David Howard, John Ayers. Published by Sotheby Parke Bernet, Contact seller. Used - Hardcover Condition: Good. Within U. Quantity: 1 available. Condition: Good. No jacket. Rockefeller Foreword. First Edition. Used - Hardcover Condition: Near fine condition. Condition: Near fine condition. First edition. Original marine blue cloth with with vignette in circular frame on cover, gilt lettering on spines, in original color-illustrated dustjackets, with blue lettering on spine, housed in gray cloth slipcase with gilt vignettes printed to blue background on covers.
Top edges gilt. Gray endpapers. Illustrated double title pages printed in blue and black. Contains extensive bibliography and index at rear of volume two. The often unusual forms of the porcelains, their decorative styles and traditions, the endlessly varying subjects that they portray and above all the continuous interchange in such themes between the Chinese manufacturers and decorators and their distant clients in the West, by means of the historic trading companies all these are studied and interpreted more fully, and tabulated more practically for reference than ever before.
The work also examines other export goods painted enamels, carvings in ivory or soapstone, and reverse paintings on glass, to name only a few which are represented by notable pieces. Slipcase with light brown streak at bottom front cover. Used - Hardcover Condition: Very Good. From Portugal to U. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Included.
English text; Hardcover two hardcover volumes in buckram bound with dust jackets in splicase. Gilted upper side of the text block on both volumes ; Interior in very good condition. The slipcase has signs of wear, namely a few wear marks throughout. Very good condition overall. Until very recently however this subject had been very little studied, overshadowed as it was by the ever-widening perspectives of China's ancient past. It was nevertheless through this trade, and especially its ceramic wares, that the unique artistic creativity of the Chinese first became widely known and appreciated.
This book aims to provide the most detailed and penetrating analysis yet made of the porcelains produced for Western markets during these centuries examining in its seven hundred pages and as many illustrations one hundred of them in colour all their many-sided attractions. The often unusual forms of the porcelain, their decorative styles and traditions, the endlessly varying subjects that they portray - and above all the continuous interchange in such themes between the Chinese manufacturers and decorators and their distant clients in the West, by means of the historic trading companies - all these are studied and interpreted more fully, and tabulated more practically for reference than ever before.
