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Reunion des musees nationaux, Paris, France, 2000 Book. Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. French and English text; Hardcover (with dust jacket).; 24 x 28 cm; 1,2 Kg; 165 with colour illustrations.; Used book with signs of wear on the dust jacket, namely chips and tears. The dust jacket is now protected with a clearcover. Interior in very good condition.; Containing fifty four objects covering the 17th through the 19th centuries and illustrating the princely arts of Mughal India, of the Deccani sultanates and of the Rajput kingdoms, as well as twenty jewels from Northern India, the Jean and Krishnâ Riboud donation represents an incredible endowment for the Guimet museum's Indian collections. There are translucent jade and rock crystal cups enriched with rubies and emeralds, chalcedony and jade dagger handles sprinkled with precious stones, flasks and powder horns made from exquisitely carved ivory, spice boxes and huqqa bases with enamelled decorations, artefacts made from shimmering mother of… Read More

N.V. Uitgeversmaatschappij De Tijdstroom Lochem, 1970 Book. Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. English text.; Hardcover (with dust jacket).; 16.5 x 24.5 cm.; 0.831 Kg.; 301 pages with black and white and one colour illustrations.; Used with signs of wear, namely on the dust jacket that has a tear on the back cover. Signs of wear on the interior. Overall in good condition. The dust jacket is now protected with a clearcover.; The object of this book is to broaden the range of aesthetic enjoyment in the field of Chinese porcelain. First of all the writer has dealt once and for all with the myth that after Ch'ien-lung almost no porcelain worthy of our attention was produced any more. Secondly, it was shown that the revival in the porcelain industry at the end of the Ch'ing dynasty obtained a heavy stimulus from Yuan Shik-k'ai, the first President of the Republic of China. This culminated in the production of very fine porcelain bearing the reign mark HUNG-HSIEN of his usurped emperorship in 1916.… Read More

Uitgeversmaatschappij De Tijdstroom b.v., Lochem, The Netherlands, 1977 Book. Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. English text; Hardcover (with dust jacket); 17 x 25 cm; 0.542 Kg; 198 pages with black-and-white and colour illustrations.; The dust jacket has minor chips, tears and scuffs. The dust jacket is now protected with a clearcover. The interior is in very good condition.; Between the reign of Chia-Ch'ing and the Japanese invasion in 1937 much porcelain was made in China, albeit of very diverse quality. It is, in fact, a strange phenomenon that, up to now, most experts have neglected this span of approximately 150 years during which so many interesting pieces were made. In this book the author makes an attempt, for the first time, to bring order into the porcelains of the various periods concerned and to show their interrelationships as well as their relationships to earlier periods. Some of the porcelain is undoubtedly rather poor, but many pieces, especially those produced during the second and… Read More