WAIN, PETER AND WOOD, JO (EDITORS)

Miller's Chinese & Japanese Antiques Buyer's Guide

Octupus Books Limited, London. 2001. (ISBN: 1840001275). Hardcover, with dust jacket. Book, English text; Hardcover (with dust jacket); 17 x 28.5 cm; 1,065 Kg; 320 pages with black and white and colour illustrations throughout.; Used with minor signs of wear. The dust jacket shows some scuffs on the front, spine and rear cover. Interior as new.; Since Chinese and Japanese luxuries were first introduced into Europe by the East India companies in the 16th century, they have remained a constant source of fascination and inspiration to antique lovers worldwide. Over the last decade, Far Eastern antiques have become even more popular and accessible in the West due to the increasingly global nature of the antiques trade. Today there is a vast range of wares available with something to suit every taste and pocket and Miller's Chinese & Japanese Antiques Buyer's Guide explores them all. This is the only guide available that provides a much-needed reference to identifying and valuing antiques from the Far East for both the newcomer and more experienced collector. Over 3,500 items of popular Chinese and Japanese antiques such as blue and white gingers jars, richly carved lacquer boxes and jade jewellery are illustrated and described, with over 800 colour photographs, each with and up-to date price guide. The book is divided by type of ware (e.g. furniture, ceramics, metalware) and then subdivided by country for ease of reference. Each section contains information boxes with practical guidance on collecting each subject, what to be aware of when starting out, how to spot fakes, and hints on how to avoid making expensive mistakes. Very Good/Dust Jacket Included.

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Book number: 555B

Catalogue: Asian Art

Keywords: 1840001275 china,japan,chinese antiques,japanese antiques

PHILLIPS, HERBERT P.

Thai Peasant Personality: The Patterning of Interpersonal Behavior in the Village of Bang Chan

University of California Press. 1974, 1st Edition. Hardcover, with dust jacket. Book, English text, Hardcover, 15.8 x 23.4 cm, 0.507 Kg; 231 pages with no illustrations.; Standard book number 520-01008-6.; Used with minor signs of wear on the dust jacket and interior. The dust jacket is now protected with a clearcover.; Readers interested in the psychology of non-western peoples will find this volume provocative in both descriptive and theoretical detail. The first book-length study of Siamese psychological life, it describes the members of an Asian peasant community whose dominant personality traits are aimed at the maintenance of their individuality, privacy, and sense of self-regard. In addition, it offers suggestions for handling many of the theoretical and technical problems crucial to cross-cultural personality research. Basing his research on two years of field work in the Central Plain community of Bang Chan, Mr.Phillips offers a systematic analysis and comparison of two kinds of data: observations of the villagers, overt behaviour in workaday social encounters, and their subjective responses to a special psychological test. Many readers will find particular value in his discussion of the design, translation, and implementation of psychological research methods in non-Western cultures. The author analyses the central role of affability and play in the villager's daily contacts, the use of politeness as a "social cosmetic" and the implications of this cosmetic for the inner lives of the Thai. He examines the villager's readiness to become involved with others in the first place, and the sense of linkage that ties them together over time. He demonstrates how the individualistic tendencies of the Thai intrude of interpersonal relationships and how in the village of Bang Chan all social interaction is set within framework of cosmic unpredictability, with human volition only one of several indeterminate and uncontrollable factors in life. This "loosely structured" system of social relationships is seen to have its roots in early childhood, with strong support from both Hinayana Buddhist doctrine and the sociologically simple and undifferentiated nature of Bang Chan society. In presenting the psychological test results, the author examines the villager's attitudes toward authority, dependency, and aggression, their anxieties and reactions to crises, and their dominant drives and wishes. These various issues are linked to the theoretical problem of "conformity" and to the basic human need for privacy and psychological isolation. Fine/Dust Jacket Included.

