Search Results: Authors starting with B from Jorge Welsh Books

Thames & Hudson, 2016 Book. Very Good. Hardcover. English text, Hardcover in printed cloth with closing ribbon (without dust jacket as issued), 16.8 x 23.2 cm, 0.850 Kg, 224 pages with colour illustrations throughout.; Used with minor signs of wear.; A beautifully illustrated introduction to Katsushika Hokusai, the most prolific artist of Japan's Edo period, and master of ukiyo-e - 'images of the floating world'. Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849) was the most prolific and diverse artist of Japan's Edo period, with a body of work reputed to include more than 30,000 drawings, paintings and prints. This book traces the career of this child from a working-class district of old Tokyo, then known as Edo, evoking the special atmosphere of this great city and of Japanese life, when Japan - closed to foreigners - developed in a vacuum a powerfully original culture. Its urban centres enjoyed increasing wealth and stability, leading to a flourishing culture of art and pleasure-seeking.… Read More

Barry Davies Oriental Art Ltd, London, 1997 Book. As New. Hardcover. 1st Edition. English and Chinese text.; Hardcover (with dust jacket); 23.5 x 26.5; 1.6 Kg.; 227 pages with colour illustrations throughout.; Used with minor sings of wear on the dust jacket. Interior as new. The dust jacket is now protected with a clearcover.; Catalogue from an exhibition held at Barry Davies Oriental Art Gallery from the 17-27 June 1997, with pieces from the collection of Japanese export porcelains by Dr Oliver Impey..

British Museum Publications Limited, London, 1976 Book. Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. English text; Hardcover (cloth with dust jacket); 20 x 25.7 cm; 0.722 Kg; 184 pages including 36 netsuke in colour and 650 monochrome illustrations.; Used book with minor signs of wear..The dust jacket is now protected with a clearcover.; Netsuke open the door to almost every aspect of Japanese life seen in miniature. So intricate and delicate, even humorous at times, is their carving that in the West it is often forgotten that netsuke served a functional purpose as small toggles. They were to stop the cord slipping on the sash, which hung the small objects that every man needed to carry around with him - his tobacco pouch, pipe, purse and yatate (a combined writing-brush and ink-well). Before the seventeenth century netsuke were insignificant objects and rarely of artistic interest. With increasing prosperity, merchants, often rich and enlightened patrons of the arts, were not allowed to flaunt their riches and so… Read More

Centro Cientifíco e Cultural de Macau, Portugal, 2009 Book. Very Good. Hardcover. English and Portuguese text; Hardcover; 24 x 30.5 cm; 1.155 Kg; 148 pages with colour illustrations.; Limited edition of 750 copies.; As new with signs of shelf wear. Our logo is glued to the front free endpaper.; Exhibition Catalogue.; This catalogue results from a long period of research about the life of the Portuguese Jesuit Tomás Pereira, who was, until recently, very little known by the academic community and almost anonymous in the collective memory. The point of departure for this investigation project was Tomás Pereira's diary, Diário de 1689, which was published for the first time in 1961. From then onwards, the Jesuit priest remained relatively forgotten. From 2006 until 2008, when the results were presented at an international colloquium organised by the Centro Científico e Cultural de Macau, there was a systematic search for new documents relating to his life, with new… Read More

Kodansha International Ltd, Tokyo, 1981 Book. Very Good. Hardcover. English text; Hardcover (cloth without dust jacket - as issued. In splicase.); 171 pages with colour and black-and-white illustrations throughout.; 27 x 38 cm; 2.89 kg; Used book in very good condition with minor scuffs and signs of wear in the slipcase and hardcover cloth. The spine is slightly faded as usual. Interior as new.; This volume was originally published by Kodansha as part of a limited deluxe 12 volume set in 1974, this critically acclaimed and now scarce masterpiece has been issued in a standard edition with no compromise in the quality of scholarship or production, handsomely cloth-bound with an attractive slipcase.; "In 1974 the display of Chinese ceramics of all types covering all periods from the second century B.C. to the nineteenth century A.D. is not only as representative of this great art as any other museum, but it also contains each class at least one, often several, of the acknowledge masterpieces. The… Read More

