Resultados de búsqueda: Collections and exhibitions from Jorge Welsh Books

Fundação Oriente, Lisboa, 1998 Book. Good. Soft cover. 1st Edition. Portuguese, English and Chinese text; Paperback; 24x 27,8 cm; 1,957 Kg; 331 pages with colour illustrations.; Used with signs of wear on the exterior.; Catalogue from the exhibition held at Fundacao Oriente, Lisbon, Portugal in 1998.; "During its ten years of existence, the Fundacao Oriente has striven to rekindle and intensify the ties which connected us to the Orient and which hold a decisive place in the Portugal's history. Perhaps, it may not even be possible to think about Portuguese history without including the ocean and the Orient. The Porcelain Route exhibition, which the Fundacao Oriente is proud to display and is only possible due to the pieces kindly lent by institutions and collectors, bears witness to the Portuguese presence in the Orient and expresses praise of the oceans that made possible Portugal's dialogue with the world." excerpt from the presentation by Carlos Augusto Pulido Valente… Leer más

National Palace Museum, Taipei County, Taiwan, R.O.C., 1988 Book. Good. Soft cover. 2nd Edition. Chinese and English text and captions.; Paperback; 24.8 x 25.2 cm; 0.983 Kg; 197 pages with colour illustrations.; Used with signs of wear, namely scuffs on the front cover, spine and back cover. Edgeworn. Minor signs of wear in the interior.; Catalogue from an exhibition at the National Palace Museum, Taipei in 1986.; "This exhibit takes the famous ware of K'ang-shi, Yung-cheng and Ch'ien-lung reigns during the flourishing Ch'ing period to be the theme of an exhibit which display the best of the best. In all 171 object are on view. The glazes used on many of these wares followed Sung, Yuan, and Ming formulas. They are so close as to be difficult to tell apart from earlier glazes. On the other hand, there are newly created red glazes, famille rose, and painted enamels glazes which have very distinct and beautiful colors. They are extremely complicated, marvelously, incomparably crafted.… Leer más

Victoria and Albert Museum, Department of Woodwork, London, 1925 Book. Fair. Soft cover. 1st Edition. English text; Paperback; 19 x 25 cm; 0.306 Kg; 36 pages plus 44 pages with black and white plates.; Used with signs of wear, namely on the front cover, spine and back cover. Some of the pages are slightly glued to each other at the bottom left side, however all pages can be opened and seen. Some of the pages are slightly damaged in what looks like an attempt to unglue some of the pages. Good readable copy.; Scarce.; This is the only catalogue of the Victoria and Albert Museum Chinese lacquer collection..

The Oriental Ceramic Society, London, 1971 Book. Good. Soft cover. 2nd Edition. English text; Paperback; 18.2 x 24.5 cm; 0.366 Kg; not paginated with black and white and colour illustrations.; Used book in good condition with minor signs of wear in the cover, spine and back cover. Minor signs of wear in the interior.; Catalogue of an exhibition of The Ceramic Art of China organized by the Arts Council of Great Britain and the Oriental Ceramic Society to commemorate the founding of the Society in 1921, held at the Victoria and Albert Museum from the 9th June to the 25th July 1971. Selection Committee for the Exhibition: Basil Gray, Esq., C.B., C.B.E. (chairman); John Ayers Esq.; Sir Harry Garner, K.B.E., C.B.; Miss Margaret Medley; Lt. Colonel W.B.R. Neave-Hill; Dr Hugh Shire; Professor William Watson.; Exhibition catalogue to celebrate the Jubilee Year of the Oriental Ceramic Society, London limited to Chinese Ceramics, covering the whole field from Neolithic times down to the Ch'ing dynasty. The… Leer más

The Southeast Asian Ceramic Society, Singapore, 1976 Book. Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. English text; Hardcover (with dust jacket); 19.5 x 25.5 cm; 0.646 kg; 194 pages with black and white illustrations.; Used book with signs of wear on the exterior. The interior is in good condition, apart from the rear of the front and back cover that show signs of wear.; 3rd reprint of the 1st edition.; Catalogue from the first annual exhibition at The Southeast Asian Ceramic Society, June-July 1971, focusing on Southeast Asian wares exclusively, i.e. pottery of continental Southeast Asia exclusive of South China and Laos and of peninsular Thailand and Malaysia with Singapore.; "Most of the pots seen on the museum shelves were made either at the Sukhotai or Sawankoloke kilns of Thailand, or at the kilns in the northern part of the old kingdom of Annam (today is part of North Vietnam). The majority of pieces in both these groups belong to either the 14th or 15th centuries. The earliest wares on display, on the… Leer más

