IMPEY, OLIVER

Chinoiserie: The Impact of Oriental Styles on Western Art and Decoration

Charles Scribner's Sons, New York. 1977, 1st Edition. (ISBN: 0684146797). Hardcover, with dust jacket. Book, English text; Hardcover (with dust jacket); 22 x 25 cm; 0.9 Kg; 208 pages with black-and-white and colour illustrations.; Used with signs of wear, namely on the dust jacket that has a minor tear on the back cover. Interior in very good condition. The dust jacket is now protected with a clearcover.; The styles called chinoiserie were the European dream of the Orient, as escapist style of decoration that flourished in the courts and houses of seventeenth and eighteenth century Europe. The lighthearted fantasy of chinoiserie was one of jade pavilions, pleasure domes, ivory pagodas, delicate bridges over rushing rivers, and it is reflected in places like the Royal Pavilion in Brighton, England, the splendors of Versailles, and the exotic lacquered cabinets and the ceramics of England, Holland, and France. This Western idea of what oriental things were like - or ought to be like - is still evident today in fabrics and tableware which owe their patterns to oriental origins. Oliver Impey first traces the trade between East and West that over the centuries brought exotic goods to Europe. The high price and comparative scarcity of such imports quickly led to imitations in both Europe and America. These imitations were often wildly inaccurate and highly fanciful, for they were based not only on the importations, but also on travellers' tales heard second - or third-hand. And, in the course of the trading, the ultimate origin of the imported object was often forgotten: this made it easier for the European designers and craftsmen to mix indiscriminately motifs, patterns, and material drawn from totally different oriental countries - China, Persia and India. The articles thus derived - furniture, textiles, architecture, gardens, and ceramics - are chinoiserie. Oliver Impey examines the varied applications of the style from its beginnings through its height in the mid-eighteenth century when chinoiserie mixed with the flourishing rococo style, to its modern application in textile and ceramic design. Good/Dust Jacket Included.

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Book number: 740B

Catalogue: Asian Art

Keywords: 0684146797 china,chinoiserie,textiles,paintings,furniture,lacquer,japan,metalwork Chinese Ceramics Japanese Art

IRVINE, GREGORY (EDITOR)

Japanese Art and Design

V&A Publishing, London. 2016, 1st Edition. (ISBN: 9781851778553). Hardcover. Book, English text; Hardcover (without dust jacket - as issued).; 23 x 25.5 cm; 1.2 Kg; 256 pages with colour illustrations.; Used with minor signs of wear. As new.; Japan has a centuries-long tradition of producing stunningly beautiful and intricate crafts. Japanese ceramics, lacquerware, metalwork, textiles and decorative carvings have a global reputation for refinement and technique. Japanese Art and Design. drawing on the V&A's world-class collections, explores these arts and crafts thematically through chapters that focus on such areas as the influence of Buddhism and Shinto, samurai patronage, the highly aestheticized tea ceremony, ukiyo-e and the graphic arts, and the influence of the West on these arts. Chapters on modern and contemporary crafts and design include discussions of Japan's endless technological innovations and product design, showing how the country's traditions of quality and artistry continue today. As New/No Jacket.

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Book number: 749B

Catalogue: Collections and Exhibitions

Keywords: 9781851778553 japan,japanese art,relion and ritual,the samurai,tea drinking,fashionable living,ukiyo-e and the graphic arts,the encounter with Europe 1543-1853,imperail japan: meiji to taisho,folk crafts,modern and contemporary crafts,modern and contempor

