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	Early Chinese Metalwork in the Collection of the Seattle Art Museum - 0932216315 This volume illustrates a selection of Chinese bronzes from Shang to Han in the collection of the Seattle Art Museum, with a focus on ceremonial vessels. $6.50     View Details Add To Cart
	Eastern Zhou Ritual Bronzes-Arthur M. Sackler Collection - 0810932661 The supreme art form of ancient China was the bronze ritual vessel. Kings and nobles offered food and drink to their ancestors in spectacular cast bronze containers which served to advertise the owner's wealth and power no less than his piety. Many of the bronzes eventually found their way into the tombs of their owners, where they lay undisturbed for centuries or millennia until accidental discovery or the archaeologist's spade brought them once more to light. The vast collection of Chinese ... $80.75     View Details Add To Cart
	Echoes of Old China: Traditional Belief and Values by Trea Wiltshire - 9627283886 Among the world's earliest shopkeepers, the Chinese cherish the roots of their commerce and the products they have bartered and traded for centuries. Now in its 3rd edition, Echoes of Old China is a tribute to the distinctive flavor, style and presentation of this traditional merchandise in its many varied forms. Two photographers, Benno Gross, a Dane and Kwan Kwong Chung, a leading Hong Kong photographer, journeyed from teahouse to temple, from herbalist to seal engravers to capture the char... $17.95     View Details Add To Cart
	Elegance and Radiance: Grandeur in Qing Glass - 9627101516 In as much as Chinese glass made its first appearance around the Zhou period, it was not until the early Qing dynasty that development of this medium proceeded in earnest. Throughout the three consecutive reigns of Kangxi, Yongzheng and Qianlong, enormous quantity of glass objects were produced with high standard at the glasshouse of the Palace Workshops. It is during these periods that glass manufacture in China reached a pinnacle. This is a catalogue to accompany the exhibition of ELEGANCE... $114.75     View Details Add To Cart
	Ethereal Elegance: Porcelain Vases of the Imperial Qing - 9789627101840 Ceramic outputs from the Imperial Porcelain Factory at Jingdezhen of the Qing dynasty (1644-1911) have long been admired for their sumptuous decorative style and superb firing techniques. This exhibition is a testimony of this - through a comprehensive display of porcelain vases of a wide range of shapes, decorative techniques and glaze effects. All exhibits are drawn from the renowned Huaihaitang collection of Mr Anthony K. W. Cheung. $129.50     View Details Add To Cart
	Exquisite Moments: West Lake and Southern Song Art - 0965427056 This exhibition reevaluates Southern Song art in the context of the geography, cultural traditions and historical references of West Lake in Hangzhou. The Southern Song (1127 - 1279) capital of Lin an, located near beautiful West Lake, was the center of a dynasty that looked largely inward. In this regard, the story of Southern Song art can be presented in a manner that is site specific. The exhibition includes over 50 paintings (album leaves, hanging scrolls and fan paintings) and lustrous c... $45.38     View Details Add To Cart
	Extraordinary Persons : Works by Eccentric, Non-Conformist Japanese Artists of the Early Modern Era (1580-1868) - 1891771000 The Powers Collection, formed with the assistance of leading Japanese scholars, is one of the largest and most comprehensive in the West and includes works by such outstanding painters as Yosa Buson, Ike no Taiga, and Uragami Gyokudo and literary figures such as novelist Ihara Saikaku and poet Matsuo Basho. This new catalogue is the result of studies of the collection undertaken for nearly thirty years by Harvard University faculty and students under the direction of John Rosenfield, an outs... $142.50     View Details Add To Cart
	Flower and Bird Painting of the Ming & Qing Periods - 9627101575 Edited by Li Chi-kwong, Flower and Bird Painting of the Ming and Qing Periods (Ming Qing Hua Niao Hua) accompanies an exhibition jointly organized by the Guangdong Provincial Museum and the Art Museum, The Chinese University of Hong Kong. One hundred representative flower and bird paintings of the Ming and Qing periods are selected from the two museums collections. The best-known painters and styles of this revolutionary period are included: from Lin Liang and L| Ji of the early Ming, who ... $57.50     View Details Add To Cart
	For the Imperial Court: Qing Porcelain from the Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art - 9813066016 For the Imperial Court: Qing Porcelain from the Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art if the catalog of the first exhibition focusing on the Percival David Foundation's remarkable 17th- and 18th-century porcelains to travel to the U.S. The collection is particularly rich in examples of the rare imperial porcelains decorated with delicate overglaze enamel design, documenting one of China's enduring contributions to the arts. The magnificent Qing examples in the exhibition and in this... $18.49     View Details Add To Cart
	Gu Kaizhi and the Admonitions Scroll - 0714124142 This volume is a compilation of papers from the international colloquy held in June 2001, jointly organized by the Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art and the British Museum. It is a full publication of an iconic early major masterwork of Chinese figure painting which has been in the British Museum since 1903 but is rarely on display for conservation reasons. The book makes use of new high-quality digital photography of every aspect of the world-famous scroll. Contents: Introduction: T... $102.00     View Details Add To Cart