Jorge Welsh Books, 2011 Book. New. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Portuguese text; 3 hardcover volumes in slipcase; 1204 pages; 927 colour illustrations, 20 black and white illustrations; 26 x 35.5 cm; 12 kg; The RA Collection of Chinese Ceramics: A Collector's Vision is the most important new reference book on Chinese export porcelain to be published for many years. It provides the first comprehensive study of what is probably the world's best private collection of pieces for the European market and contains new research into the subject of Chinese export porcelain. The author Maria Antónia Pinto de Matos has been researching the RA Collection for 11 years and the result is a work of true scholarship providing the most up to date and complete account of the subject available. The three-volume set of hardcover books includes chapters on earthenware, stoneware and porcelain of the Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties, works with Western shapes and decoration and armorial Chinese export… Leer más

Museo Oriental, Valladolid, Espana, 2006 Book. Very Good. Soft cover. 1st Edition. Spanish text; Paperback; 22.5 x 28 cm; 1.3 Kg; 254 pages with black and white and colour illustrations throughout.; Used book with signs of wear on the front and back cover. Interior in very good condition.; Catalogue from the exhibition "China 1793: La Embajada de Lord Macartney" focusing on the meeting between Britain and China..

Haus Publishing Limited, United Kingdom, 2016 Book. New. Soft cover. 1st Edition. English text; Paperback; 24.3 x 24.5 cm; 0.791 Kg; 144 pages with 160 colour illustrations.; STILL WRAPPED IN PLASTIC: This book examines the 'new orientation of ideas' on Chinese material culture in early 20th century London under the influence of a circle of enthusiasts and scholars, preeminent among which was George Eumorfopoulos (1863-1939), a Greek origin London businessman and collector. These ideas are placed within the context of earlier encounters between China and the West through trade and diplomacy as they unravelled between the 16th century and the late 19th century. The objects discussed form part of the Benaki Museum collection of Chinese art, in its majority donated by Eumorfopoulos between 1929 and 1936; this collection is a rare 'time capsule' of the taste and preoccupations of the pre-World War II period with regards to China. The years between the collapse of the Qing dynasty in 1911… Leer más

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1974 Book. Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. English text; Hardcover (with dust jacket); 22.5 x 28 cm; 0.9 Kg; 134 pages with black and white illustrations.; Used with signs of wear, namely on the dust jacket. Interior in very good condition. The dust jacket is now protected with a clearcover.; At the crest of the long commerce between China and the West in the mid-to late eighteenth century, Chinese porcelain was eagerly acquired by Western rulers, statesmen, leading families, and others alert for the novel. Its primary appeal was that it could be designed to order, and when it came off the trade ships a season or two later, many of the pieces - sometimes entire dinner sets - were decorated with family armorials, images still topical, or designs more or less freely reproduced from drawings or engravings sent to China the year before. Recent interest in China trade porcelain has brought to light significant new examples of this ware. The present study deals with… Leer más

Paradou Writing Ltd., London, 2010 Book. New. Hardcover. English text; Title and captions in English and Chinese; Hardcover (cloth in slipcase); limited edition of 700 copies, 2 volumes, 480 pages with colour illustrations throughout.; 27 x 37 cm; 6 kg; STILL WRAPPED IN PLASTIC.; The Meiyintang collection represents one of the finest private collections of Chinese ceramics ever assembled. Volume Three of the collection catalogue, consisting of two books in a slip case, discusses and illustrates nearly 600 Chinese ceramics from the Neolithic period to the Yuan (1279-1368), many of which are today on display in the Rietberg Museum, Zurich. Volume Four, also consisting of two books in a slip case, covers China's porcelain production from the Yuan to the Qing dynasty (1644-1911) with some 250 entries. This collection is now dispersed. The 1994 publication of Volumes One and Two of the catalogue, which presented earlier acquisitions, is currently out of print..