The Asian Art Museum, 2006 Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. English text; Hardcover (with dust jacket); 23.7 x 31.2 cm; 2.279 Kg; 352 pages with colour illustrations throughout.; Used with signs of wear on the dust jacket. The dust jacket is now protected with a clearcover. Minor signs of wear on the interior.; Can decorative objects increase one's wealth, happiness, or longevity? Traditionally, many Chinese have believed that they could, provided they include the appropriate auspicious symbols. In Hidden Meanings in Chinese Art, Terese Tse Bartholomew, culminating decades of research, has provided a thorough guide to such symbols. Auspicious symbols in Chinese art are often in the form of rebuses, visual puns. Because many words in Chinese share the same pronunciation, there is a wealth of opportunities for such punning, and over the centuries many rebuses have developed established meanings. Hidden Meanings in Chinese Art brings a systematic approach to the cataloguing of such hidden… Read More

Azimuth Editions, Sackler Gallery, United Kingdom, 1997 Book. Fine. Soft cover. English text; Paperback; 24.5 x 34.5 cm; 1.594 Kg; 248 pages with colour illustrations.; New book with signs of long term storage and shelf wear, namely edgeworn and marks on the outside text block. The interior is new, except for our logo glued to the front free endpaper.: "The Padshahnama (History of the Emperor)", written by Abd al-Hamid Lahori, is one of the greatest works made for the Mughal Emperor, Shah Jahan, the builder of the Taj Mahal. The volume in the Royal Library at Windsor Castle documents the first ten years of the Emperor's rule. It has seldom been exhibited and the majority of pages remain unpublished. The Royal Library is making it available for an exhibition organized by the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, and the volume will then be rebound. This exhibition is therefore the only foreseeable opportunity to view at once all the illustrations to one of… Read More

Octupus Books Limited, London, 1973 Book. Good. Hardcover. English text; Hardcover (cloth with dust jacket); 21.2 x 24.7 cm; 0.573 Kg; 95 pages with black-and-white and colour illustrations; used book in good condition, with minor signs of wear in the dust jacket. The front cover cloth as some marks, which are only seen if the dust jacket is removed; The text is divided in four main chapters: The early wares; The Ming Dynasty (1368-1644), The Ch'ing dynasty (1644-1912); and Chinese Export Porcelain.; The products of the Imperial and other kilns have created one of the gentlest and most beautiful of the arts. The technical inventiveness of Chinese potters - they had discovered methods of glazing pottery by the third century BC - made possible the manufacture of wonderfully delicate materials and colours. Their versatility as artists enabled them to design new shapes, and decorate them with incised or applied motifs which have been imitated throughout the world. Anthony du Boulay traces the… Read More

Phaidon, Christie's Limted , 1984 Book. Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. English Text, 22 x 28.6 cm, 1.404 Kg; 319 pages with over 1000 illustrations, including 200 in colour.; Used with signs of wear on the dust jacket, which is price clipped and has a tear on the back. The dust jacket is now protected with a clearcover.; Interior in very good condition.; Chinese ceramics are among the most popular works of art in the world. From the discoveries in the tombs of early emperors, it is clear that pottery and porcelain have had a high value in China for several millennia. In this book, Anthony du Boulay explains the history and development of ceramics in China from the Bronze Age to the nineteenth century. The hundreds of pictures are arranged in a historical sequence, each double page covering a definite period, place and style. The illustrations are grouped into chapters, covering periods, each of which is introduced by a brief and lucid text, outlining the historical trends. This reach subject has… Read More