	Hare's Fur, Tortoiseshell, and Patridge Feathers - 0916724883 Hare's Fur, Tortoiseshell, and Partridge Feathers is the first catalog of its kind to examine the exquisite Chinese brown and black glazed wares (including those commonly known as Temmoku), tracing their evolution and development from the fifth to the fifteenth century. Illustrated with fine and important pieces from famous museum and private collections, it includes excellent essays and definitive entries by Robert D. Mowry, with contributions on specific historical and technical aspe... $27.50     View Details Add To Cart
	I Don't Want to Play Cards with Cezanne and Other Works - 187792105X The essays and entries of this catalog help define the decade of the Eighties as an important period in modern Chinese art history. $9.95     View Details Add To Cart
	Inscribed Bamboo and Wooden Strips and Tablets - 9627101532 Two Hundred and Forty inscribed bamboo and wooden strips and tablets in the collection of the Art Museum, The Chinese University of Hong Kong are published for the first time in this monograph. There are 10 strips belonging to the Chu State of the Warring States period, 229 pieces dated to the Han dynasty and 1 of the Jin period. All the items are color printed in original sizes by computer scanning and arranged in chronological order. The decipherment and detailed annotation are by Chen Song... $51.00     View Details Add To Cart
	Jades from China (HC) - The Museum of East Asian Art - 1897734034 A magnificently produced catalog of the major exhibition at the Museum of East Asian Art, Bath, England. Illustrating 354 Chinese jades from the collection of Brian McElney, the Peony Collection and the Rannerdale Collection, this bilingual volume includes some 14 up-to-date essays on the art of Chinese jade carving, covering such subjects as "Jade-The Raw Material", "The Supply of Jade to China Through the Ages", "Working with Jade" and individual essays on all periods from Neolithic period ... $47.50     View Details Add To Cart
	Jades from China (SC) - The Museum of East Asian Art - 1897734042 A magnificently produced catalog of the major exhibition at the Museum of East Asian Art, Bath, England. Illustrating 354 Chinese jades from the collection of Brian McElney, the Peony Collection and the Rannerdale Collection, this bilingual volume includes some 14 up-to-date essays on the art of Chinese jade carving, covering such subjects as "Jade-The Raw Material", "The Supply of Jade to China Through the Ages", "Working with Jade" and individual essays on all periods from Neolithic period ... $43.50     View Details Add To Cart
	Jades of the Liangzhu Culture (The Dawn of Chinese Civilization) - 9627101400 The town of Liangzhu is situated on the north bank of the Qiantang River and to the Southeast of Lake Tai. The term Liangzhu has also been used to name late Neolithic culture (c. 5300-4000 BP) in the same era. This culture is characterized by advanced paddy farming tools, exquisite black pottery vessels and refined jade artifacts. After six decades of investigation, the nucleus of the Liangzhu culture has been identified to be located in the three towns of Liangzhu, Anxi and Pingyao. Villages... $42.00     View Details Add To Cart
	Journey into China's Antiquity Vol. 1 - 7505404768 Compiled and written by experts from the National Museum of Chinese History, Beijing, which houses the most recent and important archaeological artifacts, this series of 4 volumes takes the reader through the development of Chinese culture through its rich collection of artifacts. Well-edited and illustrated with excellent photographs, the series aims to give a faithful and reliable guide to Chinese cultural history. Featuring some of the most spectacular items ever discovered, it tells a sto... $68.00     View Details Add To Cart
	Journey into China's Antiquity Vol. 2 - 7505404830 This second volume covers the Warring States period (4th century BC) to the Northern and Southern Dynasties (6th century BC). Here we learn about the Warring States period, its accomplishment in fostering new ideas and schools of thoughts, the unification of China, socially and economically, by the First Emperor of Qin, then its decline and the rise and splendor of the Han dynasty, and later came the first major contact between China and foreigners through Central Asia and the arrival of Budd... $37.50     View Details Add To Cart
	Journey into China's Antiquity Vol. 3 - 7505405071 Covering the period from the end of the sixth century to the late 13th century, this volume witnesses the zenith of international contact in the Tang dynasty as manifested in all art forms: ceramics, painting, sculpture, literature, etc. After Tang declined and the country fragmented, the Song dynasty rose and became one of the most vital dynasties famous for its finest ceramics and paintings. $37.50     View Details Add To Cart
	Journey into China's Antiquity Vol. 4 - 7505405144 Journey into China's Antiquity Vol. 4 covers the period from the Yuan to the Qing dynasty. In this volume we witness the Mongolian achievements, the Manchu conquest, and the rise of foreign power that saw the end of Chinese dynastic empires. Illustrated with exquisite paintings and artifacts, including tributes from other countries to the Qing court. $37.50     View Details Add To Cart

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