Author: Grandidier, Ernest
Title: La Céramique Chinoise: Porcelaine Orientale, Date de Sa Découverte, Explication Des Sujets de Décor--Les Usages Divers Classification
Description: Paris, France, Librairie de Firmin-Didot et Cie, 1894. Hardcover. 3/4 brown leather with 5 raised-bands. Gilt tooling and devices on the spine and in the compartments. Marbled endpapers, top edge gilt. 232 pp + 42 bw heliogravure plates. Text in French (Chinese Ceramics: Oriental Porcelain, Date of its Discovery, Explication of the Subjects of its Decoration--The Usages of Different Classification). Beginning in the 870s / 1880s Ernest Grandidier became one of the great specialists in Chinese ceramics; chief curator at the Louvre Museum from 1894, his collection is now kept at the Guimet Museum. VG-, mild wear to extremities, small bookplate of A.B. Spanjaard inside front cover a nice copy overall with great shelf appeal .

Keywords: Asian Art ; Chinese Ceramics ; ; Ceramics - Asian


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