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A Master of Pass, ( Sic ) [ Past ] , Present and Future    Ihe First Exhibition Of Chang...
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A Master of Pass, ( Sic ) [ Past ] , Present and Future Ihe First Exhibition Of Chang Dai-Chien's Paintings in Canada

by Chang Dai-Chien / Ba Tong / Barry Till

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Taipei: National Museum of History, 2000. Book. Fine. Soft cover. First Printing of the First Edition. Fine, apparently unread copy. Text in English and Chinese..
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COLLECTION G...: Catalogue ... des oeuvres d'art et de haute curiosité du Tibet & la Chine et du...
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COLLECTION G...: Catalogue ... des oeuvres d'art et de haute curiosité du Tibet & la Chine et du Japon

by Deniker, M.J.; M.E. Deshayes

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Paris: Imprimerie De I' Art, 1904. First edition. Cloth bound in very good condition with leather spine label.. Two volumes bound together; Text in French; xxxi, 261 & xv, 227 pages with many black-and-white plates with facing tissues. Some have thought this may be the collection of Gurdjieff but seems it was Charles Gillot's. See NY Times March 7, 2008 article 'From Gems to Duds.'
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A History of Later Chinese Painting  2 Volumes
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A History of Later Chinese Painting 2 Volumes

by Siren, Oswald

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N. Y.: Hacker Art Books, 1978. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. First Thus. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. Fine but for ownership signature of a prominent Asian scholar, and some light wear to extremities. Covers the period 1350 to 1796. 352 pages of text ans 366 pages of plates. Blue decorated cloth. Packed weight about 4 kilos, so extra postage will be required..
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Chinese Painting: Leading Masters and Principles (7-Volume Set)
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Chinese Painting: Leading Masters and Principles (7-Volume Set)

by Siren, Osvald

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N. Y.: Hacker Art Books, 1973. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. First Thus. Essentially fine, with ownership signature of a prominent Asian scholar , in 3 of the volumes. Vol. 1 -3, First millenium. Vol. 4 - 6, Later centuries. Vol. 7 Annotated lists of paintings and reproductions of paintings by Chinese artists. Reissue of Lund Humphries edition of 1958. Seven large volumes weigh about 10 kilos, so extra postage will be required..
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Red Masterpieces: Lacquerware from the Reign of Emperor Qianlong - Palace Museum
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Red Masterpieces: Lacquerware from the Reign of Emperor Qianlong - Palace Museum

by Macau Museum of Art

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Macau: Macau Museum of Art, 2014. First Edition limited to 1000. Hardcover. Fine. Hardcover Fine 2 large format ((14"x10") hardcover in slipcase This splendid quality is only possible in Macau, where a special tax for cultural projects from casino profits allows for over the top catalogs and books that are issued in limited editions This one is limited to 1000 and was sold only in the Macau Art Museum and on their website. Like new, only leafed through once Ships from Hawaii This splendid catalog for a 2014 exhibition in Macao is catagorised into ten themes and invites the reader to immerse in the glamour of over 120 sets of lacquerware and related court paintings from the splendid era The culture of lacquerware, a traditional Chinese craft, is rooted in ancient times The black lacquered bow excuvated from the Neolithic site of Kuahuqiao in Xiaoxhan, Hangzhou Province reveals that the earliest found lacquerware in China appeared over 7,000 years ago In terms of of practical function, lacquerware… Read More
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FOUR SKETCHES BY SONG MASTERS - LETTERS AND POEMS BY FOUR SUNG MASTERS  SU SHI, HUANG...
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FOUR SKETCHES BY SONG MASTERS - LETTERS AND POEMS BY FOUR SUNG MASTERS SU SHI, HUANG T'ING-CHIEN, TS'AI HSIANG and MI FEI (IN CHINESE LANGUAGE)

by CHINESE ART - SU SHI - CALLIGRAPHY - SONG MASTERS - Edited by THE NATIONAL PALACE MUSEUM OF THE REPUBLIC OF CHINA

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Tokyo: Nigensha Publishing, 1980. Silk broidery. Fine. Folio. Leporello format book, bound in silk broidery and in the original decorative box. FOLIO. Attached brochure in English: Autor Chiang Chao-shen "LETTERS AND POEMS BY FOUR SUNG MASTERS SU SHIH... MI FEI" (+19pp English and Chinese) A FINE COPY. VERY CLEAN AND FRESH.
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Ancient Chinese Bronzes Of The Shang And Chou Dynasties
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Ancient Chinese Bronzes Of The Shang And Chou Dynasties

