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Cohen & Cohen Publishing, 2008. 1. Hardcover. Very Good. Very Good+ in a Very Good+ dust jacket; Hardcover; Light wear to the covers; Unblemished textblock edges; The endpapers and all text pages are bright and unmarked; The binding is tight with a straight spine; This book will be shipped in a sturdy cardboard box with foam padding; Large Format (11.75" - 12.75" tall); Dark gray dust jacket with photo of two ceramic figures, and title in gold lettering; 2008, Cohen & Cohen Publishing; 303 pages; "Mandarin and Menagerie (v. I)," by Michael & William Motley Cohen.
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Mandarin and Menagerie, Chinese and Japanese Export Ceramic Figures, Volume I: The James E. Sowell Collection Hardcover - 2008
by Cohen, Michael; and Motley, William; Fuchs II, Ronald W. (foreword)
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- Title Mandarin and Menagerie, Chinese and Japanese Export Ceramic Figures, Volume I: The James E. Sowell Collection
- Author Cohen, Michael; and Motley, William; Fuchs II, Ronald W. (foreword)
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition 1st Edition
- Pages 304
- Publisher Cohen & Cohen, Reigate, Surrey, United Kingdom, Hong Kong
- Date 2008
- ISBN 9780953718597
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Mandarin and Menagerie, Chinese and Japanese Export Ceramic Figures, Volume I: The James E. Sowell Collection
by Cohen, Michael; and Motley, William; Fuchs II, Ronald W. (foreword)
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Cohen & Cohen, Reigate, Surrey, United Kingdom, 2008 Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. English text; Hardcover (cloth with dust jacket); 25.5 x 32 cm; 2,409 kg; 303 pages with colour illustrations.; Used with minor signs of wear. The dust jacket is now protected with a clearcover.; This book covers the largest and most important collection of Chinese and Export figures currently existing in the world. Collected by James E. Sowell of Dallas, Texas, there are over 170 items including over 50 bird figures, a dozen dogs, and a unique pair of leopards possibly made for the Imperial Summer Palace. It includes a history of the European trade with Canton and contains an informative guide to the dating of many of these pieces, with many pictures of the bases of the figures. The book catalogues the James E. Sowell collection in detail, arraging the animals according to approximate zoological taxanomic groups and commenting on some of the scientific knowledge available at the time. Traditional theory says…
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