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	Cheng Xun Tang Collection of Painting and Calligraphy on Fans - 9627101346 Cheng Xun Tang Collection of Painting and Calligraphy on Fans presents Chinese paintings and calligraphy on fans from the Chen Xung Tang Collection of Hong Kong. Executed by 160 different artists, these fans include 130 paintings and 50 calligraphic works. The period involved spans from the 15th to the 19th centuries. There are not only works by famous masters of various schools, those by lesser artists, which have attained a certain degree of artistry, are also featured. Language: Man... $64.00     View Details Add To Cart
	Chinese Arts Auction Records 2002 (Paintings & Calligraphy) - 9573051443 This volume compiles year 2001 auction results from auction houses around the world, including Christie's (worldwide), Sotheby's (worldwide), Butterfield & Butterfield, among others. Covers both traditional and contemporary and oil paintings; includes index of artist's name searchable by stroke count. $50.96     View Details Add To Cart
	Chinese Ceramics from the Gulexuan Collection - 3926512989 The Gulexuan Collection, formed in Germany over the past thirty years, offers an informative overview of the development of Chinese ceramics over two thousand years, with examples ranging from the Han (206 BC-AD 220) to the Qing dynasty (1644-1911), and includes also a small group of archaic bronzes and carved jades. The present publication provides a lucid survey of the evolution of Chinese ceramics by Regina Krahl, and explorative essay on the relationship between scroll and porcelain paint... $77.50     View Details Add To Cart
	Chinese Export Silver: The Chan Collection - 9610527322 Chinese Export Silver was intended to reproduce functional objects in the European style. However, in copying the European models, the Chinese artisans managed to add to those objects Chinese motifs such as the dragon and phoenix and scenes of life at the Chinese court. The result is that there was a charming fusion between the East and West. David Chan has studiously been collecting Chinese Export Silver since the 80s, the greater part of which is illustrated here for the first time. $49.50     View Details Add To Cart
	Chinese Gold & Silver in American Collections from the Tang Dynasty - PUB87 Exhibition of the Tang dynasty gold and silver at the Dayton Art Institute. $19.50     View Details Add To Cart
	Chinese Hardwood Furniture in Hawaiian Collections - 1878529617 Chinese Hardwood Furniture in Hawaiian Collections is one of the first Chinese furniture exhibitions in the US which includes a significant number of Chinese hardwood furniture from the collection of the Honolulu Academy of Arts and many private collections in Hawaii. These early collections were amassed under scholarly guidance, and thus contains many beautiful and elegant examples. With essays and catalog entries by Robert H. Ellsworth, a foremost Chinese furniture authority in the W... $13.50     View Details Add To Cart
	Chinese Ivories from the Kwan Collection - 9627101168 Catalog of an important exhibition of Chinese ivory based on the collection of Dr. Simon Kwan, featuring two hundred items dating from the Shang dynasty to the early twentieth century. It presents a comprehensive survey of historical development as well as the artistic achievement of Chinese ivory. $61.63     View Details Add To Cart
	Chinese Jades from the Collection of Alan & Simone Hartman - 9627287296 Alan and Simone Hartman have collected Chinese jades for more than 20 years with a passion and educated taste almost unrivaled in the West and this catalog illustrates with Commentaries and an Introduction more than 200 of their finest pieces, which together form a series spanning almost five thousand years. Whilst boasting superb examples from most periods, the collection is particularly strong on the carving of the Ming and Qing dynasties (1368-1911). The catalog is completed with a special... $51.00     View Details Add To Cart
	Chinese Jades from the Collection of the Seattle Art Museum - 0932216285 It has often been observed that Chinese civilization is one of the longest continuous civilizations in the world. One measure of its longevity is the constant use of jade in Chinese culture, from the Neolithic period to the twentieth century. The two most important jade ritual implements, the bi (an angular disk with a center perforation) and the cong (a cylindrical tube with a squared exterior), first made their appearance in the middle of the third millennium B.C. and were sti... $10.95     View Details Add To Cart
	Chinese Jades: The Youngman Collection From Neolithic t - 9781588860989 "Chinese Jades" features splendid examples of jade from the Neolithic period to the Qing from the Robert P. Youngman collection. Profusely illustrated throughout, the Youngman collection is presented with detailed written descriptions that further characterize each piece's unique splendor - each standing out on its own with style and elegance. Presented in three parts, Part One features early jades (7000 BCE to 220 CE); Part Two focuses on jade carvings of flora, fauna and the human figure; P... $92.50     View Details Add To Cart
	Chinese Yixing Teawares from the Collection of the Mai Foundation - 9579748292 The MAI Foundation (the Ch'eng Yang Foundation) Collection of Chinese Yixing teapots is among the best in the world, containing rare examples from the late Ming through the early 20th century. In addition to the unadorned and elegantly-shaped pots, the collection also includes superb examples of inscribed and painted pots; some were done by known artists and many commissioned for the imperial court and its officials. Each item illustrated is fully described in both Chinese and English, with p... $124.95     View Details Add To Cart