by Heusden, Willem Van

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Tokyo: Privately Published By Author, 1952. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). First Edition, Limited and Numbered. Fine But For Minor Soiling To Spine, Insignificant Traces Of Wear To Extremities, And Light Vertical Creasing To The Limitation Page. Internally Fine. This Is Copy Number 48 Of 1000. Large, Overweight Volume Will Require Extra Postage..
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Paper-cut : The Romance of the West Chamber  (Ke zhi :xi xiang ji)
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Paper-cut : The Romance of the West Chamber (Ke zhi :xi xiang ji)

by Wang Shifu

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[China?]: No Publisher 9 1/4" by 12 3/4" oblong quarto, string-tied, brocaded silk covered boards. Published [China?] , no date, WorldCat gives date 1930-1940. Parallel text in Chinese and English. 20 unnumbered pages : chiefly colour illustrations. "Consist of paper-cut art works depicting the scenes of the famous Chinese novel, the Romance of the West Chamber. It is a love story of the Tang dynasty, a masterpiece of Wang Shifu, a leading playwright of the Yuan dynasty." (WorldCat). RARE, OCLC locates only the National Library of Australia and Chinese University of Hong Kong with holdings. Intricate and lovely paper cuts in red, green, pink, orange and black. Near Fine, prior owner gift inscription inside front cover at paste down, small tear bottom edge front paste down at gutter. . First Edition. String Tied. Near Fine. Oblong 4to.
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Hidden Meanings in Chinese Art
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Hidden Meanings in Chinese Art

by Bartholomew, Terese Tse

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The Asian Art Museum, 2006 Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. English text; Hardcover (with dust jacket); 23.7 x 31.2 cm; 2.279 Kg; 352 pages with colour illustrations throughout.; Used with signs of wear on the dust jacket. The dust jacket is now protected with a clearcover. Minor signs of wear on the interior.; Can decorative objects increase one's wealth, happiness, or longevity? Traditionally, many Chinese have believed that they could, provided they include the appropriate auspicious symbols. In Hidden Meanings in Chinese Art, Terese Tse Bartholomew, culminating decades of research, has provided a thorough guide to such symbols. Auspicious symbols in Chinese art are often in the form of rebuses, visual puns. Because many words in Chinese share the same pronunciation, there is a wealth of opportunities for such punning, and over the centuries many rebuses have developed established meanings. Hidden Meanings in Chinese Art brings a systematic approach to the cataloguing of such hidden… Read More
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Chinese Ceramics in the Topkapi Saray Museum Istanbul (JAPANESE EDITION IN 2 VOLUMES)
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Chinese Ceramics in the Topkapi Saray Museum Istanbul (JAPANESE EDITION IN 2 VOLUMES)

by Hasebe, Rakuji (supervisor of the Japanese edition); Krahl, Regina in collaboration with Erbahar, Nurdan; Edited by Ayers, John with historical studies by Yucel, Unsal and Raby, Julian

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Kodansha Ltd., Japan , 1987 Book. As New. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Japanese text. Hardcover leather deluxe edition (2 Volumes in slipcase - inside a carton box); 26.5 x 37 cm without slipcase. Slipcase 28.5 x 39.5 x 10 cm; 9 Kg.; Volume I - ISBN 4062008130, 278 pages.; Volume 2 -ISBN 4062008149, 248 pages.: Colour and black and white illustrations throughout..; As new, with minor handling signs. The carton boxes show some handling signs.; LIMITED EDITION OF 1500 COPIES OF WHICH THIS IS NUMBER 688. SCARCE AND VERY HARD TO FIND.; Japanese edition of Chinese Ceramics in the Topkapi Saray Museum Istanbul: A Complete Catalogue, which was published in 3 VOLUMES in English by Philip Wilson Publishers, London for Sotheby's Publications in 1986. The Japanese edition was supervised by Rakuji Hasebe and condensed in 2 volumes. The Japanese edition includes a few colour illustrations that were not included in the English edition. The texts included in the Japanese edition were carefully selected and adapted… Read More
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The Baur Collection, Geneva: Chinese Ceramics (VOLUME I, II, III and IV)
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The Baur Collection, Geneva: Chinese Ceramics (VOLUME I, II, III and IV)

