Author: CHRISTIE'S LONDON
Title: The Peony Pavilion Collection: Chinese Tea Ceramics for Japan (C. 1580-1650), Monday 12 June 1989
Description: Christie's Manson & Woods Ltd, London. 1989, 1st Edition. Hardcover, with dust jacket. Book, English text; Hardcover (with dust jacket); 21 x 26.5 cm.; 0.6 Kg.; 200 lots with colour illustrations.; Used with signs of wear on the exterior of the dust jacket, namely edgewear and a a few wear signs on the front cover, spine and back cover. Interior in very good condition.; Catalogue from the sale CHONGZHEN-4070 held at Christies Manson and Woods, London on Monday, the 12th of June 1989 with 200 lots.; "The auction of this collection gives western collectors and academics the opportunity, unprecedented in Europe, to examine an extensive range of the specialised types of late Ming Chinese export ceramics, made for the Japanese market at a period of some obscurity in Chinese porcelain production No such family collection has been offered for sale before outside Japan, and this is almost certainly the most varied and instructive study group of such wares assembled anywhere in the west." excerpt from the introductory text. Good/Dust Jacket Included.

Keywords: china,chinese porcelain for the japanese market,peony pavilion,chinese ceramics,chinese tea ceramics


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