An Interesting & Rare Collection of 30 Parliamentary and Consular Reports on Japan 1856-1912. These reports were presented to both houses of Parliament by command of Queen Victoria and form a valuable research tool for the study of relations between Great Britain and Japan in the most momentous episode in Japanese history, the Restoration of the Emperor in 1868, which brought to an end the Shogunate and the Edo Period...

Book: Ancient Sichuan (Chinese Han Dynasty and Earlier)

Published price £61.00. Our price £35.00

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: Blue & White Chinese Porcelain - Percival David Collection

This well-produced book describes and illustrates 60 fine examples of blue & white porcelain from the Percival David Collection covering the Yuan, Ming & Qing dynasties. There is an 8 page introduction.

These are cloth-bound hardback books with a paper jacket. Size 21 x 23.5 cm. 142 printed pages...

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...

Book: China Dawn of a Golden Age 200 - 750 AD (Chinese Han to Tang Dynasties)

Published price £45.00. Our price £30.00.

This fine book is the fully illustrated catalogue of an exhibition of 247 outstanding examples of Chinese works of art from the period 200 - 750 AD. The items include ceramics, textiles, stone, jade, bronze, silver, gold, painting, calligraphy, wood as well as items made from other materials, most excavated in recent years and not previously seen outside China...

Book: Chinese Jade, Neolithic to 20th Century - "The Immortal Stone"

Published price £29.95. Our price £20.00.

This fine book covers all anyone needs to know about Chinese Jade, concentrating on the fine collection of Chinese jades in The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge. Jades from the Neolithic period to the Qing dynasty and 20th century are described, discussed and illustrated. Included are jades from the Qing imperial court...

Book: Dragon Sea - Vietnamese Hoi An Hoard

Published price £18.99. Our price £10.00.

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"...

Book: Origins of Thai Art

Published price £22.50. Our price £12.00

This books covers the origins and history of Thai art from Neolithic times (c. 2300 BC) up to the 13th century AD. See our images for more information.

Cloth bound hardback with a paper jacket. Size 26 x 23.5 cm. 196 printed pages...

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Book: Percival David Chinese Porcelain - Rare Marks

This fine book is the fully illustrated catalogue of an exhibition of 76 outstanding examples of Chinese porcelain made between the 15th and 19th centuries, all with rare marks. From the 16th century, people ordering ceramics from the Jingdezhen and other kilns had the possibility of inscribing the wares with their own names...

British Museum Book- The First Emperor - Qin Dynasty

Published price £40.00. Our price £20.00.

This fine book is the fully illustrated catalogue of an exhibition of 134 outstanding examples of Chinese antiquities from the time of the Kingdom of Qin and the Qin Dynasty. This books covers so much more than just the well-known Terracotta Army. Excavated jade, bronze and pottery objects, figures and animals are illustrated and described in detail...

British Museum Book- The Terracotta Warriors

Published price £9.99. Our price £6.00.

This is a small yet well-produced book, more a picture book than anything, and is a good introduction to the subject of the First Emperor of China and The Terracotta Warriors. There are many fine close-up photos of individual soldiers from the Terracotta Army, as well as some other photos...

For sale by auction. Please click on the "auctioned" link for detailed images and a description....

A Rare French Chiaroscuro Woodblock & Etched Print by Nicolas Le Sueur After a Painting by Joseph Cesari Ca. 1730 17 1/4 x 10 1/2 ins. (43.8 x 26.6 cms) Although the use of relief woodblocks for printing goes back to the medieval period in Italy it was little used in later periods having been supplanted by etching, engraving, mezzotint etc. There were brief revivals of the technique in France and England in the 18th. century notably by John Baptist Jackson in England and Nicolas Le Sueur in F...

Chinese 19th Century Blue & White Porcelain Box with Inscription

This blue & white porcelain box was made during the 19th century. It is of particularly fine quality compared to others of its type we have seen. However, due to the thickness of the body, it has warped during firing, resulting in the cover not fitting totally flat with the box when in place, although it is undoubtedly the original cover. Inside the box and the cover are characters etched into the glaze; we have not had these ...

A Chinese Carved, Painted & Gilded Bamboo Figure. 17/18th. Century. Ht. on stand 7 ins. (17.8 cms) This is one of a very interesting series of similar figures we have listed. They are carved from the root of the bamboo, the only solid part that can be carved. The root would be inverted and the integral stand on the figures would be the top of the root from which root growths would radiate outwards. It is unusual to see Chinese bamboo carvings painted and gilded. They would have been quite a de-...