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	Archaic Corinthian Pottery and The Anaploga Well - Vol. VII Part II - 0876610726 From the Results of Excavations Conducted by The American School of Classical Studies at Athens, this sequel to Corinth Vol. VII Part I "The Geometric and Orientalizing Pottery", by Saul Weinberg, has only come to the authors light in gradual stages. The germ of it may be traced to the their initial attempts to locate the unpublished items listed in Payne's "Necrocorinthia" which were said to be at Corinth. These efforts had brought to their notice so large a body of unpublished pottery from ... $19.50     View Details Add To Cart
	Hare's Fur, Tortoiseshell, and Patridge Feathers - 0916724883 Hare's Fur, Tortoiseshell, and Partridge Feathers is the first catalog of its kind to examine the exquisite Chinese brown and black glazed wares (including those commonly known as Temmoku), tracing their evolution and development from the fifth to the fifteenth century. Illustrated with fine and important pieces from famous museum and private collections, it includes excellent essays and definitive entries by Robert D. Mowry, with contributions on specific historical and technical aspe... $27.50     View Details Add To Cart
	If These Pots Could Talk: Collecting 2,000 Years of British Household Pottery - 158465161X Lively prose and wonderful color photographs portray a veteran s passion for British household pottery. Archaeologist and social historian Ivor Noel Hume brings British history to life through his accessible story about the everyday ceramic objects he and his late wife collected over a 40-year period. If These Pots Could Talk presents "a panoramic view of pottery in Britain and her colonies from the landing of the Romans to the bad intentions of the Germans in 1939." Beginning a... $32.50     View Details Add To Cart
	Legacy of Ming: Ceramic Finds from the Site of the Ming Palace in Nanjing - 962710132X A comprehensive catalog of the ceramic finds from the Nanjing Ming Palace site over the years. More than 200 pieces of shards are illustrated in color, together with detailed descriptive entries and two introductory essays. Contents: Forward by Xu Huping and Mayching Kao Ceramic Finds from the Ming Palace Site in Nanjing with a note on porcelains from early Ming tombs of meritorious officials in Nanjing by Zhang Pusheng Ming Blue and Whites from Yudai River in the Ming Palace Site, Nanjin... $42.00     View Details Add To Cart
	Ming Ceramics in the British Museum - 071411488X Ming pottery and porcelain, dating from China's Renaissance period between the mid fourteenth and mid seventeenth centuries, has influenced the way people serve food and decorate their buildings from Europe to East Africa. In imperial China, ceramics were needed for the daily use of the emperors and their households as well as for the performance of sacred and secular rites. Inscribed vessels were presented to Buddhist, Daoist and Confucian temples, and pottery replicas were required after de... $250.75     View Details Add To Cart
	Porcelain from the Vung Tau Wreck: The Hallstrom Collection - 981045208X Porcelains from the famous Vung Tau cargo, the subject of an auction at Christie's Amsterdam some years ago, is comprehensively discussed by Christiaan Jorg, Head of Research at the Groninger Museum, Groningen, The Netherlands. Illustrated in color and representative of the entire Vung Tau collection, this book explores not only the latest research in the art historical context of the export ware, but also provides an extensive archaeological study. The account of the underwater excavation of... $49.50     View Details Add To Cart
	Southeast Asian Ceramics from the Collection of Margot & Hans Ries - 0903697149 Margot and Hans Ries began collecting Southeast Asian ceramics long before those wares became fashionable. Their collection encompasses Thai and Khmer ceramics, ranging from Neolithic Ban Chiang ceramics and utilitarian, religious and decorative pieces ranging from the 11th to the 15th century. $24.95     View Details Add To Cart
	The Ceramics of South-East Asia: Their Dating and Identification 2nd ed. - 1878529706 This is a reprint of the 1988 second edition of this standard work on Southeast Asian ceramics. Recent progress in original research and discovery can be summarized into four areas of major importance. First, the identification of Guangdong ceramics as the missing link between the wres of China and those of both Vietnam and Kampuchea. Secondly, the unexpected discovery of Burmese glazed ceramis, and finally, new findings from excavations at the Sawakalok kiln site. In this second edition, the... $18.95     View Details Add To Cart
	The Potter's Brush: The Kenzan Style in Japanese Ceramics - 1858941563 Ogata Kenzan (1663-1743) is celebrated as Japan's most inventive creator of ceramic decoration and foremost workshop master. His reputation is a product both of this own time - an eighteenth-century Japanese guidebook noted his work as a "must-buy" - and of the modern age: the esteem which he was held in Japan was ignited in the West as critics, art dealers, and collectors vied for his colorfully painted and inscribed work at the turn of the twentieth century. The fact that it was signed by t... $25.95     View Details Add To Cart
	Vietnamese Ceramics: A Separate Tradition - 1878529226 Vietnamese ceramics exhibit a unique combination of indigenous creativity plus elements derived from other cultures such as China, Cambodia, Champa, and India. Decorative motifs, glaze types, production methods, perhaps even attitudes toward potting, differed distinctly from those of China. Using excellent clay from the Red River Valley--smooth, homogenous, gray-white--the Vietnamese created the most sophisticated ceramics in Southeast Asia. The most definitive study of Vietnamese ceramics t... $97.50     View Details Add To Cart

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