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Book number: 791B

Catalogue: Asian History

Keywords: village of bang chan,thai personality,thai culture

PIERSON, STACEY

Chinese Ceramics: A Design History

V&A Publishing, London. 2013, 5th or later Edition. (ISBN: 9781851775767). Hardcover, with dust jacket. Book, English text; Hardcover (with dust jacket); 144 pages; 200 colour illustrations; 22.5 x 28 cm; 0,9 kg; Used book with minor signs of wear on the front, spine and back cover. Interior as new, apart some minor image blurring in some pages. The dust jacket is now protected with a clearcover.; This book establishes a new and accessible approach to thinking about these globally significant objects, drawing on objects from the Victoria and Albert Museum's world famous collection, including many previously unpublished pieces. Chinese ceramics are among the most widely admired and collected ceramics in the world. From elegant Song celadons to decorative Ming vases and colourful Qing famille rose, ceramics produced in China have influenced taste and daily life globally. They are set apart from other world ceramic traditions by their remarkably long history of continuous production, consumption and appreciation and their exceptionally high quality. Because they were widely traded and admired, Chinese ceramics have also had an impact on numerous aspects of global cultural activity, from dining to drinking, decoration to architecture. Ceramics were among the first Chinese objects acquired by the V&A. From 1854, the museum purchased and received as gifts and bequests more than 8,000 examples of all different types. This comprehensive collection forms the focus of this new survey of the subject. Chinese Ceramics offers a design in history of these fascinating objects, emphasizing their origins as designed objects and their related production, consumption and role in trade and transfer. The V&A is also unusual in collecting Republican period pottery and propaganda ware, now emerging as new collecting categories, illustrated and discussed here for the first time. Very Good/Dust Jacket Included.

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Book number: 876B

Catalogue: Collections and Exhibitions

Keywords: 9781851775767 chinese ceramics,chinese porcelain,ceramics,porcelain,china,ming,qing,production,aesthetics,republican period potterry and propaganga ware Chinese Ceramics Chinese Art

PIERSON, STACEY

Illustrated Catalogue of Underglaze Blue and Copper Red Decorated Porcelains in the Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art (Section 3, Revised Edition)

School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. 2004. (ISBN: 0728603608). Soft cover. Book, English text.; Paperback.; 19 x 24.5 cm; 0.4 kg; 119 pages with mainly black and white and a few colour illustrations,; Used with signs of wear, namely a small tear on the rear. Overall in good condition.; "The original text for this section of the Catalogue was prepared by Margaret Medley (1918-2000) when she was the second Curator of the Foundation. Her original text was for many years the standard reference on the subject of blue and white porcelain. This text was later revised in 1976, after Sir Percival's death and after some duplicate pieces were sold to help support the activities of the Foundation. Much has therefore changed in the field of Chinese ceramics and at the Foundation since the publication of the early editions of this Section and a new Introduction has been included in this Revised Edition." excerpt from the preface by Stacey Pierson, April 2004. Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 597B

Catalogue: Collections and Exhibitions

Keywords: 0728603608 china,porcelain,ceramics Chinese Ceramics Chinese Art

PINTO, MARIA HELENA MENDES

Biombos Namban

Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga. 1986, 1st Edition. Soft cover. Book, Portuguese text; Paperback (stapled); 15.5 x 23 cm; 0.047 Kg; 20 pages of text, focusing on Namban Screens. Fine/No Jacket.

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Book number: 855B

Catalogue: Collections and Exhibitions

Keywords: namban,art,japan,portugal,museu nacional de arte antiga

PINTO, MARIA HELENA MENDES

Os Móveis E O Seu Tempo: Mobiliário Português Do Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga Séculos XV-XIX

Instituto Português do Património Cultural, Portugal. 1987, 1st Edition. Soft cover. Book, Portuguese text.; Paperback.; 23 x 21 cm.; 0.42 Kg; 116 pages with black and white illustrations.; As new with signs of shelf wear.; Catalogue from the portuguese furniture collection from the Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga, in Lisbon. As New/No Jacket.

