Chinese Han Dynasty and Earlier)
Published price £68.00. Our price £30.00
This fine book is the fully illustrated catalogue of an exhibition of 125 outstanding examples of Chinese bronze, jade and pottery objects dating from the 13th century BC to the 3rd century AD. It really is packed with information about the civilizations of this period in the Sichuan basin in the relatively isolated south-west of China...
Book: Dragon Sea - Vietnamese Hoi An Hoard - Hard Back 1st Edition
This book, "Dragon Sea", by Frank Pope is essentially the story of a 15th century shipwreck that came to be known as the "Hoi An Hoard"...
A pair of important books on Samurai, their history, fighting techniques, armour and weapons. The first book is "Secrets of the Samurai" published in 1973 by Charles E. Tuttle Company Inc. of Rutland, Vermont, USA. This book is a definitive study of the martial arts of feudal Japan, illustrating in detail the weapons, tecfhniques, strategies and principles of combat that made the Japanese warriors a terrible foe...
The size of Ryokusho Book No.28, Speical Edition, 11 3/4" L x 9" W x 1/4"
Weight: 1 Lb 11 Ozs...
The size of Book: 13 3/4" L x 10 1/2" W x 1/4"
The Title of Book: Kakiemon
Total of Page: 99 pages, Total of Color Plates: 180 items...
Frederic Piguet 1270 BREITLING Electromechanical Movement. Cal. 1270, Thirty-Two (32) Jewels, SWISS. For Cartier Pasha and other Brands. Coil cost is $99.00 each and this movement has 5 coils. Cartier is asking $799 for this movement. THIS IS A FINE COLLECTIBLE. INVEST IN HARD ASSETS, DON'T INVEST IN THE STOCK MARKET. BUY SOMETHING PROVEN IN TIME.
We have been selling vintage watches on E-Bay since 1998 as watchco1973 with 13,500 feed backs, 100% positive...
Fine Reference Book for Ancient Chinese Bronzes
Archaic Chinese Bronzes by Christian Deydier
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 illustrated. Included are the relatively recent excavations from the Sichuan Culture site at Sanxingdui...
This is a unused crystal. OMEGA Steel Bezel insert CUSHION CRYSTAL Ref. 166.227 Cal. 1250. 31mm diameter and 3mm high. The Omega Horseshoe Logo is marked centered position on the surface. Genuine, authentic crystal only. THIS IS A FINE COLLECTIBLE. DON'T INVEST IN THE STOCK MARKET. BUY SOMETHING PROVEN IN TIME.
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New Reference Book: Classical Chinese Furniture – Marcus Flacks
Unlike other Asian cultures of the 17th and 18th centuries, the Chinese did not sit on the floor. The simple fact that the Manchu invaders imported highly flexible furniture from their yurts influenced the development of Chinese design and decorative arts...
Bulleting for Society for Japanese Arts: Andon, Shedding Light on Japanese Art. A wonderful resource on all aspects of Japanese art. ISSN: 0168-2997
Issues included: First Year (1981) 1-4; Second Year (1982) 5-7; No. 9-11 (1983).
Condition: shelf wear, staining and soiling. Issue one has extensive creases on back cover.
The slip cover has a couple of scuffs but the book inside is fine/as new. These sell for $400 everywhere else- my price is $200. A must have for aficionados/aficionadas of the QIngbai glaze.
Title: QINGBAI WARE : CHINESE PORCELAIN OF THE SONG...
Publisher: Percival David Foundation
Publication Date: 2002
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Fine.
Edition: First edition.
ISBN 10: 072860339X / ISBN 13: 9780728603394
Complete set of 16 volumes set...
This book sells between $2400 new to $280. used. As this is in excellent condition I would describe as almost new. A few some scuffs on the edge of the dust cover.
ISBN-13: 9789627101161
ISBN-10: 9627101168
Author: KAO, Mayching, editor
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Chinese University of Hong Kong
Published: 1990
This is a great “field guide” for East and Southeast Asia swords, probably the best (and possibly only one) ever written with text in Portuguese and English. Sell’s for $300 (if you can find one).
Gang Tie Wen Ming: Dong Ya Gu Bing Qi = Historia Do Aco Na Asia Oriental : Uma Visao Do Desenvolvimento Da Armaria = History Of Steel In East Asia : A View On the Development Of Weaponry
Macau: Macau Art Museum, 2007. An important monograph and catalogue of the use of steel in ea...
A Panorama of Ceramics in the Collection of the National Palace Museum : Chun Wares
Best book ever written on Jun stoneware, great close ups. In excellent condition, one scuff on upper right hand dust cover, with original box. These sell for $700- $900 on Amazon and the other usual suspects. My price only $300- such a deal!
ISBN-13: 9789575623630
ISBN-10: 9575623630
Author: YU, Pei-Chin
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: National Palace Museum
Published: 1999
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New Reference Book: Chinese Monochrome Porcelain
"A Millennium of Monochromes: From the Great Tang to the High Qing. The Baur and the Zhuyuetang Collections" by
Peter Y.K. Lam; Monique Crick; Laure Schwartz-Arenales.
New and in publisher's original shrink wrap. Published price $100 / £80. Our price: £55.
Publication Date: 2019.
Binding: Hardcover.
391 printed pages. 200 examples of monochrome porcelain photographed in colour (including photographs of the marks) and describ...
An oversized paperback edition published in 1981 by Boscobel Restoration Inc. and Harry Abrams. Text by Berry B. Tracy with painting documentation by Mary Black. 215 illustrations~166 plates in full color. In very good condition.
Book: Concubines and Courtesans: Women in Chinese Erotic Art (F. M. Bertholet).
This dazzling array of exquisite and intimate art from one of the world's most renowned collectors covers more than three centuries of Chinese erotic art. This opulently illustrated volume offers a wide-ranging examination of erotic artefacts from the end of the Ming Dynasty, around 1600, to the heyday of Shanghai in the 1920s. It includes luxurious reproductions of prints, watercolours, oil paintings, ivory carv...