by Ayers, John

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Collections Baur-Genève, Switzerland Book. Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. English and French text; 4 VOLUMES Hardcover (cloth with dust jacket) without the slipcases; 24 x 29 cm; 7.9 Kg; Each volume includes an introduction followed by an extensive catalogue with black and white and colour illustrations, each with caption.; Used books with signs of wear on the dust jackets and interior. Good condition overall. The dust jackets of volume I and III have tears (vol I on rear of the front cover and vol III on the top of the front cover and on the top of the back cover). All dust jackets are now protected with a clearcover. OUT OF PRINT. LIMITED EDITION OF 1100 COPIES, 50 DELUXE COPIES IN LEATHER NUMBERED FROM I to L; 1000 STANDARD COPIES IN CLOTH NUMBERED FROM 1 to 1000 AND 50 COPIES RESERVED TO EMPLOYEES, OF WHICH THESE ARE: VOLUME I: 889, VOLUME II: 934, VOLUME III: 160 AND VOLUME IV: 819; VOLUME I: Korean and Thai Wares; 1968; 1.9 Kg; 232 pages.; VOLUME II: Ming Porcelain and Other Wares; 1.8 Kg;… Read More
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Blanc de Chine: The Porcelain of Têhua in Fukien
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Blanc de Chine: The Porcelain of Têhua in Fukien

by Donnelly, P.J.

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Faber and Faber Limited, London, 1969 Book. Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. English text; Hardcover (with dust jacket); 407 pages plus appendix with 160 black and white plates; 17 x 25.7 cm; 1.229 Kg; SBN 571 08078 2; Used book with signs of wear on the dust jacket. Minor signs of wear on the interior, which looks as new. The dust jacket is now protected with a clearcover.; REFERENCE BOOK ON BLANC DE CHINE; Blanc de chine, the white porcelain of Têhua in fukien, has waited long for its chronicler. This most beautiful of porcelains, satisfying entirely by form and glaze, so elusive to date, enjoys wide appeal. But collectors and others interested have up to now had to rest content with a page or so of general praise and description in the standard works on Chinese ceramics, for there has been no complete book on this subject. This deficiency is now made good. The author, with the advantage of an unrivalled collection of the ware itself, has devoted years of research into sources, Chinese and… Read More
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The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 204, Number 6 (December 1959) - Special Issue : Red China, The First...

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 204, Number 6 (December 1959) - Special Issue : Red China, The First Ten Years

by Weeks, Edward A. (ed.), Mao Tse-tung (Mao Zedong), Michael Lindsay, Tao Chu, Ted Hughes, Isak Dinesen, Peter Ustinov, Wolf Mankowitz, et al

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Boston: The Atlantic Monthly Company, 1959. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG. 4to, 176pp, printed wrappers. A Special Issue devoted to China under Mao Zedong, includes poems by Mao and a profile of him, plus other content on Chinese culture and politics. Also a poem by Ted Hughes, a story by Isak Dinesen, and work from other important contributors. Unmarked copy, a bit of general wear and toning, minor closed tearing to covers.
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Chinese Porcelain The S.C. Ko Tianminlou Collection (Part I and II)
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Chinese Porcelain The S.C. Ko Tianminlou Collection (Part I and II)

by Ayers, John; Thompson, Julian; Tam, Laurence C. S.; Chao, Ko Shih

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Urban Council, Hong Kong, 1987 Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. English and Chinese text.; Hardcover (silk cloth without dust jacket - as issued. Two volumes in slipcase.); 27.5 x 37 cm; 5.5 Kg; Volume I with 364 pages and Volume II with 240 pages. Includes 400 colour illustrations including 59 panoramic views.; Used books. The spines are slightly faded as usual with minor signs of wear. The exterior of the hardcover show minor signs of wear. The exterior of the slipcase show signs of wear, and is worn at the top right corner. The interior of both volumes looks as new. Includes the pictorial paper wrapped around the slipcase, which has tears on the bottom and top.; Catalogue from the exhibition at the Hong Kong Museum of Art of 163 objects, the majority are products of the imperial kilns of Jingdezhen.; "The Hong Kong Museum of Art is proud to present an exhibition of pieces selected from the Tianminlou Collection of Chinese porcelain, a collection that has been assembled over the last… Read More
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Noble Blue: The Enduring Appeal of Blue Ground Chinese Porcelain
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Noble Blue: The Enduring Appeal of Blue Ground Chinese Porcelain

by Jorge Welsh (ed.)

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Jorge Welsh Research and Publishing, 2023 Book. New. Hardcover. 1st Edition. English text.; Hardcover.; 23.5 x 29.7 cm.; 2.2 Kg.; 296 pages with 269 colour and 6 black & white illustrations.; LIMITED EDITION OF 400 COPIES.; Exibition catalogue dedicated to the theme of Chinese blue ground porcelain produced in the city of Jingdezhen, from a period ranging from the 17th to the 19th century. This is the first publication ever dedicated to this particular theme, illustrating and discussing 94 individual examples in its 61 entries and including wide-ranging introductory articles on the subject by Ronald W. Fuchs II, editor of Ceramics in America and independent scholar, and Bruno Alexandre Morais, researcher at Jorge Welsh Research and Publishing..
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