Arts Orientalis, Singapore, 1979 Book. Good. Hardcover. English text.; Hardcover (with dust jacket); 23 x 30 cm; 1,581 Kg; 312 pages with 294 full colour plates and seven authoritative articles on Chinese celadons and related wares.; Used book with signs of wear. The dust jacket has a tear on the top of the spine. The dust jacket is now protected with a clearcover. Minor signs of wear in the interior, namely some minor wear marks on the rear of the front cover and on front free endpaper.; Compiled by the Southeast Asia Ceramic Society in Singapore, this catalogue was published on the occasion of the exhibition on Chinese celadons and other related wares in Southeast Asia, organised by the SEACS together with the National Museum in Singapore IN 1979. Beginning with an introduction by Lu Yaw, who examines the evolution of the celadon tradition in China from its beginning to the Qing dynasty, the other six articles go on to explore celadons found in Europe, India and Sri Lanka, Brunei and Sarawak, and… Leer más

Princessehof, Leeuwarden, 1990 Book. Good. Soft cover. English and Dutch text.; Paperback; 21 x 20.9 cm; 0.221 Kg; 80 pages with colour illustrations; Used book with signs of wear, namely on the front cover, spine and back cover. Edgeworn. Interior as new.; "The Princessehof collections incorporate two series of Chinese gouaches illustrating the manufacture of porcelains in China. Each series is painted in a distinctive style. There are fourty scenes in all which partly complement one another as far as their content is concerned. The larger series, with twenty-eight scenes, each one sized 28 cm by 30 cm, is the subject of this presentation. It probably dates late 18th century. Originally bought in Canton, it was presented during the 1930' to Nanne Ottema, founder of the Princessehof, by the Vereeniging van Vrienden der Aziatische Kunts, Amsterdam, as a gift. The objective of this publication is to provide factual information for a general public; to narrate in simple words Chinese traditions… Leer más

Lienart edtions, Paris, 2021 Book. New. Hardcover. 1st Edition. English text.; Hardcover (without dust jacket - as issued); 24.5 x 28; 2.8 Kg.; 480 pages with 610 colour illustrations throughout.; The Santos Palace in Lisbon (now the French Embassy in Portugal) contains a hidden treasure: a small square room with a pyramid-shaped, gilted wooden ceiling, to which nearly three hundred Chinese porcelain plates and dishes, mostly blue and white, have been attached. This book is the catalogue raisonné of that unique collection. .

Philip Wilson Publishers Limited, London, 1997 Book. New. Hardcover. 1st Edition. English text; Hardcover (with dust jacket); 22.5 x 29.5 cm, 1.979 Kg; 352 pages with various colour illustrations.; NEW. STILL WRAPPED IN PLASTIC..; The Chinese ceramics in the Rijksmuseum comprise one of the finest but least published collections of Chinese porcelain in the world. The Dutch were the first and most successful of the Western nations to develop trading links with China. This book is the first scholarly publication of the Rijksmuseum's magnificent collection of Ming and Qing seventeenth and eighteen-century wares exported to Holland. The 400 pieces included, many published here for the first time, are described and illustrated in full colour. These include Kraak and Transitional porcelains, a wide selection of Kangxi underglaze blue and polychrome wares, famille rose and other eighteen-century enamelled wares, Chine de commande, blanc de Chine and Yixing wares. In addition there is a selection of… Leer más

Philip Wilson Publishers, London for Sotheby's Publications, 1986 Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. English text.; Hardcover (with dust jacket in slipcase).; 28 x 39 cm; 17 Kg.; 1381 pages with 5,000 black-and-white and colour illustrations, including 200 large-size colour plates.; 3 volumes comprising: Volume 1-Yuan and Ming Dynasty, Celadon Wares; Volume 2-Yuan and Ming Dynasty Porcelains; Volume 3-Qing Dynasty Porcelains.; Used books with signs of wear on the slipcases, dust jackets and on the interior.; OUT OF PRINT SCARCE REFERENCE CATALOGUE. LIMITED EDITION OF 1500 COPIES OF WHICH THIS IS NUMBER 819.; The Topkapi Saray Museum collection of Chinese Ceramics is one of the largest and most important in the whole world, yet comparatively little of it has ever been published. The wares assembled here present a continuous review of porcelains made for export from the 13th century to the 19th century which, in its range of styles and designs, is without equal in any other surviving… Leer más