Bracken Books, London published in association with Phoebe Phillips Editions, 1989 Book. Good. Hardcover. English text; Hardcover (with dust jacket); 30.5 x 22.5 cm; 1.564 Kg; 256 pages with 300 illustrations, 150 in colour.; Used with signs of wear on the dust jacket and on the interior, namely on the bottom of some pages which seem to have been glued to each other in the past. The dust jacket is now protected with a clearcover.; From its first use over 1,000 years ago lacquer has had a fascination for artists, craftsmen and collectors all over the world. With over 300 illustrations, 150 in colour, LACQUER covers the entire history of the subject - ranging from the dramatic red, black, and gold of Imperial China and Japan, via the richly worked lac of India and Persia, European chinoiserie and American japanning, to the bold brilliance of contemporary designs. There are country by country sections on China, Japan, the Ryukyu Islands and Korea, South East Asia, the Near and Middle East, India,… Read More

The Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore and London, 1993 Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. English text.; Hardcover (with dust jacket); 0.7 kg.; 16 x 23.5 cm.; 356 pages .; Used with minor signs of wear. The dust jacket is now protected with a clearcover.; While Spanish traders of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries were mining the riches of the New World, the Portuguese continued to reap the lucrative Asian trade in spices and luxury items. Historians have long considered the Portuguese trade the exclusive enterprise of the kings of Portugal and a few privileged aristocrats, with only minimal participation by private merchants. But in fact, argues James C. Boyajian, actual capital investments by private Portuguese merchants were roughly ten times those of the Portuguese crown - and even exceed those of the far larger Dutch East India Company. In Portuguese Trade in Asia under the Habsburgs, Boyajian reassesses the consequences of Portugal's flourishing private trade with Asia,… Read More

Privately printed, São Paulo, Brazil, 1951 Book. Fair. Hardcover. Portuguese text.; Hardcover; 17 x 23 cm; 1.2 kg; 427 pages with illustrations, a few in colour; Used book with signs of wear, namely on the spine that shows signs of a removed sticker. Interior with signs of wear namely signs of being re-cased in the past.; Standard edition of 1000 unnumbered copies.; This richly illustrated book explains the links between the Companhia das Índias Orientais and the history of Chinese export porcelain in Brazil. The author reproduces maps and ancient engravings. This book is an important addiction for any collector, scholar or anyone interested in Chinese export porcelain..

Oxford University Press, Hong Kong, 1982 Book. Very Good. Hardcover. English text; Hardcover (cloth with dust jacket); 17 x 25 cm; 0.513 Kg; 104 pages with black-and-white illustrations.; Used in very good condition, with signs of wear on the exterior. The dust jacket is slightly faded on spine and bottom of the back cover. The dust jacket is now protected with a clearcover.; First published by Henri Vetch, Peking, 1938. Reissued, with a Biographical and Bibliographical Note of the Author, and a note on "The A.D. Brankston Collection of Chinese Porcelain in the British Museum", by Soame Jenyns (1954), by Vetch and Lee Limited, Hong Kong, 1970. This edition reprinted, with permission, by Oxford University Press, 1982.; Early Ming Wares of the Chingtechen became the standard work on the wares of the reigns of Yung Lo (1403-24) and Hsuan Te (1426-35). The author, A.D. Brankston, brought to the subject a rare combination of taste and enthusiasm, documentation from Chinese sources and knowledge… Read More

Aronson Publishers, Amsterdam, 2013 Book. As New. Soft cover. 1st Edition. English text; Paperback; 21 x 27 cm; 0,650 Kg; 128 pages with 69 illustrated catalogue entries, with photos of marks.; Dealer Catalogue.; Used with minor signs of wear on the exterior.; Dutch majolica, Delft faience (fayence) 1550-1820. Including extensive bibliography and brief history on Dutch Delftware. .

