Sotheby's concise encyclopedia of porcelain / general editor David Battie
1990, 1st edition. London : Conran Octopus. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Item #429772
ISBN: 1850292515
Physical description; 208p : col.ill ; 29cm. Notes; Bibliography: p193. - Includes index. Contents; Foreword / Julian Thompson -- Introduction / David Battie -- The discovery of porcelain / Gordon Lang -- Qing imperial porcelain / David Priestley -- Chinese export porcelain / Geoffrey Godden -- Japanese porcelain / Oliver Impey and Lars Tharp -- Early Continental porcelain / Anthony du Boulay, Tamara Prèaud and Lars Tharp -- Early English porcelain / Simon Spero -- English and Welsh porcelain 1780 to 1820 / Terry Lockett and Jimmy Jones -- Continental porcelain 1780 to 1930 / Mark Newstead and Tamara Prèaud -- Late British and American porcelain / Henry Sandon, Joan Jones and Garrison Stradling -- Fakes and forgeries / Davie Battie -- Bibliography -- Glossary -- Biographies -- Map and time chart -- Index. Subjects; Porcelain History. Porcelain Encyclopedias. Porcelain Dictionaries. Ceramics. Porcelain. Porcelain history Encyclopaedias. Ceramic history. Ceramics. Encyclopedias.
Price: €12.95