The Philadelphia 1949 Exhibition of Ming Blue-and-White with the Oriental Ceramic Society 1954 Exhibition

H. F. Collins & Co. Ltd, London, 1985 Book. Very Good. Soft cover. English text.; Hardcover (with dust jacket); 21.5 x 27 cm; 0.6 Kg; 162 pages with black and white illustrations throughout.; Used with minor signs of wear on the exterior.; VERY HARD TO FIND.; Comprises the reproducing of two exhibition catalogues: Philadelphia Museum Bulletin, Vol XVLIV, No 223, Autumn 1949 regarding the Exhibition of Blue-Decorated Porcelain of the Ming Dynasty at the Philadelphia Museum of Art from October 19 through December 4 1949 also shown at The Art Institute of Chicago plus catalogue from an exhibition of Chinese Blue and White Porcelain, 14th to 19th centuries, held by the Oriental Ceramic Society from December 16th, 1953 to January 23rd 1954, The Arts Council Gallery in London.; "In the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644) Chinese potters perfected the art of decorating porcelain with underglaze painting in cobalt blue. The products of the application of this happy accomplishment have come to be called "Ming blue-and-white". After due consideration, of the style and quality of painting, the calligraphy of marks, the cutting of the foot, the shape as well as the paste and glaze of the vessels and comparison with shards, some of which are exhibited, the pieces have been catalogued and arranged in what is now thought to be the proper chronological order." excerpt from the introduction by Jean Gordon Lee, 1949.; "This exhibition covers the development of Chinese blue and white from the earliest wares, made at the beginning of the fourteenth century, up to the finest achievements of the Ming and Ch'ing dynasties and then to the decline which reached its lowest points at the end of the nineteenth century. During this period of six hundred years by far the greatest centre of manufacture of porcelain in China was the neighbourhood of Ching-tê Chên, in the province of Kiangsi, where all the Imperial and much of the non-Imperial porcelain was made. But a good deal of blue and white was made in other provinces, notably Fukien and Annam, and wares from both these provinces are represented in the exhibition. Blue and white from the other oriental countries, Korea and Japan, has not been included." excerpt from the introduction by Harry M. Garner, 1953..