DIVIS, JAN; AND ERNOULD-GANDOUET, MARIELLE

L'Art de la Porcelaine En Europe

Gründ, 1989. 1989, 3rd Edition. (ISBN: 270002124X). Hardcover, with dust jacket. Book, French text; Hardcover (cloth with dust jacket); 232 with a total of 146 illustrations, 82 black and white and 64 in colour; 21.5 x 28.5 cm; 1.205 Kg; Used book with signs of wear, namely some peeling of the laminated layer of the dust jacket. The interior is in excellent condition except for our logo glued to the front free endpaper and some wear marks on the rear free endpaper.; Since ancient times that men have made ceramics. Several 'images' of lost civilisations have reached our time through recovered ceramic wares in good condition or in the form of fragments. From time to time, ceramics has become one of the most refined forms of applied arts. Resulting from research and the triumph of craftsmanship, porcelain emerges as the peak of ceramics. It was in China that everything began and still today, one can only admire and handle, with much precaution and love, those admirable pieces of Chinese porcelain. Europeans shared this wonder many centuries before us. The history of the discovery of the secret of making porcelain appears to be a wonderful adventure, a quest for the beauty of its shapes and colours, with failures and at some points tainted by sordid financial considerations, but culminating in an artistic apotheosis in which Europe took part. In this rigorous and scientific book, one will experience the extraordinary adventure of the art of porcelain in Europe, mainly from the early 17th century to the early 20th century. This adventure that may be read like a romantic novel, yet is guided by accurate historical facts. Known as the golden century of porcelain, the 18th century is largely evoked in this book, which is as much a book as it is an encyclopedia of the art of porcelain in Europe for amateurs. 146 illustrations - of which 64 are in colour and 82 in black and white - chosen in an exemplary way, offer the reader an ideal overview of this art made of subtleties and more than precious due to its fragility. Good/Dust Jacket Included.

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Book number: 283ABE

Catalogue: European Ceramics

Keywords: 270002124X PORCELAINE,PORCELAIN,CHINA,EUROPE

PORTAL, JANE (ED.); WITH THE ASSISTANCE OF HINOSHITA, HIROMI

The First Emperor: China's Terracotta Army

The British Museum Press, A division of The British Museum Company Ltd, London. 2007, 1st Edition. (ISBN: 9780714124476). Soft cover. Book, English text; Paperback; 23 x 29 cm; 1.239 Kg; 240 pages with 250 colour illustrations.; New book with signs of shelf wear.; The chance discovery in 1974 of the life-size terracotta army of the First Emperor of China (r.221-210 BC) astounded the world. Haunting lines of warriors were reveled - frozen for all time in clay. For two thousand years they had silently guarded the vast tomb complex of one of the greatest military leaders in history. Published to accompany a once-in-a-lifetime exhibition at the British Museum, this important book explores the tangible evidence of Qin Shihuangdi's existence, his great achivements and his vision. He rose from his position as king of the Qin in western China to conquer the six other major states and control a vast territory. Wielding enormous power, he ordered 120,000 families to move to his new capital and summoned 700,000 men from all over the empire to build his tomb. He bequeathed a legacy to China that long affected the rise and fall of dynasties, shaped the form of government and established firm, authoritarian ways of governing the land and its peoples. With contributions from leading scholars and based on the latest research and excavations, the First Emperor unfolds the historical and archaeological context of China's astonishing terracotta army - and offers a remarkable insight into the mind and ambitions of a mortal who wished to rule for all eternity. As New/No Jacket.

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Book number: 383B

Catalogue: Collections and Exhibitions

Keywords: 9780714124476 CHINA,EMPEROR,QIN EMPIRE

JARRY, MADELEINE

Chinoiseries: Le Rayonnement Du Gout Chinois Sur Les Arts Decoratifs Des Xviie Et Xviiie Siecles

Office du Livre, Editions Vilo, Paris. 1981. (ISBN: 2719101451). Hardcover, with dust jacket. Book, French text.; Hardcover (with dust jacket).; 24.7 x 28.5 cm.; 2 Kg; 256 pages with 250 illustrations, 60 in colour. The dust jacket is now protected with a clearcover.; Used with minor signs of wear. As new.; Focusing on the various forms of chinoiserie, such as textiles, ceramics, furniture and other art objects and the influence of China and Japan in Europe during the 17th and 18th centuries. As New/Dust Jacket Included.

