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Book: Rose Kerr, Chinese Ceramics, Qing Dynasty

Catalogue: Traditional Collectibles: Books: References: Antiques: Pre 2000   item# 956154 (stock# ALib7)

Book: Rose Kerr, Chinese Ceramics, Qing Dynasty
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$ 40 

Kerr, Rose, Chinese ceramics. Porcelain of the Qing Dynasty 1644-1911, Victoria and Albert Museum: London 1986. Reprint from 1998. Hardcover with d/j. 142 pp. with many illustrations in color and b/w, including photos of seals, marks and bottoms.


Book: Chinesisches Cloisonne. Die Sammlung Pierre Uldry

Catalogue: Traditional Collectibles: Books: References: Antiques: Pre 1990   item# 956148 (stock# ALib 6)

Book: Chinesisches Cloisonne. Die Sammlung Pierre Uldry
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Brinker, Helmut and Albert Lutz, Chinesisches Cloisonne. Die Sammlung Pierre Uldry, Museum Rietberg: Zuerich 1985. 2nd edition from 1988. Hardcover with dj. German text. 144pp. introduction into the history and developments of cloisonne in China, followed by extensive photographic descriptions in b/w and color of 381 pieces from the Uldry collection, an explanation of motives and a bibliography. One of the standard reference works on Chinese cloisonne in almost new condition with some pencil remarks and the stamp of the first owner.


Book: G.F. Kunz, Ivory and the Elephant

Catalogue: Traditional Collectibles: Books: References: Antiques: Pre 1920   item# 956008 (stock# ALib 5)

Book: G.F. Kunz, Ivory and the Elephant
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Kunz, George Frederick, Ivory and the Elephant, in Art, in Archaeology, and in Science, Doubleday, Page and Company: Garden City/New York 1916. xxvi and 527 pp. with many illustrations is b/w. Standard work on everything ivory.
Copy signed and dedicated by the author in 1916.
Pages a bit yellowed, some damage to binding.



Book: The Mustard Seed Garden Manual of Painting

Catalogue: Traditional Collectibles: Books: References: Antiques: Pre 1950   item# 952893 (stock# ALib 3)

Book: The Mustard Seed Garden Manual of Painting
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$ 20 

a) Sze, Mai-mai, The Mustard Seed Garden Manual of Painting. translated from the Chinese and edited by Mai-mai Sze, Princeton University Press: Princeton 1978 (second printing). (Good clean copy)
b) Priest, Alan, Chinese Flower and Fruit Prints From the Mustard Seed Garden and Ten Bamboo Studios-Metropolitan Museum of Art. American Studio Books/Holme Press, Inc.: New York/London 1946. Hardcover binding with twelve loose sheets with twelve tipped in prints, reproductions of prints from the Mustard Seed Garden and Ten Bamboo Studios, plus an introduction by Alan Priest, former curator of the Far Eastern Art Department at the Metropolitan Museum in New York. (Condition of binding mediocre, prints mostly in very good condition)
c) Sze, Mai-mai, The Way of Chinese Painting, its ideas and techniques, random House : New York 1959. Paperback. (yellowed, but good condition)



Book: Chinesisches Glas, Gunhild Gabbert

Catalogue: Traditional Collectibles: Books: References: Antiques: Pre 1990   item# 950264 (stock# ALib 2)

Book: Chinesisches Glas, Gunhild Gabbert
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$ 20 

Gabbert, Gunhild, Chinesisches Glas, Frankfurt am Main: Museum fuer Kunsthandwerk, 2nd edn. 1980. Soft cover. 47 pp, 65 objects described and photographed in b/w, 2 pp. illustrated marks. Text in German only. Objects from the collection of the museum.
Good condition.



Book: Chinese painted enamels

Catalogue: Traditional Collectibles: Books: References: Antiques: Pre 1980   item# 950257 (stock# ALib 1)

Book: Chinese painted enamels
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$ 50 

Two books by the same title:
a) Hyde, J. A. Lloyd, Chinese Painted Enamels. From Private and Museum Collections. New York: China House Gallery/ The China Art Institute in America, 1969. Soft cover. 8vo., 48 pp., 71 objects described and photographed in b/w.
b) Gillingham, Michael, Chinese Painted Enamels. An Exhibition held in the Department of Eastern Art, June, July 1978, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, 1978. Soft cover. 96 pp., 131 objects described and photographed in b/w.
a) Slightly yellowed at edges, very good condition. b) Slightly faded at spine and edges, minimal traces of usage, good condition.



Book: The Heibonsha Survey of Japanese Art

Catalogue: Traditional Collectibles: Books: Pre 1980   item# 949969 (stock# 10596)

Book: The Heibonsha Survey of Japanese Art
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$ 1,000 

The Heibonsha Survey of Japanese Art
Consulting editors: Katsuichiro Kamei, Seiichiro Takahashi, Ichimatsu Tanaka, New York/Tokyo: Weatherhill/Heibonsha 1972-1976.