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Book number: 685B

Catalogue: Collections and Exhibitions

Keywords: furniture,portugal,portuguese furniture,mobiliario portugues

PINTO, MARIA HELENA MENDES

Os Móveis E O Seu Tempo: Mobiliário Português Do Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga Séculos XV-XIX

Instituto Português do Património Cultural, Portugal. 1987. Soft cover. Book, Portuguese text.; Paperback; 23 x 21 cm; 0.4 Kg; 116 pages with black and white illustrations.; Used as new, with minor handling signs.; This publication focuses on Portuguese furniture from the XV to the XIX century from the collection of Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga in Portugal. As New/No Jacket.

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Book number: 852B

Catalogue: Collections and Exhibitions

Keywords: furniture,portugal,museu nacional de arte antiga

CESANA, LAURA (AUTHOR); ROSA, ANTÓNIO RAMOS (POEM); AND TEXTS BY ART CRITICS: AZEVEDO, FERNANDO DE; PERNES, FERNANDO AND FREITAS, LIMA DE.

Vestigios Hebraicos Em Portugal - Viagem de Uma Pintora; Jewish Vestiges in Portugal - Travels of a Painter

Laura Cesana, Lisboa. 1998, 2nd Edition. (ISBN: 9789729737008). Hardcover. Book, English and Portuguese text; Hardcover; 23.6 x 32 cm; 1.152 Kg; 160 pages with 116 colored images of places and paintings.; Used book with minor signs of wear, namely a small bump on the top of the back cover.; This book concerns a project from the painter Laura Cesana regarding the Jewish influence on western civilization, precisely in Portugal. The author research and her drawings, paintings and engravings are included in the publication.; "The book also opens doors to Jewish landmarks in a way not found in the meager guidebooks that tourists usually resort to when they visit Portugal. The Cesana book is written in both Portuguese and English on facing pages. It also has a rich supplement of notes. The text, the photographs of places, objects and her art work are a very sensitive account of a five year search." excerpt from the review by KATHLEEN TELTSCH (retired journalist of "The New York Times"); "The artist Laura Cesana presents a rare depiction of the heritage of Portuguese Jewry through history, culture, and art (..) She also remembered to include brief depictions of Portuguese Jewish settlements in Brazil, Amsterdam, and New York.(.) Laura Cesana is unique in that she commemorated little-known segments of Sephardic Portuguese Jewry not only through historical and ethnographic notations, but via original paintings. Her Italian and United States background add a new perspective to viewing Portuguese Jewry.(.) Cesana combines traditional still-life motifs of fruit and Jewish table settings with modernistic artistic forms - cubes, collages, overlapping, streaking, tattering, shadows, and smattering. It is thought-provoking, informative, but yet equally removed, hidden, and discrete. (.) The book should be a part of anyone's library who takes an interest in Portuguese Jewry." excerpt from the review by YITZCHAK KEREM (editor of "Sapharad"). Very Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 194ABE

Catalogue: Generic Books

Keywords: 9789729737008 PORTUGAL,JEWS,ART,PORTUGUESE JEWRY

POLFER, MICHEL; ALVES, PAULA; PIETRUK, FABIENNE; CARDOSO, ANDREA (EDITORS)

Portugal: Drawing the World (English Edition)

Musée National d'Histoire et d'Art du Luxembourg, Luxembourg. 2017, 1st Edition. (ISBN: 9782879854373). Hardcover. Book, English text; Hardcover (without dust jacket); 27.5 x 30 cm; 0,789 kg; 132 pages with colour illustrations throughout.; Catalogue from the exhibition held at the Musée national d'histoire et d'art (MNHA, Luxembourg), from April 28 to October 15, 2017. This exhibition seeks to recount the long and fascinating journey of this almost nine century old country, still emerging from a process of transculturality, together with the history of the paths that led the Portuguese to the four continents. These feats are illustrated through its most eloquent legacy: the artistic heritage created between the fading Middle Ages and the dawn of Contemporaneity, bearing witness to the culture of a people and the unique process of cultures meeting. Portugal - Drawing the world, an exhibition composed by extraordinary loans from the Museu nacional de arte antiga (MNAA, Lisbon), also other cultural institutes of Portugal. New/No Jacket.

