The Large 300 Sudoku Puzzles ( Easy to Hard)
by Bridget Puzzle Press
Bow Porcelain (Monographs on Pottery & Porcelain)
by Elizabeth Adams and David Redstone
China's art objects and traditionally manufactured products have long been sought by collectors-from porcelains and silk fabrics to furniture and even the lacquered chopsticks that are a distant relation to ones found in most Chinese restaurants. Things Chinese presents sixty distinctive items that are typical of Chinese culture and together open a special window onto the people, history, and society of the world's largest nation. Many of the objects are collectibles, and each has a story to tel...
"An intimate narrative history of porcelain, structured around five journeys through landscapes where porcelain was dreamed about, fired, refined, collected, and coveted"--
Collector's Encyclopedia of R.S. Prussia Fourth Series
by Mary Frank Gaston
To many people "blue and white" is virtually synonymous with the entire range of Chinese porcelain with a large number regarding the ubiquitous "Willow Pattern" as the main, if not the only decorative motif. The truth is vastly different in that the history of blue and white over the last 600 years has far more to say and thus is deserving of serious study. With the exception of a brief period when it fell out of fashion in the years following the death of the Xuande emperor, it had been in the...
The Zsolnay Manufactory represents a triumph of Hungarian applied arts, for during its heyday it produced elegant and innovative ceramics for an international clientele as well as architectural ceramics that embellished some of the finest public and private buildings in the Austro-Hungarian empire. This manual recounts the story of the 150-year-old company and presents numerous examples of its work, showing how its changing fortunes reflect the cultural, economic and political developments in Ce...
In his third book, Christer Löfgren expands the scholarship on imperial Chinese porcelain with a radical, new interpretation of the term “Mark and Period”. From identifying only marks on imperial porcelain, to looking at objects associated with those marks, his analysis will change imperial porcelain's image and significantly contribute to the knowledge base of Chinese porcelain experts and collectors. For the first time, it is now possible to group all imperial items in all these periods, from...
Included in The Metropolitan Museum of Art's comprehensive collections are many smaller ones that illustrate facets of the intriguing history of styles and techniques. It is with a view to making these sometimes subtle qualities more widely known that with this summary handbook of eighteenth-century Italian porcelain we inaugurate a new publishing venture-a series of informative, well-illustrated, and accessible guides. The earliest European porcelain was made in Florence under the patronage of...
Price & Reference Guide to PHB Porcelain Hinged Boxes
by Patricia O'Grady
British Teapots and Tea Drinking
Stylistic Village Vignettes (Village Vignettes, #2)
by Sue Chretien and Leigh E Gieringer
