GUY, JOHN S. - Oriental Trade Ceramics in South-East Asia Ninth to Sixteenth Centuries: With a Catalogue of Chinese, Vietnamese and Thai Wares in Australian CollectionsOxford University Press, Singapore. 1986. (ISBN: 0195825934). Hardcover, with dust jacket. Book, English text; Hardcover (with dust jacket); 21 x 28 cm; 0.907 kg; 161 pages with 123 black-and-white illustrations, 49 in colour, 41 figures and 3 maps.; Used book in very good condition with minor signs of wear on the front cover, spine and back cover. The spine is slightly faded. Interior as new.; This book is a revised and updated version of the catalogue published by the National Gallery of Victoria in conjunction with its exhibition of oriental trade ceramics in South East Asia held in Melbourne and other Australian cities during the course of 1980. The exhibition was a "feast for the senses" whose outstanding features have been preserved in the pages of this book along with of the fabulous trade in ceramics from China and from within South-East Asia itself. As professor Wang Gungwu has said, "the traditional trade in oriental ceramics may not be as well-known as that in silk, spices or tea, but is certainly no less significant in advancing Western understanding of Asia.". John Guy was the Assistant Keeper in the Indian Department at the Victoria and Albert Museum, South Kensington, London. Good/Dust Jacket Included. EUR 85.00 [Appr.: US$ 92.89 | £UK 71.25 | JP¥ 13860] Book number 427Bis offered by:
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