Book by Ayers, John, Darby, Michael, Haskins, Susan, Burton, Anthony

Victoria and Albert

BURTON, Anthony

Ayers, John

Haskins, Susan

Darby, Michael

History

Studio

Far Eastern Ceramics in the Victoria and Albert Museum

Arts & Photography

Other Media

Sotheby Parke Bernet Pubns

Oriental Art in the Victoria and Albert Museum

Philip Wison

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 collection. With some 4,500 pieces dating from the Yuan and Ming dynasties, and a further 5,500 from the Qing, the present three-volume work covering the entire collection constitutes the most extensively illustrated book on Chinese ceramics yet published and provides an unrivalled source for dating and the study of design. The main part of the work consists of a complete and definitive catalogue in which every piece is itemised. Each entry is accompanied by one or more monochrome illustrations, scaled in size according to importance, and many are also shown in colour. The work contains 5,000 illustrations in all, of which 200 are large-size colour plates. The volumes divide the catalogue into three major sections, "Celadon Wares", "Yuan and Ming Porcelains" and "Qing Porcelains". These sections and their sub-divisions are arranged chronologically and are prefaced by extensive introductions by Regina Krahl and John Ayers. Virtually all the celadon wares are products of the famous Longquan kilns and the majority date from the 14th and 15th centuries; numbering in all some 1,350 pieces, they comprise the most extensive body of such material in existence. In blue-and-white and white wares of the 14th and early 15th centuries, too, which are widely regarded as the finest products of the Yuan and early Ming, the group of 125 pieces has no rival in size or quality, while the representation of later Ming export blue-and-white is rich in the extreme; the polychrome and monochrome classes of Ming ware also including some notable rarities.

Chinese Ceramics in Topkapi Saray Museum, Istanbul: A Complete Catalogue

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Krahl, Regina

Topkap Saray Muzesi

Erbahar, Nurdan

Antiques & Collectibles

A colorful, comprehensive exploration of Chinese ceramics. Chinese Ceramics: The Koger Collection by John Ayers. NY: Harper & Row, A Sotheby's catalogue of the Koger collection of Chinese ceramics Color illustrations of all 154 pieces ranging from the prehistoric period to the Ch'ing dynasty. Includes figure models along with blue-and-white, monochrome and enamel painted pieces, single-color glazed pieces, sang-de-boeuf, celadon and more.

Chinese Ceramics: The Koger Collection

Rizzoli Intl Pubns

The catalogue of an exhibition organised jointly with the British Museum in the New Japanese Galleries, 6th July to 4th November 1990. 372 objects are described and illustrated, almost all in color. 17 figures accompany the text.

Porcelain For Palaces

IMPEY, Oliver

Du Boulay, Anthony

MALLET

J. V. G.

and Smith, Lawrence

Oriental Ceramic Society

Blanc De Chine: Divine Images in Porcelain

History & Criticism

China Inst in Amer

A colorful, comprehensive exploration of Chinese ceramics.

Travel

University of South Carolina Press

Dehua porcelain or Blanc de Chine as it is known to the West, is pure ivory-white porcelain made at the Dehua kilns in the Southern Chinese province of Fujian. It rose to international significance around the 17th century and inspired aristocratic patronage in the development of European porcelain, Its popularity at home and abroad continued and the kilns at Dehua remain prolific to this day. This is the first comprehensive publication since P.J. Donnelly's pioneering study Blanc de Chine: The Porcelain of Tehua in Fukien, published 30 years ago. Since then research has produced new data on its obscure origins and popular appeal, which will intrigue scholars and general readers alike. The collection donated to the Asian Civilisations Museum in Singapore, by Frank and Pamela Hickley, reflects their dedication to collecting Dehua porcelain over the past 30 years. It comprises more than 160 pieces, including a wide range of shapes and rare as well as popular pieces, dating from as early as the Song dynasty. This eclecticism and the provenance of many pieces, for example from the private collections of Edward T. Chow, P.J. Donelly and Dr. Ip Yee, provide a valuable scholastic resource and a rival to collections around the world. Hardcover with dust jacket: 132 pages, 160 objects depicted in colour, Introductory Remarks by Rose Kerr, Pamela Hickley by Heidi Tan, Blanc de Chine by John Ayers, Blanc de Chine in Archaeological Perspective by Chuimei Ho, A Note on the Construction of Dehua Figures by Kenson Kwok, Dehua Porcelain in the collection of Augustus the Strong in Dresden by Eva Strober, Catalogue by Heidi Tan and Bibliography. Printed in Singapore.

Blanc De Chine: Porcelain from Dehua

Kerr, Rose

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