Collection of books and a report on Chinese Art
to include two hardback folio-sized issues with Chinese and English text, Chinese Antiquities from The Brian S. McEleney collection, well illustrated with 174 plates in monochrome and colour, organised by The Hong Kong Museum of Art 1987,
and An Anthology of Chinese Ceramics, with similar text and illustrations, jointly presented by the Min Chin Society, and the Urban Council, Hong Kong, Hong Kong Museum of Art 21.10.80 - 21.12.80,
a paperbound book compiled by P. Hughes Stanton and Rose Kerr, Kiln Sites of Ancient China, covering recent finds of pottery and Porcelain, an exhibition lent by the Peoples Republic of China, organised in association with The Oriental Ceramic Society, printed and bound in Great Britain by Baldin + Mansell London and Wisbech with monochrome and coloured illustrations;
and a book on Chinese ceramics from datable tombs, with mainly monochrome illustrations., by J.M Addis, first published in 1978 for Sotheby Parke Bernet publications, by Philip Wilson publishers, illustrated,
together with a titled and coloured illustrated paper-covered folio issued book of 291 pages on Oriental Art, well illustrated in colour, by Maurizio Scapari, 'Splenders of Ancient China', published by Thames and Hudson,
Chinese cardboard cased hard backed folio two-volume issue book in Chinese and English script and in excellent condition, on Chinese porcelain from the S.C.KO Tianminlou collection by John Ayres, published by Hong Kong Museum of Art, presented by the Urban Council, Hong Kong, Part 1 illustrated in colour with (blue and white ware 1-65) - (polychrome are 66-119) - (monochrome ware 120-1610, Part 2, covering each illustration with descriptions of their decoration and periods, a paper-backed issue, Freer Gallery of Art, Chinese Art of the Warring States Period Change and Continuity, 480-222 B.C., by Thomas Lawson Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution Washington. D. C. 1982,
A Bluett & Sons Gallery Exhibition paper-backed illustrated catalogue of Ancient Chinese Bronzes of The Late Warring States - early Western Han Periods:
and a notebook-size issue, An Examination of Chinese Bronzes by John C. Ferguson from The Smithsonian Report for 1914, pages 587-592 and 14 plates,
a folio issue hardback illustrated catalogue of The Malcolm Macdonald Collection of Chinese Ceramics in the Gulbenkian Museum of Oriental Art and Archaeology, School of Oriental Studies, University of Durham, by Ireneus Laszlo Legeza, deputy curator with a foreword by the Rt. Hon. Malcolm Macdonald, printed by London University Press, New York, Toronto, 1972,
a hardback issue covering various aspects of Chinese Art with one hundred plates in colour introduced by an outline sketch of Chinese by R.L. Hobson, Keeper of the Department of Ceramics and Ethnography at the British Museum, published by Earnest Benn Ltd London MCMXXVII (12)
Sold for £300
Estimated at £80 - £100
Collection of books and a report on Chinese Art
to include two hardback folio-sized issues with Chinese and English text, Chinese Antiquities from The Brian S. McEleney collection, well illustrated with 174 plates in monochrome and colour, organised by The Hong Kong Museum of Art 1987,
and An Anthology of Chinese Ceramics, with similar text and illustrations, jointly presented by the Min Chin Society, and the Urban Council, Hong Kong, Hong Kong Museum of Art 21.10.80 - 21.12.80,
a paperbound book compiled by P. Hughes Stanton and Rose Kerr, Kiln Sites of Ancient China, covering recent finds of pottery and Porcelain, an exhibition lent by the Peoples Republic of China, organised in association with The Oriental Ceramic Society, printed and bound in Great Britain by Baldin + Mansell London and Wisbech with monochrome and coloured illustrations;
and a book on Chinese ceramics from datable tombs, with mainly monochrome illustrations., by J.M Addis, first published in 1978 for Sotheby Parke Bernet publications, by Philip Wilson publishers, illustrated,
together with a titled and coloured illustrated paper-covered folio issued book of 291 pages on Oriental Art, well illustrated in colour, by Maurizio Scapari, 'Splenders of Ancient China', published by Thames and Hudson,
Chinese cardboard cased hard backed folio two-volume issue book in Chinese and English script and in excellent condition, on Chinese porcelain from the S.C.KO Tianminlou collection by John Ayres, published by Hong Kong Museum of Art, presented by the Urban Council, Hong Kong, Part 1 illustrated in colour with (blue and white ware 1-65) - (polychrome are 66-119) - (monochrome ware 120-1610, Part 2, covering each illustration with descriptions of their decoration and periods, a paper-backed issue, Freer Gallery of Art, Chinese Art of the Warring States Period Change and Continuity, 480-222 B.C., by Thomas Lawson Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution Washington. D. C. 1982,
A Bluett & Sons Gallery Exhibition paper-backed illustrated catalogue of Ancient Chinese Bronzes of The Late Warring States - early Western Han Periods:
and a notebook-size issue, An Examination of Chinese Bronzes by John C. Ferguson from The Smithsonian Report for 1914, pages 587-592 and 14 plates,
a folio issue hardback illustrated catalogue of The Malcolm Macdonald Collection of Chinese Ceramics in the Gulbenkian Museum of Oriental Art and Archaeology, School of Oriental Studies, University of Durham, by Ireneus Laszlo Legeza, deputy curator with a foreword by the Rt. Hon. Malcolm Macdonald, printed by London University Press, New York, Toronto, 1972,
a hardback issue covering various aspects of Chinese Art with one hundred plates in colour introduced by an outline sketch of Chinese by R.L. Hobson, Keeper of the Department of Ceramics and Ethnography at the British Museum, published by Earnest Benn Ltd London MCMXXVII (12)
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Auction: Asian & Islamic Art, 8th Nov, 2023
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