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Book number: 738B

Catalogue: Chinese Ceramics

Keywords: 2719101451 china,ceramic,porcelain,european ceramics,chinese ceramics,textiles,furniture,bronzes European Ceramics Asian Art

JENYNS, SOAME

Later Chinese Porcelain: The Ch'Ing Dynasty (1644-1912)

Faber and Faber Limited, London. 1965, 3rd Edition. (ISBN: 0571047610). Hardcover, with dust jacket. Book, English text; Hardcover (with dust jacket); 16.5 x 25.5 cm; 0.763 kg; 111 pages plus appendix with plates. Includes 120 pages of monochrome half-tone illustrations and 6 colour plates.; Used book in good condition with signs of wear, namely some wear marks, scuffs and tears on the dust jacket. The dust jacket is now protected with a clearcover.; This book is devoted less to the familiar famille verte and famille rose which were largely export wares made specially for the European market than to the wares of the same period in the true Chinese taste. When it was first published in 1951 interest in the latter wares, which were not on the whole well represented in western collections, was limited, but it was stimulated first by the great Burlington House exhibition in 1935 and since then by the display of the imperial collections in the National Palace Museum in Taiwan, which have become well known to western connoisseurs. Ch'ing porcelain in the Chinese taste is now better know and appreciated than ever before. Mr. Jenyn's pioneer work must have played no small part in bringing to the study of Chinese porcelain a greater appreciation in the west of the finest porcelain of the Ch'ing dynasty. His book still remains the only major work dealing with this subject. For this third edition the text had been revised and brought up to date, and there are two new colour plates. Fair/Dust Jacket Included.

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Book number: 498B

Catalogue: Chinese Ceramics

Keywords: 0571047610 chinese porcelain,ceramics,reference,ch'ing dynasty Chinese Art

JENYNS, SOAME

Later Chinese Porcelain: The Ch'Ing Dynasty (1644-1912)

Faber and Faber Limited, London. 1971, 4th Edition. (ISBN: 0571047610). Hardcover, with dust jacket. Book, English text; Hardcover (with dust jacket); 16.5 x 25.5 cm; 0.763 kg; 111 pages plus appendix with plates. Includes 120 pages of monochrome half-tone illustrations and 6 colour plates.; Used book in good condition with signs of wear. Old owner stamp on front free endpaper. The dust jacket is now protected with a clearcover.; This book is devoted less to the familiar famille verte and famille rose which were largely export wares made specially for the European market than to the wares of the same period in the true Chinese taste. When it was first published in 1951 interest in the latter wares, which were not on the whole well represented in western collections, was limited, but it was stimulated first by the great Burlington House exhibition in 1935 and since then by the display of the imperial collections in the National Palace Museum in Taiwan, which have become well known to western connoisseurs. Ch'ing porcelain in the Chinese taste is now better know and appreciated than ever before. Mr. Jenyn's pioneer work must have played no small part in bringing to the study of Chinese porcelain a greater appreciation in the west of the finest porcelain of the Ch'ing dynasty. His book still remains the only major work dealing with this subject. For this, the fourth edition, the text has been revised and brought up to date and there are two new colour plates, bringing the total to eight. Good/Dust Jacket Included.

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Book number: 766B

Catalogue: Chinese Ceramics

Keywords: 0571047610 chinese porcelain,ceramics,reference,ch'ing dynasty Chinese Art Asian Art

