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Book: The Mustard Seed Garden Manual of Painting
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Pre 1950 item# 952893 (stock# ALib 3)
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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)
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Book: Chinese painted enamels
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Pre 1980 item# 950257 (stock# ALib 1)
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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.
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Book: Osvald Siren, Chinese Painting, 1956
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Pre 1960 item# 934002 (stock# 10582)
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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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Netsuke Kenkyukai Study Journal, Vol. 14, Number 1
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Pre 2000 item# 743518 (stock# B 095)
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Netsuke Kenkyukai Study Journal, Vol. 14, Number 1, Spring 1994.
Contents:
Bushell Raymond, Questions & Answers, pp. 5-13 / 44-45, Kurstin, Joseph, Netsuke: Story Carvings of Old Japan, An Exhibit of Netsuke and Inro at EPCOT Center, pp. 14-24, Kres, Else, Zeshin Cake Box in the Collection of Harriet and
Melvin Jahss, new York, pp. 25-31, Lewis, Edmund J. The Bekkoden Sennin Inro, pp. 32-26, Wilhelm, Gabor, On the Continent, Sales room news, from Paris, Cologne, and Orleans, France, pp. 37-41, Chappell, Sharen; Szeszler, Denis, Legends: Kyoyu and Sofu, pp. 42-43, Comee, Stephen, Tokyo Tidings, pp. 48-50, Spring 1994, 56 pp., 25.5 x 17.5 cm. Paper. English text. Numerous colour plates, b/w illustrations.
Perfect condition.
On pp. 14 to 25 Elena and Joe Kurstin proudly introduce an Exhibition of their Netsuke at Epcot Center, a Walt Disney World Resort in Orlando, Florida, from May 11, 1993 to May 10, 1997. This is followed on pp. 25-31 by Else Kress’ description of a unique Cake Box by Zeshin, covered with leaf-shaped examples of a wide variety of sprinkled gold powders. Ed Lewis reflects on pp. 32-36 on a suitable naming of a hitherto obscure Japanese style of inro decoration.
This item is located in Europe.
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Netsuke Kenkyukai Study Journal, Vol. 13, Number 2
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Pre 2000 item# 743509 (stock# B 094)
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Netsuke Kenkyukai Study Journal, Vol. 13, Number 2, Summer 1993.
Contents:
Bushell Raymond, Questions & Answers, pp. 5-8, Ulak, James T., Namban, pp. 9-12, Lewis, Edmund J., When the Twain Met: The Namban Influence Upon Japanese Lacquer Art, pp. 13-24, Moss, Paul, Let’s go Dutch, Namban Netsuke, pp. 25-37, Kress, Else, Tobacco Smoking, Namban-jin and Their Pets in Old Japan, pp. 38-48, Dean, Michael, Four Groups of Japanese Namban Lacquer, pp. 49-61, Szeszler, Denis, Legends: Ashinaga and Tenaga, pp. 66-67, Comee, Stephen, Tokyo Tidings, pp. 70-71, Book reviews: Miss Maggie’s Whole New World, Davey, Neil K.; Netsuke on ‘Sunday Morning’, Cunningham Isabel, p. 74. Summer 1993,78 pp., 25.5 x 17.5 cm. Paper. English text. Numerous colour plates, b/w illustrations. Perfect condition.
James Ulak, at that time the Associate Curator of Japanese Art, The Art Institute of Chicago, gives us an in-depth information on Namban, as an ‘…romantically charged and regrettably imprecise term …’ while Ed Lewis cites Rudyard Kipling’s poem on the likelihood of East and West to meet (e.g. in Japanese art).
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