La Céramique Chinoise: Porcelaine Orientale, Date de sa Découverte, Explication des Sujets de Décor--Les Usages Divers Classification
by Grandidier, Ernest
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- Hardcover
- Condition
- VG-, mild wear to extremities, small bookplate of A.B. Spanjaard inside front cover a nice copy overall with great shelf appeal
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Columbia, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
Paris, France: Librairie de Firmin-Didot et Cie, 1894. Hardcover. VG-, mild wear to extremities, small bookplate of A.B. Spanjaard inside front cover a nice copy overall with great shelf appeal. 3/4 brown leather with 5 raised-bands. Gilt tooling and devices on the spine and in the compartments. Marbled endpapers, top edge gilt. 232 pp + 42 bw heliogravure plates. Text in French (Chinese Ceramics: Oriental Porcelain, Date of its Discovery, Explication of the Subjects of its Decoration--The Usages of Different Classification). Beginning in the 870s / 1880s Ernest Grandidier became one of the great specialists in Chinese ceramics; chief curator at the Louvre Museum from 1894, his collection is now kept at the Guimet Museum.
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- Bookseller
- Mullen Books, Inc. ABAA / ILAB (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 175287
- Title
- La Céramique Chinoise: Porcelaine Orientale, Date de sa Découverte, Explication des Sujets de Décor--Les Usages Divers Classification
- Author
- Grandidier, Ernest
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - VG-, mild wear to extremities, small bookplate of A.B. Spanjaard inside front cover a nice copy overall with great shelf appeal
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Librairie de Firmin-Didot et Cie
- Place of Publication
- Paris, France
- Date Published
- 1894
- Keywords
- Asian Art ; Chinese Ceramics ; ;
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