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Book number: 456B

Catalogue: Collections and Exhibitions

Keywords: 9782879854373 africa,india,history,portugal,malacca,china,japan,brazil

POLFER, MICHEL; ALVES, PAULA; PIETRUK, FABIENNE; CARDOSO, ANDREA (EDITORS)

Portugal: Drawing the World (Portuguese Edition)

Musée National d'Histoire et d'Art du Luxembourg, Luxembourg. 2017, 1st Edition. (ISBN: 9782879854373). Hardcover. Book, Portuguese text; Hardcover (without dust jacket); 27.5 x 30 cm; 0,789 kg; 132 pages with colour illustrations throughout.; Catalogue from the exhibition at the Musée national d'histoire et d'art (MNHA, Luxembourg), from April 28 to October 15, 2017. This exhibition seeks to recount the long and fascinating journey of this almost nine century old country, still emerging from a process of transculturality, together with the history of the paths that led the Portuguese to the four continents. These feats are illustrated through its most eloquent legacy: the artistic heritage created between the fading Middle Ages and the dawn of Contemporaneity, bearing witness to the culture of a people and the unique process of cultures meeting. Portugal - Drawing the world, an exhibition composed by extraordinary loans from the Museu nacional de arte antiga (MNAA, Lisbon), also other cultural institutes of Portugal. New/No Jacket.

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Book number: 457B

Catalogue: Collections and Exhibitions

Keywords: 9782879854373 africa,india,history,portugal,malacca,china,japan,brazil,exhibition

POPE, JOHN ALEXANDER

Chinese Porcelains from the Ardebil Shrine

Sotheby Parke Bernet Publications by Philip Wilson Publishers Ltd, London. 1981, 2nd Edition. (ISBN: 0856670979). Hardcover, with dust jacket. Book, English text.; Hardcover (with dust jacket); 22.5 x 29 cm; 2.084 Kg; 194 pages plus appendix with 142 black and white plates.; Used with wear marks on the dust jacket, which is slightly faded on spine and the right side of the front cover. The interior is as new except for a previous owner stamp on the front free endpaper.; The collection of early Chinese porcelain brought together by Shah Abbas the Great of Persia and piously presented in 1611 to the dynastic shrine at Ardebil is among the finest that have survived. Now rehoused in the Archaeological Museum, Teheran, it is rich in blue-and-white painted wares of the Yuan and Ming dating from the fourteenth to sixteenth centuries, and also includes monochrome-glazed and polychrome-enamelled wares and a good group of Lung-ch'uan celadon. This study by John Pope, the celebrated authority and former Director of the Freer Gallery in Washington, was first published by the gallery in 1956, and was soon acknoledge as a classic. In it Dr Pope not only provides a lavishly-illustrated survey of the collection with a full account of its formation and fortunes, but also examines in detail the chief problems confronting the historian of Ming porcelain as a whole. While others have pressed forward with that task his meticulous study of this unique collection still remains essential reading. The new edition incorporates additional footnotes by the author and an extended bibliography. Very Good/Dust Jacket Included.

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Book number: 514B

Catalogue: Collections and Exhibitions

Keywords: 0856670979 china,chinese porcelain,chinese ceramics,iran,ming porcelain,non-chinese marks,blue and white,white wares,polychrome wares,monochrome wares,celadons Chinese Ceramics Chinese Art

POPE, JOHN A.; BRUNET, MARCELLE

The Frick Collection: An Illustrated Catalogue - Volume VII Porcelains, Oriental and French