JENYNS, SOAME

Ming Pottery and Porcelain

Faber and Faber Limited, London. 1953, 1st Edition. Hardcover. Book, English text.; Hardcover (without dust jacket); 16 x 26 cm; 0.8 Kg; 160 pages followed by an addendum with black-and-white illustrations ; Used with signs of wear on the exterior and interior. Overall in good condition. Yellowing on front and rear free endpaper. Good readable copy.; "The study of Chinese porcelain has always been a difficult one in Europe, chiefly on account of the customary use of commemorative marks. With the growing western familiarity with Chinese script it seemed possible about 1900 to start the business of classification seriously. This was in the west chiefly a study of the apparently capricious forging of export porcelains which commonly bore not the reign-names but the names of earlier famous Emperors in whose reigns they might have been made but in fact were not. This fact was not appreciated by the western purchaser and eventually a wave of optimism began to rise and wares with Ming marks began to be accepted as of the Dynasty or reign. But so great a quantity of Chinese porcelain was being imported, most of it still bearing a Ming reign-mark, that it has taken nearly a century to discredit its marking. What was 'Ming' is still Ming; the name has become a 'household word' for old Chinese porcelain in general. Lastly came the present phase of reaction when it has become a fashionable pursuit to 'spot' the Ming pieces in cabinets mainly devoted to the wares of K'ang Hsi (1662 . 1722). For it was obvious that much Ming porcelain must exist in western collections and it has been Mr. Jenyns's task to help us to recognise it. With his wide knowledge of literary and classical Chinese, his familiarity with the old Chinese books on porcelain, as well as his gifts as poet-translator, he is well equipped to distinguish the true Ming wares." foreword by W.B.H. Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 629B

Catalogue: Chinese Ceramics

Keywords: china,porcelain,ceramics,ming pottery,ming porcelain,ming ceramics Asian Art

JEWITT, LLEWELLYNN

The Ceramic Art of Great Britain

0. (ISBN: 1850790337). Hardcover, with dust jacket. Book, English text; Hardcover (with dust jacket); 17.5 x 25.5 cm; 1.3 Kg; 642 pages with illustrations throughout; Used book with minor signs of wear. The dust jacket is now protected with a permanent clearcover.; "When some twenty years ago at the instance of my dear friend Mr S.C. Hall, I began my series of papers in the Art Journal upon the various famous earthenware and porcelain works of the kingdom, but little had been done in that direction, and the information I got together from time to time had to be produced from original sources, by prolonged visits to the places themselves and by numberless applications to all sorts of people from whom even scraps of reliable matter coould be obtained. Books on the subject were not many, and the information they contained on English Ceramics was meagre in the extreme. Since then numerous workers have sprung up, and their published volumes - many of them sumptuous and truly valuable works - attest strongly to the interests and pains they have taken in the subject. To all these, who ever they may be, the world owes a debt of gratitude for devoting their time and their talents to so important a branch of study. No work, has, however, until now been entirely devoted to the one subject of British Ceramics and I feel therefore in presenting my present volumes to the public I am only carrying out the plan I at first laid down, and am not even in the slightest degree encroaching on the province of any other writer. I think I may safely say there is scarcely a manufacture - even if there be one at all - in the length and breadth of the kingdom with whom I have not frequently communicated in the progress of this work. Except in some few solitary instances I have received the information I have sought, and my inquiries have met with the most cordial and ready response." introduction from the first editio by Llewellynn Jewitt, Winster Hall, Derbyshire, November 1877. Good/Dust Jacket Included.

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Book number: 587B

Catalogue: European Ceramics

Keywords: 1850790337 porcelain,england,history

CARSWELL, JOHN AND DOWSETT, C.J.F

Kutahya Tiles and Pottery from the Armenian Cathedral of St. James, Jerusalem (2 Volumes)

