Author: PHILLIPS, JOHN GOLDSMITH
Title: China-Trade Porcelain: An Account of Its Historical Background, Manufacture, and Decoration and a Study of the Helena Woolworth Mccann Collection
Description: Winfield Foundation and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. 1956. Hardcover, with dust jacket. Book, English text; Hardcover (without dust jacket); 22.6 x 28.1 cm, 1.221 Kg; 234 pages with colour and black and white illustrations plus 21 pages with preface by Joseph V. McMullan, Robert L. Larner and Constance W. MacMullan (The Porcelain Committee of the Winfield Foundation), list of distribution of porcelains from the McCann Collection, contents, list of figures, list of plates and introduction; Used with signs of wear. The dust jacket is in poor condition, is chipped in several parts, namely on the front cover and on back cover.The dust jacket is now protected with a clearcover. The interior show wear signs on the bottom of several pages. The remaining interior is in good condition. Good readable copy ; The Helena Woolworth McCann collection of China-Trade porcelain is a lasting tribute to the knowledge and judgment of the collector whose name it bears. The collection consists of about 4,000 pieces, including a number of large tea and dinner services, made in China to the order of European and American clients during the seventeenth, eighteen, and nineteenth centuries. Assembling such a comprehensive and distinguished group not only called for rare insight and informed taste, but required extensive travel and search in Europe. Fair/Poor.

Keywords: met,metropolitan museum of art,helena woolworth maccann collection,porcelain,china


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