Frick Collection, New York. 1974, 1st Edition. (ISBN: 0691038112). Hardcover, with dust jacket. Book, English text; Hardcover (with dust jacket); 21 x 27 cm; 2 Kg; 359 pages with black and white illustrations.; Used with signs of wear. Interior in very good condition. The dust jacket is now protected with a clearcover.; Oriental and French porcelains and pottery are published together in this latest addition to the projected nine-volume complete Catalogue of the Frick Collection. Eighty-five entries devoted to individual pieces, pairs, and groups provide an illuminating survey of the various types of French and Oriental porcelains included in this extraordinary collection. Each section of the Catalogue is preceded by a general introduction which traces the historical techniques. The Oriental porcelains in the Frick Collection date from the Ming and Ch'ing dynasties and embrace a range of types including blue-and-white, famille verte, famille noire, and famille rose. The French pieces include remarkable examples of Vincennes and Sèvres soft-paste porcelains of the eighteenth century, as well as a rare sixteenth-century ewer of Saint-Porchaire earthenware. Each entry is accompanied by one or more black-and-white gravure plates, including details, and by reproductions of painted and incised marks. Fifteen color plates in gravure reproduce outstanding pieces, and two show room views with porcelains installed at the Frick Collection. Good/Dust Jacket Included.

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Book number: 743B

Catalogue: Collections and Exhibitions

Keywords: 0691038112 porcelains,ceramics,chinese ceramics,european ceramics,ming dynasty,ch'ing dynasty Chinese Ceramics European Ceramics

POPE, JOHN ALEXANDER; KOYAMA, FUJIO (EDITORS)

Oriental Ceramics: The World's Great Collections (Complete 12 Volumes)

Kodansha International Ltd, Tokyo. 1980. Hardcover. Book, English text; Hardcover (cloth without dust jacket - as issued. In splicase.); Used books. The 11 volume set is in good condition with minor scuffs and signs of wear in the slipcases and hardcover cloths. The spines are slightly faded as usual (volume 11 - Metropolitan Museum is slightly more faded then the other volumes). Volume 5 (British Museum) and volume 9 (Freer Gallery of Art) show minor wear marks on the top of the slipcase. Far Eastern Ceramics is in very good condition showing minor signs of shelf wear, namely some marks on the front and back cover. The ribbon bookmark is slightly scuffed on the bottom. The interior of all volumes is as new.; A milestone in international ceramic documentation, this series is a brilliant presentation of the oriental ceramics collections of the world's major museums. Originally published by Kodansha in 1975 as a limited deluxe 12 volume set, this critically acclaimed and now scarce masterpiece has been issued in a standard edition with no compromise in the quality of scholarship or production. Each volume contains approximately 200 pages, with an average of 100 colour plates and 300 black-and-white plates. Each is handsomely cloth-bound with an attractive slipcase. This 1980-1982 standard edition set consists of 11 volumes and we added the publication Far Eastern Ceramics in the Victoria and Albert Museum published in 1980 (ISBN 0-85667-076-6) (174 pages; 2.199 kg; 27.2 x 37.4) which is a reprint of the 1975 edition (hence not bound equally as the set) in order to complete the original 12 volumes. The overall composion of the series is as follows: 60% China, 15% Japan, 15% Korea and Southeast Asia, and 10% Persia.; The 11 volumes are: Volume 1: Tokyo National Museum (ISBN 0-87011-440-9) (191 pages; 3.055 kg); Volume 2: National Museum of Korea (ISBN 0-87011-441-7) (184 pages; 3.010 kg); Volume 3: Museum Pusat, Jakarta (ISBN 0-87011-442-5) (175 pages; 2.928 kg); Volume 4: Iran Bastan Museum, Teheran (ISBN 0-87011-443-3) (166 pages; 2.780 kg); Volume 5: The British Museum, London (ISBN 0-87011-444-1) (171 pages; 2.880 kg); Volume 6: Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art, London (ISBN 0-87011-445-X) (174 pages; 2.927 kg); Volume 7: Musee Guimet, Paris (ISBN 0-87011-446-8) (181 pages; 2.984 kg); Volume 8: Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities, Stockholm (ISBN 0-87011-447-6) (166 pages; 2.801 kg); Volume 9: The Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. (ISBN 0-87011-448-4) (175 pages; 2.888 kg); Volume 10: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (ISBN 0-87011-449-2) (182 pages; 2.957 kg); Volume 11: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (ISBN 0-87011-450-6) (179 pages; 2.966 kg). The measures of each of the 11 volumes is 27 x 38 cm. Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 506B

