Author: Ida Ely RubinPublisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN: 0870992759
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
The Guennol Collection
Author: Ida Ely RubinPublisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN: 0870992759
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
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.
Illustrated Catalogue of an Important Collection of Ancient Chinese Art Treasures Comprising Direct Importations and Rare Specimens from the J. Pierpont Morgan and Other Famous Collections
Author: Kano OshimaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art, Chinese
Languages : en
Pages : 202
Book Description
The Herzman Collection
Author: Stephen LittlePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art, Chinese
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
As a young man with an adventurous spirit and not much else, I had the opportunity to start a business in Swatow, on the south China coast. That bustling city is not on the map anymore; the name has been changed to Shantou. The late 1930s was not exactly the perfect time to start this enterprise. The Japanese were moving down along the China coast after their Manchurian takeover, and war was looming in Europe. Obviously, there was a notable lack of recreational opportunities for a lonesome Westerner. Having little else to do with my spare time, one day I wandered into an antique shop and browsed. My eye was caught by a blue-and-white porcelain plate and bowl. The owner identified them as 16th century "Swatow" ware. These were not Imperial porcelains by any means, but I liked them and bought them. That was the way it so innocently started.--S. Herzman
"Ten Thousand Chinese Things." Descriptive Catalogue of the Chinese Collection Now Exhibiting at St. George's Place, Hyde Park Corner, with Condensed Accounts of the Genius, Government, History, Literature, Agriculture, Arts, Trade, Manners, Customs and Social Life of the People of the Celestial Empire
Author: William B. LangdonDescriptive Catalogue of the Chinese Collection, Now Exhibiting at St. George's Place, Hyde Park Corner
Author: William B. LangdonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art, Chinese
Languages : en
Pages : 182
Book Description
Collecting and Displaying China's “Summer Palace” in the West
Author: Louise TythacottPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 135162489X
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 345
Book Description
In October 1860, at the culmination of the Second Opium War, British and French troops looted and destroyed one of the most important palace complexes in imperial China—the Yuanmingyuan. Known in the West as the "Summer Palace," this site consisted of thousands of buildings housing a vast art collection. It is estimated that over a million objects may have been taken from the palaces in the Yuanmingyuan—and many of these are now scattered around the world, in private collections and public museums. With contributions from leading specialists, this is the first book to focus on the collecting and display of "Summer Palace" material over the past 150 years in museums in Britain and France. It examines the way museums placed their own cultural, political and aesthetic concerns upon Yuanmingyuan material, and how displays—especially those at the Royal Engineers Museum in Kent, the National Museum of Scotland and the Musée Chinois at the Château of Fontainebleau—tell us more about European representations and images of China, than they do about the Yuanmingyuan itself.
Heritage Decorative Arts Dallas Signature Auction Catalog #631
Author: Ivy PressPublisher: Heritage Capital Corporation
ISBN: 9781599670454
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 202
Book Description
Animal Motifs in Asian Art
Author: Katherine M. BallPublisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486147304
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
Highly readable authoritative reference, rich with sidelights from literature and legend, explains animal symbolism in art of the Far East. The 673 black-and-white illustrations depict dragons, tigers, bats, butterflies, elephants, and other creatures.
A Descriptive Catalogue of the Chinese Collection, Now Exhibiting at St. George's Place, Hyde Park Corner, London
Author: William B. LangdonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art objects, Chinese
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description