The Copeland Collection
The Copeland Collection

Author: William Robert Sargent

Publisher: Peabody Essex Museum

Published: 1991

Total Pages: 298

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The Copeland Collection of 134 Chinese and Japanese ceramic figures, perhaps the most important assemblage of its kind still in private hands, is recognized internationally for the superb quality of its many rare forms. Acquired by Mrs. Lammot du Pont Copeland over the past fifty years, each of these beautifully modeled human and animal figures testifies to the unerring eye of a premiere collector.The majority of these figures are of porcelain, produced during the late seventeenth to the late eighteenth centuries, principally for export to the West. Each individual piece displays the meticulous artistry, the marvelous enameling, and the animation and wit characteristic of this remarkably innovative period in ceramic history However modest in scale, many are important works of art.--Amazon.com.

Chinese Jades
Chinese Jades

Author: Ming Wilson

Publisher: Victoria & Albert Museum

Published: 2004-08

Total Pages: 144

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Confucius (551-479 BC) praised jade as 'the embodiment of virtue'. Excavations in China since the 1970s have shed much light on the use and production of jade in neolithic and early dynastic periods. Excavated jade artefacts dating from the seventh to seventeenth centuries are rare, so it is particularly valuable that a number of specimens have been unearthed from tombs and pagoda foundations during the past two decades, thus allowing heirloom jades to be compared with these excavated examples and correctly dated. This book is a timely reassessment of what is known about Chinese jade, which has been a central element of Chinese material culture for an uninterrupted span of seven thousand years, and will appeal to collectors and newcomers to the subject alike.

Catalogue of Chinese Porcelain and Works of Art, English and Continental Furniture, Etc., Comprising Chinese Porcelain in "Famille Verte", "Famille Rose", and Blue and White--jade, Enamels, Ivories, Metal, Embroideries, Etc., Also Chippendale and Sheraton Chairs, the Property of C. A. Hughes, Esq., 178 Clarence Gate Gardens, Regent's Park; a Hepplewhite Bookcase, a Sheraton Table, and a Chippendale Kneehole Writing Table, the Property of the Hon. Mabel Waldegrave, Mayfield, Woolston, Hants; a Gothic Oak Credence--a Painted Chest, Dated 1611-- a Fine William and Mary Fire Screen--a Louis XV Pedestal, and Other Furniture in Oak, Walnut, Mahogany and Satinwood
Catalogue of Chinese Porcelain and Works of Art, English and Continental Furniture, Etc., Comprising Chinese Porcelain in

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