Oxford University Press, Singapore, 1988 Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 2nd Edition. English text; Hardcover (with dust jacket); 21 x 28 cm; 1.333 kg; 272 pages including 69 figures, 6 maps, 274 black-and-white illustrations and 207 colour illustrations.; Used book in very good condition. With minor signs of wear on the front cover, spine and back cover. Interior as new.; When the first edition of this book was published in 1977, it was hoped that it would play a part in reviving a serious interest in the ceramics of South-East Asia. Happily, this proved to be the case: books have subsequently appeared in English devoted to Khmer, Vietnamese, Sukhotai/Sawankhlalok, and northern Thai wares, and in Japanese and Thai, to Thai ceramics generally; a bibliography of works on old glazed Burmese ceramics is growing; dozens of articles have been published on various aspects of new research; and underwater archaeology concentrating on shiwrecks containing ceramics has flourished. Recent progress in original… Read More

Crown Publishers, Inc., New York, 1980 Book. Good. Hardcover. English text; Hardcover (with dust jacket); 34.5 x 24 cm; 2,326 Kg; 429 pages with 116 plates in colour and over 400 reproductions in black and white.; The original edition of this work was published in ten volumes in 1896 by Appleton and Company.; EX-LIBRARY with stamp on the front and rear free endpapers, and on the outside text block. The dust jacket is protected with a permanent clearcover. Signs of wear on the dust jacket and the interior. Good readable copy.; This volume contains every word and every picture of Oriental Ceramic Art, which is listed in almost every encyclopaedia and in many museum handbooks as a basic source book in its field. While its major emphasis is on the ceramics of China, it also has sections on Japan and Korea. Published in 1896 in a limited edition of 500 copies it soon disappeared from the market as most of the ten volume, 43 x 56 cm sets were given to major institutions, heads of state, and friends of W.T.… Read More

Crown Publishers, Inc., New York, 1980 Book. Very Good. Hardcover. English text; Hardcover (with dust jacket); 34.5 x 24 cm; 2,326 Kg; 429 pages with 116 plates in colour and over 400 reproductions in black and white.; The original edition of this work was published in ten volumes in 1896 by Appleton and Company.; Signs of wear on the dust jacket, which has chips and tears. The dust jacket is now protected with a clearcover. Interior in very good condition.; This volume contains every word and every picture of Oriental Ceramic Art, which is listed in almost every encyclopaedia and in many museum handbooks as a basic source book in its field. While its major emphasis is on the ceramics of China, it also has sections on Japan and Korea. Published in 1896 in a limited edition of 500 copies it soon disappeared from the market as most of the ten volume, 43 x 56 cm sets were given to major institutions, heads of state, and friends of W.T. Walters, who paid for its publication and whose collection… Read More

Casell Publishers, London, 1987 Book. Good. Soft cover. English text; Paperback; 13 x 19 cm; 0.228 kg; 153 pages with colour illustrations.; Used book with minor signs of wear.; The origins of bronze-working in China are mysterious and deeply rooted in ancient Chinese myths. Metallurgy in all its forms seemed miraculous to the ordinary man, and every object, sword or vessel was thought to possess a spirit of its own. Those who worked with metals seemed to be wizards with supernatural powers, all the more so because the melting operation was preceded, accompanied and followed by religious ceremonies, exorcism and magic rites. M. Bussagli describes the background to the production of Chinese bronzes in fascinating detail, and explains the significance of the different types of ritual vessel and the symbolism of the stylized decoration. The fine illustrations include objects from the Shang, Chou, Han and T'ang periods, and each described fully in the accompanying notes..

The Oriental Ceramic Society in association with Sotheby Publications, 1986 Book. Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. English text; Hardcover (cloth) with dust jacket; 22.2 x 29 cm; 0.734 Kg; 104 pages with various black-and-white illustrations; Used book with signs of shelf wear in the dust jacket, the dust jacket is slightly faded on the front cover. The interior is in very good condition.; Includes the following articles: Chinese Porcelain at the Beginning of the Qing by Sir Michael Butler; Longquan Celadon of the Yuan and Ming Dynasties in the Topkapi Saray Museum, Istanbul by Regina Krahl; Early Northern Whitewares of Gongxian, Xing and Ding (George de Menasce Memorial Lecture) by Christine-Ann Richards; Ming Porcelains in the Santos Palace Collection, Lisbon by Daisy Lion-Goldschimidt; Summaries of Lectures by Anthony du Boulay and Frances Wood..