Oxford University Press. 1972, 1st Edition. Hardcover, with dust jacket. Book, English text; Hardcover (with dust jackets); 24 x 33.2 cm; Volume 1-The Pictorial Tiles and Other Vessels, including catalogue of inscribed and dated armenian pottery by John Carswell and an edition of the armenian texts with a translation and notes by C.J.F. Dowsett (ISBN: 0-19-817176-5, 1.2 Kg, 132 pages) and Volume 2-A Historical Survey of the Kutahya Industry and a Catalogue of the Decorative Tiles by John Carswell (ISBN 0-19-817176-5, 1.5 Kg, 207 pages).; Colour and black and white illustrations throughout.; Used with signs of wear on the dust jackets and on the interior. The dust jacket is price clipped, and show signs of wear, namely minor tears. The dust jackets are now protected with clearcovers. Some pages of volume 2 have signs of have been bent at the bottom of the pages. Interior in good condition.; Volume II is signed by the author with a dedication to a previous owner.; In A.D. 1718/19, Armenian potters in Kutahya in north-western Turkey made a series of pictorial tiles for the restoration of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem. Never used for their original purpose, the majority were instead set in the walls of the Armenian Cathedral of St. James in Jerusalem. Painted with Biblical subjects, the original sequence has now been reconstructed, on the basis of an Armenian chronicle written on the lower margins. The chronicle itself contains interesting details concerning the spiritual and temporal fortunes of the Armeninan Patriarchate in Jerusalem in the early eighteenth century. In the first volume, bowls and dishes similarly decorated, and part of the same donation, are also described, and there is a detailed catalogue of all inscribed and dated Kutahya pottery throughout the world. The second volume uses this material to trace the origins and development of the Kutahya pottery industry from the fifteenth century onwards, and its relationship to the Ottoman pottery industry at Isnik. There is also a catalogue of the different types of Kutahya tiles, amongst the thousands used to decorate the Cathedral and its dependant churches in Jerusalem, during the renovations that took place between A.D. 1727-37. Copiously illustrated with colour and monochrome plates, text figures, and plans, the work also gives details of Kutahya tiles in churches and mosques throughout the Near East. There are also separate studies on hanging ornaments, incense-holders, Chinese porcelain tiles and Kutahya copies of them, potters' marks, and a spectrographic analysys of samples of Kutahya, Isnik, Damascus, and other pottery, including the famous Godman ewer and water-bottle. Good/Dust Jacket Included.

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Book number: 814B

Catalogue: Generic Books

Keywords: pottery,ceramics,tiles,cathedral of st. james jerusalem,tiles

JÖRG, CHRISTIAAN; CLUNAS, CRAIG; HARRISON-HALL, JESSICA; CAIGER-SMITH, ALAN; SCOTT, ROSEMARY; GRUBE, ERNST; HARDIE, PETER; WHITFIELD, RODERICK; CUSHION, JOHN AND MARGARET

Transactions of the Oriental Ceramic Society 1993-1994 Volume 58

The Oriental Ceramic Society. 1995. Hardcover. Book, English text; Hardcover (cloth); 21.5 x 28.5 cm; 0.687 Kg; 11 pages (Members of the Council, Transactions and obituaries) plus 94 pages with various colour and black-and-white illustrations; Used book with almost no signs of shelf wear as the book is protected with a trimsleeve Dustwrapper. The interior is in very good condition.; Includes the following articles: Exoticism in Japan – Japanese Interest in Dutch Ceramics and Other Curiosities by Christiaan Jörg; Report on the Study Day on the 16th century Chinese Ceramics by Craig Clunas; Research Display on 16th century Chinese Ceramics at the British Museum by Jessica Harrison-Hall; A Group of Chinese Stoneware Sculptures Reunited by Nick Pearce; Continuity and Innovation in Ceramics by Alan Caiger-Smith; Decorative Links between Porcelain and Silk in the Qing Period by Rosemary Scott; Timurid Ceramics: Filling a Gap in Islamic Ceramic History by Ernst Grube; Summaries of Lectures by Peter Hardie and Roderick Whitfield; and Visit to Lisbon by John and Margaret Cushion. Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: ABE63

Catalogue: Periodicals and Magazines

Keywords: ceramics,porcelain,asian Asian Art

JORG, CHRISTIAAN J.A.

