Author: James Tregaskis (Firm)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 98
Book Description
The Caxton Head Catalogue
Author: James Tregaskis (Firm)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 98
Book Description
Fine Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art
Author: Sotheby's (Firm)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art, Chinese
Languages : en
Pages : 622
Book Description
Catalogues of Sale
Author: Sotheby & Co. (London, England)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
The Athenaeum
Author: Catalogue of the Harvard University Fine Arts Library, the Fogg Art Museum
Author: Harvard University. Fine Arts LibraryPublisher: Macmillan Reference USA
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 700
Book Description
The Burlington Magazine for Connoisseurs
Author: Burlington Magazine for Connoisseurs
Author: Chinese Art
Author: Patricia Bjaaland WelchPublisher: Tuttle Publishing
ISBN: 1462906893
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
With over 630 striking color photos and illustrations, this Chinese art guide focuses on the rich tapestry of symbolism which makes up the basis of traditional Chinese art. Chinese Art: A Guide to Motifs and Visual Imagery includes detailed commentary and historical background information for the images that continuously reappear in the arts of China, including specific plants and animals, religious beings, mortals and inanimate objects. The book thoroughly illuminates the origins, common usages and diverse applications of popular Chinese symbols in a tone that is both engaging and authoritative. Chinese Art: A Guide to Motifs and Visual Imagery is an essential reference for collectors, museum-goers, guides, students and anyone else with a serious interest in the culture and history of China.
Athenaeum
Author: Jade
Author: Roger KevernePublisher: Springer
ISBN: 1461539226
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 377
Book Description
FOREWORD RECUMBENT HORSE Chinese, Ming Dynasty. 1 Length: 3 /2 in (9 em). The formation of the head with its marked convexity of outline resembles that of one depicted on a mural painting in a Northern Song tomb, discovered at Pai-Sha in Honan. Despite its size, this horse has a strong sculptural quality. Worked from pale green jade with light brown markings. t has been said that a single daily issue of a newspaper effort to survey the jade scene worldwide. These volumes such as The New York Times, Neue Zurcher Zeitung or Le were bigger than was necessary considering the amount of Monde contains more information than someone text included (measuring 24 x 18 inches, 61 x 46 cm, and living in the 17th century would have faced in a lifetime. weighing 110 lb (50 kg) together), and Bishop was not Jade scholarship cannot escape the information explosion interested in wide dissemination of the subject. He printed of our century. Our knowledge on the subject of jade has only 106 copies, none of which was for sale, and then des been radically expanded in two directions, from the past troyed the plates. The copies were sent to important libra and in the present, and a definitive survey bringing together ries, museums and crowned heads around the world. As the latest research from around the world is long overdue.