Chelsea & Derby China
New York: Walker, 1960. Hardcover. 64 pages. Illustrated. Marks. More
Ceramics
Old Worcester China
NY: Walker, 1960. Hardcover. 64 pages. Illustrated. Marks. More
A Connoisseur's Guide to Chinese Ceramics; Translated by Katherine Watson
New York: Harper & Row, 1974. First American edition. 317 pages. 33 x 28.5 cm. 111 tipped-in color plates, more than 350 black and white illustrations, plus drawings and maps. Printed in Switzerland. A definitive study of Chinese ceramics from the Neolithic period to the 20th century. Catalogue, Appendices, Bibliography..... More
China: One Hundred Treasures
Jerusalem: The Israel Museum, 2001. First edition. Stiff Wraps. Texts in Hebrew and English. 30.5 x 19 cm. Chronology. Catalogue of Works. Multitude of color plates printed on high end glossy stock. More
Porcelain A Sketch Of Its Nature Art And Manufacture
London: Cassell, 1906. First edition. Hardcover. 264 pages. 8vo, fifty black and white plates. Index. A survey of porcelain made in Europe and Asia for the collector and general reader by an authority. Bookplates. More
English Porcelain 1745-1850
London: Ernest Benn, 1965. First edition. Hardcover. 183 pages. 27 x 21 cm. 180 photographs, twelve in color. Bibliography. Index. General survey. More
Armorial Porcelain of the Eighteenth Century
London: Century House, 1925. First edition. Hardcover. 136 pages. 30 x 24 cm. More than 100 black and white illustrations and three in color. Foreword by Henry Farnham Burke. Limited edition, copy 729 of 1000. Index. Contents bright and fresh, slight toning to fore-edges. More
Japanese Decorative Art
NY: Thomas Yoseloff, 1962. 1st American edition. Hardcover. 296 pp. With 239 black and white illustrations and eight color plates. Notes on Dating. Bibliography. Index. This account, based on western and Japanese literature, summarizes the latest research on the entire field of Japanese decorative art. Translated by Katherine Watson. More
Tan Three-Colored Pottery, Parts I and II
Np: Five Thousand Years of Chinese Art, Nd. Hardcover. Unpaginated. 30.5 x 21.5 cm. Profusion of full page color plates in Vol. I and similarly in Vol. II with full page black and white plates. Text in Chinese. Approximately 60 pages in each volume. More
Le Porcelaine Tendre De Sevres; 50 Plates Representing 250 Water-Color Subjects after the Originals
New York: Charles Scribner's & Sons, 1891. First American edition. leather_bound. 331 pages in text. Folio, 46 x 33 cm. Limited edition, copy 121 one of 283 copies of the Royal Folio Edition. 250 images on 50 chromolithographed plates by Gillot, many colored and heightened in gold partly by hand..... More
Pottery & Porcelain A Handbook For Collectors; Edited With Notes And Appendices By Bernard Rackham
London: Ernest Benn, 1925. First English language edition. Hardcover. 587, 287, 571 pages. 26 x 16 cm. Profusely illustrated, some full color plates. Covers Europe and the Far East. Each volume contains bibliography and indexes, persons and private collections, countries, places, factories and public collections, subjects, technique and terminology. ARNTZEN/RAINWATER..... More
Catalogue Of The Collection Of English Pottery In The Department Of British And Medieval Antiquities And Ethnography Of The British Museum
London: Order Of The Trustees, 1903. First edition. Hardcover. 310 pages in text. 4to, 28 x 22 cm. Forty-two plates and 132 illustrations in the text. Index. Classic work on English pottery, toning to first few and last leaves, text otherwise clean, wrinkling to cloth covers, rubbing to backstrip extremities..... More
The Romance Of Chinese Art
Garden City: Garden City Publishing, 1936. Hardcover. 192 pages. 28.5 x 22 cm. Full page plates in color and halftone. Owner inscription front paste down. Table of Art Periods. Essays by experts, including Oswald Siren, Jiro Harada, George F. Kunz to name a few. More
German Porcelain
London: Faber & Faber, 1957. First edition. Hardcover. 56 pages in text. Illustrated with fourcolor and ninety-six black and white plates. Illustrated list of Marks. Bibliography. Index. ARNTZEN/RAINWATER P312. "A very concise survey in which theauthor's intention is `to describe in its setting this vital and original German porcelain of..... More
English Pottery And Porcelain
London: Adam & Charles Black, 1952. Fourth edition. Hardcover. 271 pages. 22 x 14 cm. Seventy-two photographs, twelve drawings and thirty marks. Bibliography. Index. More
European Ceramic Art from the end of the Middle Ages to about 1815: Illustrated Historical Survey
London: Faber and Faber, 1949. First edition. Hardcover. Royal 8vo, 79 pages in text. twenty-four color plates and more than 180 monochrome illustrations. List of Plates. ARNTZEN/RAINWATER P274. "Consists of an introductory survey....with references in the margins to the plates." More
Old English Porcelain A Handbook for Collectors
London: Whittlesey House, (1946). New Edition. Hardcover. 292 pages. 112 plates, many in color. Marks. Bibliography. Index. More
Bronze, Clay and Stone Chinese Art in the C.C. Wang Family Collection
Seattle & London: University of Washington Press, 1988. First edition. Hardcover. Unpaginated. 34 x 26 cm. Seventy five plates, most are full page and in color with extensive descriptions for each. Selected Bibliography and Index of Chinese names and terms. More
Wedgewood Ware
London: Ward Lock, 1970. First edition. Hardcover. 96 pages. 25 x 18 cm. Profusely illustrated with photographs. Index. More
Art Musulman
Paris: Charles Massin, 1956. New edition. Hardcover. 4to, 18 pages in text and 100 colorplates with descriptive text. Note by Yvonne Brunhammer. Originally published, 1928, this new edition updates and corrects the earlier one. Text in French. More
Les Arts Decoratifs A Toutes Les Epoques
Paris: Morel, 1870. First edition. leather_bound. 4 pages in text. Folio, 44.2 x 33.3 cm. 120 plates comprising 100 chromolithographs and 20 engraved plates. Half-title, title page and some text printed in red and black, Arranged in chronological order, the collection of vibrant printed color plates traces a history of..... More
Chinese Export Porcelain Chien de Commande
New York: Pitman, 1974. First American edition. Hardcover. 256 pages. 24 x 18 cm. 361 black and white photographs, eight plates in color. Bibliography. Index. This is the first work in English dealing exhaustively with Chinese export porcelain. More
18th Century English Porcelain (Notes on various aspects of collecting)
Leigh-on-Sea: F. Lewis, 1970. First edition. Hardcover. 69 pages in text. 4to, 27 x 21 cm. 102 black and white plates. Index. Limited edition, one of 600 copies. More
Antique Porcelain In Color: Meissen
New York: Doubleday, 1971. First American edition. Hardcover. 119 pages. 30 x 21 cm. Profusion of excellent qualiry color photographs by Michael Plomer. More
The Arts of Japan Late Medieval To Modern; Vol. I translated and adapted by John Rosenfield & Vol.II translated and adapted by Glenn T. Webb. Photographs by Takahashi Bin
Tokyo: Kodansha, 1972. Hardcover. 236, 229 pages. Folio, 36.5 x 27 cm. Two monumental works with a host of black and white, color and tipped-in plates. Chronology of Japanese Art until 1568 (Vol.I) and Chronology of Japanese Art from the Sixteenth Century. Supplementary Notes and Glossary in each volume. Interior..... More