Trésors d'art Chinois récentes Découvertes A40427rchéologiques de la Republique Populaire de Chine - Petit Palais - Mai - Septembre 1973

Paris: Petit Palais. Very Good. 1973. Paperback. 161 pages; Owner's signature on first page "Susan Mary Alsop / Apt 1505 / Watergate Park", otherwise clean and secure in original glossy pictorial wrappers. Foreword by Lord Trevelyan. Illustrated with b&w and color photographs and maps. This is the first exhibition held outside China in which the greater part of her cultural history is illustrated wholly by documented material, mostly from controlled excavations. The Exhibits include: Palaeolithic and neolithic periods; The Shang dynasty; Western Chou dynasty and the period of the Spring and Autumn Annals; Period of the Warring States; Ch'in and Western Han dynasties; Kingdom of Tien; Eastern Han dynasty; Period of the Six dynasties; Textiles of the Han period to the T'ang and manuscripts and food from the T'ang period; Sui and T'ang dynasties; Period of the Five dynasties and the Sung dynasty; Liao and Yuan dynasties. From the collection of Susan Mary Patten Alsop, a popular historian and a pillar of Washington society, was the daughter of a diplomat, a descendant of founding father John Jay and served with her first husband Bill Patten at the American Embassy in Paris in the 1950s. When her husband died in 1960, she married Joseph Alsop, the journalist, the following year. In the 1970s she embarked on her own literary career producing "To Marietta From Paris: 1945-1960" (1974), followed by "Lady Sackville: A Biography" (1978), "Yankees at the Court: The First Americans in Paris" (1982), and "The Congress Dances: Vienna 1814-1815" (1984). Her Georgetown homes (both with and without Alsop) hosted dignitaries, publishers and a variety of interesting people during the 1960s and 1970s including such luminaries as John F. Kennedy, Phil Graham, Katharine Graham, and Isaiah Berlin, earning her the nickname "the grand dame of Washington society," (to which she rather objected). .