Catalogue: Collections and Exhibitions

Keywords: reference,ceramics,porcelain,china,museums,john alexander pope,chinese porcelain,collections and exhibitions Chinese Ceramics Asian Art

PRICE, BERNARD; NEGUS, ARTHUR (FOREWORD AND CONSULTANT EDITIOR)

The Arthur Negus Guide to English Pottery and Porcelain

The Hamlyn Publishing Group Limited, Middlesex, England. 1978, 1st Edition. (ISBN: 0600371654). Hardcover, with dust jacket. Book, English text; Hardcover (with dust jacket); 15 x 22.5 cm; 0.7 Kg; 176 pages with illustrations throughout; Used book with minor signs of wear. The dust jacket is now protected with a permanent clearcover.; This book is designed to be of practical assistance to the collector, with the needs of the new enthusiasm particularly in mind. Bernard Price explains the basic terms that anyone interested in the subject needs to know. The differences between pottery and porcelain are clearly outlined, as are the various processes that go to making the finished object. The development of the different styles in English ceramics is charted, as well as the most important foreign influences, in particular that of the Orient. The main English potteries and porcelain factories are described, together with their characteristic feature. This information is seldom so readily accessible in one book and will be of immense help to both the amateur and the more knowledgeable collector. The author also chronicles the life and work of Josiah Wedgwood, the man responsible for making English ceramics competitive with such great European factories as Meissen and Sèvres, and who is, of course, still a household name. Bernard Price rightly believes that products of the neneteenth century have for too long been despised and neglected. He therefore discusses a number of the most usual items from this period, such as pot lids and transfer printed ware. The text is supplemented by over a hundred black-and-white pictures as well as twenty-four in colour. Line drawings complement these illustrations, showing the reader what he must look for when identifying a piece: marks, handle-shapes, foot-rims, bases and so on. With this handbook anyone interested in pottery and porcelain is well-equipped to extend their knowledge and enjoyment of the subject. Very Good/Dust Jacket Included.

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Book number: 586B

Catalogue: European Ceramics

Keywords: 0600371654 porcelain,english,history

QIUYU, YU (INTRODUCTION)

'the Homecoming of Chen Yifei' Retrospective Exhibition

Marlborough Fine Art (London) Ltd. 1996, 1st Edition. (ISBN: 0900955619). Hardcover. Book, English and Chinese text; Hardcover (colour illustration boards without dust jacket - as issued); 25.9 x 30.6 cm, 1.333 Kg; 180 pages with various colour illustrations; Used book with some shelf wear, and some markings on the back cover, namely a small scuff. Protected with a clearcover; Born in Ningbo, Zhejiang province, Mr. Chen Yifei was educated and began his oil painting career in Shangai. Having left for the United States in 1980 to further his study of fine art, he has focused his artistic creativity on Chinese subjects. After years of diligent and unremitting hard work, he has attained great success and has become a well-known Chinese painter at home and abroad. The most outstanding characteristics of Chen Yifei’ painting is the tranquility and stillness. His realistic painting style is infused with traditional Chinese aesthetics. In depicting the landscapes, rivers and lakes of southern China, or in portraying a beautiful female figure with vivid expression, the artist’ pursuit is clearly indicated: “To imbue the painting with a Chinese spirit by using western painting techniques”. This exhibition, the first show of Mr. Chen Yifei’ paintings in his home town, comprises a collection of his major works representing different periods of his painting career, from which we can appreciate the full character of his painting. This is of great significance for any contemporary study of the tradition of Chinese oil painting. Good.

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Book number: ABE34

Catalogue: Asian Art

Keywords: 0900955619 chen yifei,painting,china,shanghai museum,china national museum of fine arts Chinese Art