	Classical and Vernacular Furniture in the Living Environment (HC) - 1878529471 This ground-breaking book, in English and Chinese, features classical Chinese furniture in hardwoods alongside regional vernacular furniture in softwoods. Examples in both categories are drawn from the Kai-Yin Lo Collection as well as other sources. It is also the first time that furniture is placed in the context of the household, architecture and the living environment. Essays by leading scholars offers an in-depth examination and open new avenues of enquiry and scholarship creating new und... $69.50     View Details Add To Cart
	Classical Chinese Furniture in the Minneapolis Institute - 1878529609 This volume describes and illustrates nearly one hundred examples of classical Chinese furniture donated to The Minneapolis Institute of Arts by Ruth and Bruce Dayton. Considered one of the finest public collections in the world, this catalog includes over 150 illustrations and text that help provide the historical and social context of hardwood and lacquer furniture produced primarily during the late Ming and early Qing periods. Catalog entries were written by Robert Jacobsen with construct... $55.25     View Details Add To Cart
	Collector's Guide to Chinese Dress Accessories - 9812047298 For the first time, here is a complete guide to Chinese dress accessories worn during the Qing dynasty and the period up to the middle of the twentieth century. The topics covered include headwear, jewelry, collars, xia pei, doudous, purses and fans, footwear and home furnishings. The author also provides readers background on techniques, symbolism, social relationships, and the official regulations governing dress. A valuable reference for students of Chinese history, art lovers, and antique... $38.50     View Details Add To Cart
	Coromandel Lacquer Screens - 9053493816 Coromandel is an area of the east coast of India between the Godava River and Nagapatnam. Contrary to what its name implies, Coromandel lacquer does not come from this region but from China. Although almost all museums with a major Oriental art collection own a Coromandel screen, no monograph has so far been dedicated to that theme. This is the first book to directly address this subject. Aimed at a public with an interest in Oriental art, this book is divided into four parts. The first part ... $55.25     View Details Add To Cart
	Cultural Revolution: Posters and Memorabilia - 0764322362 The Cultural Revolution in China was a time of upheaval and change. Millions of lives were disrupted and much effort was spent by the government and the Party to reeducate the populace through a great propaganda campaign. Posters, ceramic statues, Red Books, pins, and a myriad of other means were designed to get the message across. Now, after the opening of China to the West, these things are finding their way into the collector's market. In this remarkable volume, the history of an er... $29.95     View Details Add To Cart
	Dated Qingbai Wares of the Song and Yuan Dynasties - 9627502456 This volume records one hundred pieces of qingbai ware unearthed from securely dated tombs spanning from AD 986 to 1348. They were excavated mostly in Jiangxi province where Jingdezhen, from which the production of qingbai ware originated, is located. The aforementioned kiln complex is reputed to be the most prolific in the entire ceramic industry in the Song period. A pictorial record of such archaeological data is unprecedented. It is to serve as an important reference for the authenticatio... $37.95     View Details Add To Cart
	Diamond Sutra & Paintings of Guanyin and Luohan - 9627714054 The Diamond Sutra is a very popular Buddhist text in China and is the scripture used by the Chan School of Buddhism to verify the state of mind of its practitioners ever since the time of the sixth patriarch Hui Neng. The sutra reproduced here is dated the reign of Emperor Jiaqing (1796-1820), Qing dynasty, and the text is penned by Qian Shi, a jinshi (a successful candidate in the highest imperial examinations). Altogether there are 21 paintings of the Guanyin and 9 of Luohan, rendered in th... $139.50     View Details Add To Cart
	Double Beauty: Qing Dynasty Couplets from the Lechangza - 9627101648 As a popular art form of the Qing dynasty, couplets are representative of the period calligraphy. The exhibits are selected from the fine collection of Mr. Harold Wong,master of the Lechangzai Xuan and a renowned landscape painter and connoisseur on Chinese painting and calligraphy. In the catalog are 150 couplets in full color with detailed bilingual description. The entries are prepared by graduate students from the University of California at Santa Barbara, the Maryland University and the ... $57.50     View Details Add To Cart
	Early Chinese Ceramics from New York State Museums - 0295971665 The China House Gallery of the China Institute in America marked its 25th anniversary with an extraordinary exhibition in 1991. Early Chinese Ceramics from New York State Museums is the catalog. There separate photos (lack & white) for each item with explanitory text on the adjacent page. Martie W. Young, Professor of Art History at Cornell University (and curator of Asian Art and Acting Director of the Hebert Johnson Museum of Art) wrote the catalog. His intimate knowledge of the subj... $12.50     View Details Add To Cart

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