Jan Menze Van Diepen Stichting: A Selection from the Collection of Oriental Ceramics

Jan Menze van Diepen Stichting. 2002, 1st Edition. (ISBN: 9080579327). Hardcover, with dust jacket. Book, English and Dutch text; Hardcover (with dust jacket); 22.9 x 30.4 cm; 1.4 Kg; 214 pages with colour illustrations throughout.; Used with signs of wear, namely on the dust jacket that is chipped and has tears. Interior in good condition. The dust jacket is now protected with a clearcover.; Jan Menze van Diepen was born in 1905 in Waterhuizen to a family of Gronigen shipbuilders. He was a versatile and passionate collector who brought together an extensive collection of paintings, prints and Oriental porcelain. Following his death in 1994, his unique collection was transferred to the J.M. van Diepen Foundation and is now housed in the Fraeylemaborg, an 18th century country estate in Slochteren, Groningen. This publication, the second in the series Selections from the J.M. van Diepen Collection, is dedicated to export porcelain from China and Japan. Van Diepen's rich collection of c. 2500 objects includes many interesting and rare pieces dating from the 15th to the 20th century, of which 145 are illustrated and described here. Good/Dust Jacket Included.

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Book number: 801B

Catalogue: Collections and Exhibitions

Keywords: 9080579327 china,chinese ceramics,porcelain,jan menze van diepen dtichting Chinese Ceramics Asian Art

MEECH, JULIA AND OLIVER, JANE (EDITORS); WITH ESSAYS BY: CARPENTER, JOHN T.; CLARK, TIMOTHY; DAVIS, JULIE NELSON; HOCKLEY, ALLEN; JENKINS, DONALD; POLLACK, DAVID; THOMPSON, SARAH E.; WATERHOUSE, DAVID

Designed for Pleasure: The World of Edo Japan in Prints and Paintings, 1680-1860

Asia Society, New York and Japansese Art Society of America. 2008. (ISBN: 9780295987866). Soft cover. Book, English text.; Paperback. 24.5 x 30.5 cm; 1.5 Kg; 256 pages with colour illustrations.; Used with minor signs of wear. Interior in very good condition.; Catalogue from the exhibition held at the Asia Society and Museum, New York from February 27 to May 4, 2008.; "The exceptional paintings, prints and illustrated books in the present exhibition - all drawn from the collections of members and supporters of the Japanese Art Society of America - give viewers the opportunity to experience and appreciate the breadth of the ukiyo-e tradition in a new light. The exhibition and catalogue explore the intertwined worlds of art, popular culture, commerce and society of Edo Japan in a focused examination by a team of renowned experts." excerpt from the preface by Vishahka N. Desai, President of the Asia Society.; "This exhibition brings together approximately one hundred fifty paintings, woodblock prints and illustrated books, with images known as ukiyo-e, or pictures of the floating world - The floating world was a new leisure industry of popular entertainment centered in the shogunal capital of Edo (modern Tokyo). The carefully selected images in the exhibition not only present the principals of that realm - the actor, the artist, the courtesan, the poet, the publisher, the patron - they also examine the confluences and contradictions in a time of enourmous social, cultural and economic change in Japan. The exhibtion and catalogue focus on individuals - adding to the already substantial scholarship on Hokusai, Hiroshige and Utamaro - including the father of ukiyo-e, Hishikawa Moronobu, the artist and publisher Okumura Masanobu, the color innovator Susuki Harunobo, the master publisher Tsutaya Juzaburo and the briliant painter Katsukawa Shunsho." excerpt by the foreword by Melissa Chiu, Director of the Asia Society. Very Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 731B

Catalogue: Japanese Art

Keywords: 9780295987866 japan,japanese art,edo period,ukiyoe,woodblock prints,ukiyo-e,floating world Asian Art

DAVEY, NEIL K. AND TRIPP, SUSAN G.

