Chinese Ivories From The

Kwan, Simon & Peter Y. K. Lam & Yang Boda. Chinese Ivories from the Kwan Collection. Art Media Resources, Ltd., 1990. ; fester Einband / hard cover
9627101168, Flawless copy, brand new, pristine, never opened -- Text in Chinese and English. Description: "This well-illustrated presentation of 200 figure carvings, ornaments and utilitarian objects from a distinguished private collection surveys the historical and artistic evolution of Chinese ivory carving from the 12th century B. C. To the early 20th century. Three essays discuss ancient works in ivory and bone, summarize major archaeological finds from the Shang to the Yuan dynasty, and trace the development of ivory carving in the Ming and Qing dynasties."
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J. Lerner, L. Russell-Smith (eds.): The Journal of Inner Asian Art and Archaeology Journal of Inner Asian Art and Archaeology 2008, Brepols Verlag ISBN: 2503528045
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The Journal of Inner Asian Art and Archaeology Journal of Inner Asian Art and Archaeology 2008 J. Lerner, L. Russell-Smith (eds.) 231 p., 198 b/w ill.+111 colour ill., 215 x 280 mm, 2009, Paperback ISBN 978-2-503-52804-5, EUR 51.00 Available English Text: Table of Contents: Philip Denwood, The Tibetans in the West, Part I - Geza Fehervari, The Lions of Ghazni - Imre Galambos, The Third Otani Expedition at Dunhuang. Acquisition of the Japanese Collection of Dunhuang Manuscripts - Sascha Priewe, The 'Stein Loan Collection': Ceramics and Buddhist Art from the Silk Roads in the Victoria and Albert Museum - Elizabeth Rosen Stone, Some Begram Ivories and the South Indian Narrative Tradition: New Evidence The Kingdom of Khotan to AD 1000: A Meeting of Cultures Ursula Sims-Williams, Introduction Duan Qing, Bisa- and Halaa- in a New Chinese-Khotanese Bilingual Document - Hiroshi Kumamoto, A St. Petersburg Bilingual Document and Problems of the Chronology of Khotan - Mauro Maggi and Anna Filigenzi, Pelliot tibetain 2222: a Dunhuang Painting with a Khotanese Inscription - Giuliana Martini, Tracing the sources of the Bookf of Zambasta: the Case of the Yaksa Painter Smile and the Ratnakuta - Rong Xinjiang and Wen Xin, Newly Discovered Chinese-Khotanese Bilingual Tallies - Prods Oktor Skjaervö, The End of Eighth-Century Khotan in Its Texts - Tsuguhito Takeuchi, Tshar, srang, and tshan: Administrative Units in Tibetan-ruled Khotan - Zhang Guangda and Rong Xinjiang, On the Dating of Khotanese Documents from the Area of Khotan - Zhang Yuzhong, Qu Tao and Liu Guorui, A Newly Discovered Buddhist Temple and Wall Paintings at Dandan-Uiliq in Xinjiang - Zhao Feng and Wang Le, Textiles and Clothing Excavated from the Tombs of Buzak in Khotan BOOK REVIEWS Elena E. Kuz'mina, The Origin of the Indo-Iranians and E. E. Kuzmina, The Prehistory of the Silk Road (Burzine Waghmar) Prudence O. Harper, In Search of a Cultural Identity: Monuments and Artifacts of the Sasanian Near East, 3rd to 7th Century A.D. (St. John Simpson) LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS Buch

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Johnston, William R. William and Henry Walters: The Reticent Collectors, Baltimore, MD Johns Hopkins University Press in association with the Walters Art Gallery 1999 ; fester Einband / hard cover; Schutzumschlag / dust cover ISBN: 0801860407
0801860407 Fine

Cloth, gilt, xvi, 309 pp., illus. (some col.), bib. notes, index; 24 cm. AS NEW. Dust jacket protected in a mylar book cover. "In the mid-nineteenth century, Baltimore businessman William Thompson Walters began to patronize the artists of Maryland. Today, the museum that bears his name -- Baltimore's Walters Art Gallery -- excels in fields as diverse as Egyptian bronzes, Byzantine silver, illuminated manuscripts, medieval carved ivories, early Renaissance paintings, Sevres porcelains, Islamic metalwork, and Chinese ceramics. Surprisingly, the story of how William Walters and his son Henry created one of the finest privately assembled museums in the United States has not been told. With this new book, William Johnston, the Walters's curator of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century art, restores William and Henry Walters to their rightful place among America's great art collectors. Drawing upon the knowledge of the early museum staff and gathering valuable information from the few other available sources, Johnston has painstakingly recreated the life and world of the Walterses. Though Henry Walters moved easily in Baltimore and New York social circles, Johnston explains, he kept much to himself and generally purchased art away from the public's eye. Despite the Walterses' reticence, they had a significant influence on the development of American tastes and museums -- William in his role as the first chairman of the Committee on Works of Art for the Corcoran Gallery in Washington, D.C., and Henry as the second vice-president of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Their personal collection differs from those of other, more familiar collectors, such as J. P. Morgan and Henry Clay Frick, in that Henry Walters intended from the very first that the collection form a museum to serve the public. When the museum first opened its doors in 1934, Johnston relates, many visitors were surprised by the collection's size and by its comprehensive representation of the history of art from the third millennium b.c. to the early twentieth century. Richly illustrated with black-and-white photographs and sixteen pages of full color, this book will fascinate anyone interested in Baltimore history, the history of museums and art collecting in America, and the art and culture of nineteenth-century America. / William R. Johnston is associate director and curator of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century art at the Walters Art Gallery." - Publisher. Fine Hard Cover 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall

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Prodan, Mario: CHINESE ART : An Introduction, New York, NY Pantheon Books 1958 ; fester Einband / hard cover; 1. Ed. ISBN: B000OKUEIO
B000OKUEIO Collectible - Very Good

Text/BRAND NEW. Blue embossed linen boards w/gilt spine lettering/NF. DJ/None. Upper text edge dyed blue. PO label to front cover verso, book shop label to rear cover verso. Frontispiece: Jade, Chien Lung period. A survey of Chinese art forms from pottery and bronzes of the Shang and Yin dynasties (?1766 - 1122? BC) through the Ch'ing Dynasty (1644 - 1912). 10 chapters: 1, The Chinese; 2, Origin & History; 3, The Bronzes; 4, Earthenware & Porcelain; 5, Sculpture; 6, Painting; 7, The Ivories, 8, Jade; 9. Lacquer; and 10, Fabrics, Silver, Jewels. First Edition, First Thus No Jacket Hard Cover First Edition, First Thus; First Edition, First Thus

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