Chinese Art: The Impossible Collection
Chinese Art: The Impossible Collection

Author: Adrian Cheng

Publisher: Assouline Publishing

Published: 2021-05-01

Total Pages: 6

ISBN-13: 1614288844

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While readers will come away from Chinese Art with a nuanced understanding of Chinese culture, the volume is also a work of art in its own right—a must-have collectible for any devotee of Chinese art and culture. Assouline’s Ultimate Collection is an homage to the art of luxury bookmaking—the oversized volume is hand-bound using traditional techniques, with several of the plates hand-tipped on art-quality paper and housed in a luxury silk clamshell.

Divine Images, Human Visions
Divine Images, Human Visions

Author: Pratapaditya Pal

Publisher: Bayeux Arts, Incorporated

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 172

ISBN-13: 9781896209050

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Over 150 exquisite color illustrations and text make this account of one of North America's finest South Asian art collections an invaluable guide.

The Arts of China After 1620
The Arts of China After 1620

Author: William Watson

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 2007-01-01

Total Pages: 300

ISBN-13: 0300107358

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This handsome book is the first in a major three-volume series that will survey China's immense wealth of art, architecture, and artefacts from prehistoric times to the twentieth century. The Arts of China to AD 900 investigates the beginnings of the traditions on which much of the art rests, moving from Neolithic and Bronze Age China to the era of the Tang Dynasty around AD 900.

Chinese Jade Throughout Ages
Chinese Jade Throughout Ages

Author: Stanley Charles Nott

Publisher: Tuttle Publishing

Published: 2013-01-15

Total Pages: 520

ISBN-13: 1462909663

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This classic guide to Chinese jade is of great interest to art collectors and casual readers alike. First published in 1936 and since then a collector's item of increasing rarity, Chinese Jade Throughout the Ages comprises a review of the characteristics, decorations, folklore, and symbolism of this esteemed mineral that has always held a proud place among gems of the world. The book presents a full descriptive account of the significance and meaning of the carvings produced in this prize stone by Chinese craftsmen from the earliest times, through the Chou and succeeding dynasties, down to the twentieth century. The text is illustrated with a magnificent series of more than 350 reproductions in color, black and white, and line drawings of choice pieces selected from the chief Asian, European, and American collections. In addition the Chinese art history book explains no only the wealth of symbolic designs used in the decoration of jade but also a large number of the marks and devices by which collectors identify the origin and the date of valued pieces.