Author: Bushell, Dr. Stephen W. and William M. Laffan and Thomas B. Clarke, William M. (identified only as W.M.L.)
Title: Catalogue of the Morgan Collection of Chinese Porcelains Volume 2
Description: NY, Privately Printed by Order of Mr. J. Pierpont Morgan, 1911. Limited to 250 copies for private circulation. Leather bound. Full calf leather, leather and moire silk pastedowns and endleaves, one of 250 copies. T.e.g. 9 1/2 x 6 3/8 inches (24 x 16 cm) lxxii, 145, [1], with 79 double-tissued chromolithographs of Chinese porcelains throughout (Numbers 78-156, with 147 as the frontis). A superb copy of this very rare, limited edition printing. This volume (Number 2) picks up where Volume 1 (printed 7 years earlier in 1904) left off. Part 1 of this book is a re-publication of the article written by D. Bushell for the 1907 Metropolitan Museum of Art catalogue and contains information regarding (at a minimum) pieces acquired since the publication of the 1904 Volume 1. It may detail pieces which were also detailed min Volume 1 as well. The explanation in the Introduction is a bit murky. Part 2 of this book contains separate Introductions by Thomas B. Clarke and William Laffan. Part 2 contains additions to the collection since the publication of (at least) the 1907 Museum catalogue (and possibly all acquisitions since the 1904 Volume 1). Pristine, from old dealer stock. A beautiful copy, never read .

Keywords: Chinese Porcelains ; Asian Art; Collections ; Morgan Collection ; Asian Art ; Collections Ceramics - Asian


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