Chinese Snuff-Bottles Magazine. Good. Soft cover. English text; Paperback; 15,7 x 22,9 cm; 0,202 Kg; 76 pages with black and white and colour illustrations; Used with signs of wear, namely on the exterior which has some scuffs throughout. Edgwear. Interior in very good condition.; SPECIAL EDITION: Devoted to the collection of Mr ad Mrs Gerry P. MAck.; Contents: The Mr & Mrs Gerry P. Mack Collection (Snuff Bottles of Jade and other Hardstones; Snuff Bottles of Organic Materials; Snuff Bottles of Metal, Enamel and Embellished Hardstone; Snuff Bottles of Porcelain and Glass and Interior Painted Snuff-Bottles), Signatures and Seals, Photographs of Marks..

Philip Wilson Publishers Limited, London/Instituto Português de Museus, Lisbon, 1996 Book. New. Soft cover. 1st Edition. English text; Paperback; 23.7 x 28.2 cm; 1.47 Kg; 287 pages with colour illustrations throughout.; New book. May show signs of shelf wear.; The Museum of Anastácio Gonçalves is acknowledged as containing one of the world's most important collections of Chinese porcelain. In particular, it houses an extremely fine collection of Kraak porcelain, considered by experts internationally to be a leading source of reference. The collection is the product of a life-long passion of one man, Dr António Anastácio Gonçalves, and is housed in his former Lisbon residence, a magnificent Beaux Arts town house on one of the city's 'New Avenues'. Published in collaboration with the new Instituto Português de Museus to celebrate the re-opening of the Museum Collection following and extensive programme of renovation, this book opens with… Leer más

The de Young Museum Society, San Francisco, 1967 Book. Good. Soft cover. English text.; Paperback; 20 x 22.5 cm; 0.5 Kg; 166 pages with black-and-white and colour illustrations throughout.; Used book with signs of wear on the exterior. Interior in very good condition.; "Chinese Ceramics is the second of a series of volumes presenting a cross-section of the various departments of the Avery Brundage collection of Asian Art. The items shown here do not represent more than 10 percent of the holdings of a department which contains over 1500 objects and is so comprehensive that it could easily furnish all the necessary material for a detailed history of the evolution of Chinese ceramics. Our choice was dictated by two criteria: esthetic quality and historical interest. Again, we have felt the difficulties inherent in a selection of this kind. At the time of the international symposium on the arts of Asia which was held in the Brundage Wing in the fall of 1966, some specialists observed that a number of… Leer más

The National Palace Museum, Republic of China, 1971 Book. Good. Hardcover. 5th or later Edition. English text; Hardcover (without dust jacket - as issued); 16.5 x 23 cm; 1 Kg; 115 pages plus addendum with 138 colour and black and white illustrations.; Used with signs of wear on the exterior. Interior in very good condition.; "Throughout the past forty years, China's ancient cultural treasures have been carefully preserved. Those art treasures that were removed to Taiwan date from as early as the Sang and Chou dynasties, and as late as the Ming and Ching dynasties. These treasures, dating from every period in Chinese history, are of the finest quality. To enable both Chinese and foreign scholars to fully understand the collection, and to make connoisseurship and research more convenient, the Palace Museum selected a group of choice art objects, and in November 1965, published a handbook entitled, Chinese Cultural Art Treasures. Within a few months every copy of the first edition of the… Leer más

Asia House Gallery, The Asia Society, New York in association with John Weathermill, Inc., 1977 Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. English text; Hardcover (cloth with dust jacket); 23.2 x 25.7 cm; 0.797 Kg; 136 pages with more than 100 illustrations, 15 in colour, are accompanied by detailed notes on the pieces. Also included are two maps showing kiln and excavation sites, a glossary, and extensive bibliography.; Used with signs of wear, namely on the dust jacket front cover, spine and back cover. The interior is in very good condition.; Exhibition of Chinese ceramics from public and private collections in Japan organized under the joint sponsorship of the agency for cultural affairs of the Japanese government and the participating institutions in the United States. Held at Asia House Gallery New York; Seattle Art Museum Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth; and Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, The Avery Brundage Collection.; Chinese ceramics have been treasured in Japan for over 1200 years. This… Leer más