The Museum of East Asian Art Inaugural Exhibition: Chinese metalwares and decorative arts
The Museum of East Asian Art Inaugural Exhibition: Chinese metalwares and decorative arts

Author: Museum of East Asian Art (Bath, England)

Publisher: Art Media Resources

Published: 1993

Total Pages: 200

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V. 1. This volume of the catalogue for the Inaugural Exhibition of The Museum of East Asian Art contains the descriptions and photographs of some 225 Chinese ceramics, which cover the period from late Neolithic times (circa 2500 B.C.) to about 1820 A.D. and are a fairly comprehensive selection of the ceramics produced in China during this long period. -- Author's note.

The Museum of East Asian Art Inaugural Exhibition: Chinese ceramics
The Museum of East Asian Art Inaugural Exhibition: Chinese ceramics

Author: Museum of East Asian Art (Bath, England)

Publisher: Art Media Resources

Published: 1993

Total Pages: 292

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The only museum devoted to East Asian Art to open in England in the last 30 years, the Museum of East Asian Art amasses a formidable collection of Chinese art, notably ceramics, jades, and metalworks. This volume presents the museum's fine collection of Chinese ceramics, ranging in date from the Neolithic to the Qing dynasty.

Lacquerware in Asia, Today and Yesterday
Lacquerware in Asia, Today and Yesterday

Author: Monika Kopplin

Publisher: Unesco

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 248

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Dating back several thousand years, the art of lacquer is one of the most ancient expressions of Asian culture, and this publication provides an overview of the different kinds of methods and materials used in Cambodia, China, India, Korea, Japan, Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam. The number of people employed in this ancestral art has fallen dramatically throughout Asia in recent decades, and this book considers the challenges to its survival as well as highlighting the importance of documenting past and modern procedures.

Ancient Chinese and Southeast Asian Bronze Age Cultures
Ancient Chinese and Southeast Asian Bronze Age Cultures

Author: David Bulbeck

Publisher: University of Washington Press

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 730

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Focusing on the ancient culture and civilization of China, early Southeast Asia, and Melanesia, contributions from 40 specialists in archaeology, ceramics, conservation, historical studies, linguistics, metallurgy, radiocarbon dating, and x-radiology are coordinated into an overall view of the background of the Pacific cultures to the north of Australia. The forty-five papers were delivered at a conference at Kiola, NSW, in 1988, and have been since updated. All of the contributions are presented in English.