The Garrett Collection. Japanese Art: Lacquer, Inro, Netsuke

Dauphin Publishing Limited, London. 1993, 1st Edition. (ISBN: 1872357075). Hardcover. Book, English text; Hardcover (without dust jacket).; 25 x 32 cm; 2.4 Kg; 325 pages with colour and black and white illustrations throughout.; Used book. Interior as new. Signs of wear on the hardcover cloth. Lacks the dust jacket.; "The Garrett Collection of Japanese Lacquer, inrõ, and netsuke offers an unusual research opportunity. As a virtually undisturbed first-generation collection, one of the few in the United States, one gains valuable insights into the collecting habits of one family. Also, light is shed on the availability of certain objects in the late nineteenth century, contemporary opinions and attributions to both the authorship and date of manufacture, as well as sense of the general level of knowledge held by Westerners about the Orient. The extensive holdings of mask netsuke alone afford one not only the opportunity to compare the nuances of the masks to one another, but also to their models, the traditional Japanese theatre mask. All pertinent information from the Garrett archives has been entered as part of each catalogue entry. Moreover, to facilitate comparisons with other published artists or objects, modern references have been supplied as well. Since this book´s inception, it has been our aim to bring the Garrett Collection of Japanese art and its associate papers and accounts to light as an entity. The publication of a first-generation collection, intact with packing boxes, silk pouches, shipping crates and correspondence, we felt would make an important contribution to the study of Japanese Art, especially as collected by an American. We have always thought that modern collectors who possess objects similar to those in the Garrett Collection would particularly appreciate knowing the background of those pieces. And knowing when certain objects were purchased or first recorded as being at Evergreen House can be a particularly useful dating tool for collectors and scholars alike. We have sought to provide the readers with an objective view and description of the art. We have also sought to give the reader through numerous references, a key that will further explain our attributions and descriptions. We hope that our research will help to shed new light on some overlooked subjects. The Garretts were a special family, able to use their wealth, interests, and knowledge in a way which would benefit others. It is our hope that we have succeeded in furthering this philosophy." from the foreword. Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 837B

Catalogue: Asian Art

Keywords: 1872357075 japan,inro,lacquer,netsuke,mask netsuke,miniature masks Japanese Art Collections and exhibitions

GORDON K., ANTOINETTE

The Iconography of Tibetan Lamaism (Revised Edition)

Hacker Art Books, New York. 1988, 2nd Edition. (ISBN: 0878173129). Hardcover. Book, English text.; Hardcover (cloth without dust jacket); 24 x 31.5 cm; 1.7 Kg; 31 pages with foreword, contents and introduction plus 131 pages with black and white illustrations throughout.; Used with signs of wear on the hardcover cloth. Interior in very good condition except for a previous owner stamp on front free endpaper and a previous bookseller sticker on the rear of the back cover.; Reprinted from the second edition (revised and enlarged) Charles E. Tutle Co. Rutland, Vermont 1959.; "The first part of the book deals with 'Ritual Objects', 'Talismans", "Symbols", Mudras (symbolic hand poses), Asanas and Vahanas (position of lower limbs), and various kinds of paintings such as Thang-ka (paintings of divinities), Mandala (ritual diagrams), Tshong-shing (assemblage of divinities), and Bhavacakramudra (commonly known as 'Wheel of Life'. The major portion of the book is devoted to the classification, and interpretation of numerous Buddhist divinities, gods on non-Buddhist Tibetan origin, and historical persons who became deified. The most important addition to the present revised edition is the inclusion of the Narthang Series of 31 Thang-kas, which represent incidents in the former lives of Gautama before he attained enlightenment. These 31 Thang-kas constitute the first group of the collection of the late Baron von Stael-Holstein of Peking, which was later added to the Tibetan Collection at the American Museum of Natural History in New York." excerpt from the critical review by Joseph M. Kitagawa, The Journal of Religion 41, no. 2 (Apr. 1961): 144-145. Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 518B

Catalogue: Generic Books

Keywords: 0878173129 tibetan lamaism,sanskrit pronunciation,ritual objects,symbols,mudras,asanas,vahanas,paintings,sacred images,buddhas, Asian Art