The complete series:
Vol 1: Major Themes in Japanese Art – Itsuji Yoshikawa ; Vol 2: The Beginnings of Japanese Art – Namio Egami ; Vol 3: Shinto: Ise and Izumo Shrines – Yasutada Watanabe ; Vol 4: Asuka buddhist Art: Horyu-ji – Seiichi Mizuno ; Vol 5: Nara Buddhist Art: Todai-ji – Tsuyoshi Kobayashi ; Vol 6: The Silk Road and the Shoso-in – Ryoichi Hayashi ; Vol 7: Temples of Nara and their Art – Minoru Ooka ; Vol 8: Art in Japanese esoteric Buddhism – Takaaki Sawa ; Vol 9: Heian Temples: Ryodo-in and Chuson-ji – Toshio Fukuyama ; Vol 10: Painting in the Yamato Style – Saburo Ienaga ; Vol 11: Sculpture of the Kamakura Period – Hisashi Mori ; Vol 12: Japanese Ink Painting: Shubun to Sesshu – Ichimatsu Tanaka ; Vol 13: Feudal Architecture of Japan – Kiyoshi Hirai ; Vol 14: Momoyama Decorative Painting – Tsuguyoshi Doi ; Vol 15: Japanese Art and the Tea Ceremony – T. Hayashi, M. Nakamura, S. Hayashiya ; Vol 16: Japanese Costume and Textile Arts – Seiroku Noma ; Vol 17: Momoyama Genre Painting – Yuzo Yamane ; Vol 18: Edo Painting: Sotatsu and Korin – Hiroshi Mizuo ; Vol 19: The Namban Art of Japan – Yoshitomo Okamoto ; Vol 20: Edo Architecture: Katsura and Nikko – Naomi Okawa ; Vol 21: Traditional Domestic Architecture of Japan – Teiji Itoh ; Vol 22: Traditional Woodblock Prints of Japan – Seiichiro Takahashi ; Vol 23: Japanese Painting in the Literati Style – Yoshiho Yonezawa and Chu Yoshizawa ; Vol 24: Modern Currents in Japanese Art – Michiaki Kawakita ; Vol 25: Japanese Art in World Perspective – Toru Terada ; Vol 26: Folk Arts and Crafts of Japan – Kageo Muraoka and Kichiemon Okamura ; Vol 27: The Art of Japanese Calligraphy – Yujiro Nakata ; Vol 28: The Garden Art of Japan – Masao Hayakawa ; Vol 29: The Art of Japanese Ceramics – Tsugio Mikami ; Vol 30: Japanese Art: A Cultural Appreciation ; Vol 31: General Index.

No dust jackets, some traces of usage, mostly good to very good condition.


Book: Alan Priest, Chinese sculpture, 1944

Catalogue: Traditional Collectibles: Books: Pre 1950   item# 935297 (stock# 10585)

Book: Alan Priest, Chinese sculpture, 1944
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$ 80 

Alan Priest, Chinese sculpture in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York: Metropolitan Museum, 1944. First edition. 81 pp., 132 full-page b/w photographic plates largely by Tet Borsig. Bound in pictorial paper on boards and red cloth on spine.
Pages slightly yellowed, spine damaged, covers rubbed and dented in places.



Book: Arthur Waley, Chinese painting, 1923

Catalogue: Traditional Collectibles: Books: References: Antiques: Pre 1930   item# 934005 (stock# 10581)

Book: Arthur Waley, Chinese painting, 1923
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$ 110 

An Introduction to the Study of Chinese painting; by Arthur Waley, assistant in the British Museum, London: Ernest Benn, 1923 (xii+262 pp., 6 color plates and 44 b/w ills., percaline sheets).
Covers and spine slightly dented and rubbed, pages yellowed, otherwise good condition.



Book: Osvald Siren, Chinese Painting, 1956

Catalogue: Traditional Collectibles: Books: References: Antiques: Pre 1960   item# 934002 (stock# 10582)

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$ 500 

Osvald Siren: Chinese Painting: Leading Masters and Principles. Part I; The First Millennium (3 vols.), London: Lund Humphries/New York: Ronald Press, 1956.
Vol.I: Early Chinese Paintings (xi+235pp., colored frontispiece and b/w ills.)
Vol.II: The Sung Period (vi+189pp. and annotated lists 95pp., colored frontispiece and b/w ills.)
Vol.III: Plates (xviii pp., 372 b/w plates).
Bound with red cloth, gilt title to front board and spine. With slip cases. 28.5x23cm.
Books very good codition. Splipcases with slight traces of usage.


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