Author: Herridge, Elizabeth & Frances Wood:
Title: Bringing Heaven to Earth: Chinese Silver Jewellery.
Description: (24 x 28 cm), 200 pp., 150 colour ills., paperback ¶ Shining a light on a little-known area of Chinese decorative arts from 1850 to 1930, this lavishly illustrated book presents dazzling jewellery from an important private North American collection. Immortals, dragons, magpies, monkeys and bats populate this pioneering book on Chinese jewellery of the late 19th to early 20th century. In so many aspects, these exquisite objects - made with silver, jade, tourmaline, amethyst, rock crystal, rose quartz, carnelian and serpentine - reveal a previously unexplored journey, not just from Heaven to Earth but from the West to the East and back again.
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Title: Bringing Heaven to Earth: Chinese Silver Jewellery.
Description: (24 x 28 cm), 200 pp., 150 colour ills., paperback ¶ Shining a light on a little-known area of Chinese decorative arts from 1850 to 1930, this lavishly illustrated book presents dazzling jewellery from an important private North American collection. Immortals, dragons, magpies, monkeys and bats populate this pioneering book on Chinese jewellery of the late 19th to early 20th century. In so many aspects, these exquisite objects - made with silver, jade, tourmaline, amethyst, rock crystal, rose quartz, carnelian and serpentine - reveal a previously unexplored journey, not just from Heaven to Earth but from the West to the East and back again.
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Price: EUR 59.95 = appr. US$ 65.16 Seller: Scriptum Art Books v.o.f.
- Book number: 6973
- Book number: 6973
See more books from our catalog: Juwelen & edelstenen / Jewellery & Gemstones