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NEW& RECENT PUBLICATIONS1 British Museum; Simpson, St John & Pankova, Svetlana ed: SCYTHIANS. Warriors of Ancient Siberia. London,

2017. 368 pp. Colour illustrations throughout. 28x25 cm. Cloth. £40.00Catalogue of the fascinating exhibition on the Scythians held at the British Museum with extensive loans from the Hermitage Museumin St Petersburg. Includes finds from the recent excavations of the Arkhan 2 tomb. Large amounts of gold artefacts plus very early tex-tiles found in tombs and other associated artefacts. Useful texts accompany.

2 Chen Mengjia: HAIWAI ZHONGGUO TONGQI TULU: DI YI JI. Chinese Bronzes in Foreign Collections, FirstSeries. 海外中國銅器圖錄：第一集。陳夢家著作集. Beijing, 2017. 551, 27, 8 pp. text 346 pp. collotypeplates. 2 vols. 27x19 cm. Boards. £130.00Facsimile reproduction of a very scarce work on Chinese archaic bronzes in European and American collections. Interesting insightinto the early collecting of ancient Chinese bronzes by westerners in the early 20th century. First published in 1946. 29 pages of textin English. Main text in Chinese.

3 Dang Fengshan: ZHONGGUO MINSU WENHUA: BOLI JING. (Chinese Folk Customs and Culture: GlassMirrors). 中國民俗文化：玻璃鏡。黨風山著. Hohhot, 2013. 2, 256 pp. Colour illustrations throughout. 23x17cm. Wrappers. £50.00A well-illustrated study on 20th century Chinese glass mirrors divided into two main sections; Republic period and New China post1949. Much communist material. Focus on post-1949 glass mirror paintings together with some older material from Shanxi provinceand Inner Mongolia. Descriptive texts accompany. Little written on Chinese glass of this period. In Chinese. Hard to obtain.

4 de Bruijn, Emile: CHINESE WALLPAPER IN BRITAIN AND IRELAND. London, 2017. xii, 260 pp. Colourplates throughout. 29x24 cm. Cloth. £30.00A very welcome, well-illustrated and informative contribution on a subject on which, until recently, very little has been published.This much helps to fill the gap. Provides an overview of the most significant painted Chinese wallpapers surviving in the British Isles,in stately homes and major houses in Britain and Ireland and dating from the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries. Charts the stylistic de-velopment of these wallpapers and touches on the China trade and social significance of Chinese-style decoration.

5 Desroches, Jean-Paul et al: LA CITE INTERDITE A MONACO: VIE DE COUR DES EMPEREURS ETIMPERATRICES DE CHINE. (The Forbidden City in Monaco: The Court Life of the Chinese Emperors andEmpresses). Milan, 2017. 286 pp. Colour plates throughout. 29x22 cm. Boards. £29.95Produced to accompany a fine exhibition of Chinese imperial art in Monaco. The objects loaned from the Gugong Palace Museum inBeijing. Includes objects from the Ming and Qing dynasties in numerous media — ceramics, paintings, court robes, decorative objects,Buddhist art. Illustrated throughout. Text in French.

6 Empson, William; Arrowsmith, Rupert ed: THE FACE OF THE BUDDHA. Oxford, 2016. lxii, 1, 152 pp. 14 pp.colour plates hors texte. B/w text illustrations. 25x19 cm. Cloth. £30.00A study of Buddhist art in Asia, focussing on the face of the Buddha. Written in the 1930s and 1940s by the English poet and literarycritic, William Empson, who travelled extensively in Asia, the manuscript remained lost for 60 years and is here published for the firsttime, together with background on Empson, his work and peregrinations.

7 Eskenazi: SIX DYNASTIES ART FROM THE NORMAN A. KURLAND COLLECTION. Part one. London,2017. 199 pp. Colour plates throughout. 27x27 cm. Cloth. £60.00Dealer’s catalogue showing 38 exhibits of fine six dynasties art from the very focussed collection of Norman Kurland. Includes won-derful Buddhist sculpture, tomb figures, animal tomb figure and groups of figurines plus a few glazed ceramics. All illustrated and de-scribed in exhaustive detail. Introductory essay: Juliano: Northern Dynasties (386-581): Sculpture in Turbulent Times.

8 Feng Xiaoqi & Chen Xigui ed: XI GUI YA JI: SONG CI JIANYAO. (An Elegant Selection of Song DynastyJianyao Wares). 璽圭雅集：宋瓷建窯。馮小琦陳西桂主編. Beijing, 2017. 221 pp. Colour plates throughout.29x22 cm. Cloth. £100.00Catalogue of a fine private Chinese collection of song dynasty jian wares, mainly hare’s fur tea bowls. A wide selection, very well pho-tographed. Most of the bowls shown in multiple views — the bowl in its entirety, the interior and the base. A pleasure to browse. InChinese.

9 Harrison-Hall, Jessica: CHINA. A History in Objects. London, 2017. 352 pp. Colour illustrations throughout.24x17 cm. £29.95Illustrated history of China from the Neolithic to the present day. Told chronologically in six chapters, through art, artefacts, peopleand places and richly illustrated with expertly-selected objects and artworks. Over 600 colour illustrations.

10 Thompson, Sarah E: TATTOOS IN JAPANESE PRINTS. London, 2017. 152 pp. Colour illustrations throughout.25x20 cm. Boards. £20.00A fine selection of ukiyo-e prints showing images primarily of Japanese actors, and also other figures bearing tattoos. The prints fromthe collection of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. Introductory texts accompany.

11 West, S. & Idema, W. trans: THE ORPHAN OF ZHAO AND OTHER YUAN PLAYS. The Earliest KnownVersions. New York, 2014. c. 300 pp. 25x15 cm. Cloth. £54.95

12 Yang Jianhua et al: OUYA CAOYUAN DONGBU DE JINSHU ZHI LU — SICHOU ZHI LU YU XIONGNULIANMENG YUNYU GUOCHENG. The Metal Road of the Eastern Eurasian Steppe: The Growing of XiongnuConfederation and the Silk Road. 歐亞草原東部的金屬之路－絲綢之路與匈奴聯盟孕育過程。楊建華等著. Shanghai, 2017. 13, 4, 5, 6, 11, 1, 1, 13, 556 pp. 13 pp. colour plates. Numerous b/w text drawings. 24x17 cm.Wrappers. £50.00A detailed and extensively-illustrated contribution to this still-elusive subject. Six page detailed list of contents in English. Divided intosix lengthy chapters: 1. The Germination of Northern Bronzes; 2. The Expansion of Steppe Cultures during the 2nd Millennium B.C.;3. The Rise and Spread of China Northern Bronzes; 4. The Beginning of early Nomadic Age; 5. Northern Zone and Eurasia Steppeduring the Early Iron Age; 6. The Cultural Contact between Northern Zone and Eurasia Steppe during Xiongnu Age.

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13 Zhao Bolin & Liu Yanchun: ZHONGGUO PINGBAN BOLI HUA. (Chinese Glass Paintings). 中國平板玻璃畫。趙柏林劉艷春著. Shijiazhuang, 2013. 211 pp. Colour plates throughout. 28x29 cm. Boards. £90.00A detailed and extensively-illustrated study of Chinese paintings on glass. A wide variety is shown. The paintings appear to date fromthe early to mid 20th century. Little written on this subject. In Chinese. Hard to obtain.

PAINTING AND CALLIGRAPHY14 Addiss, Stephen: 77 DANCES. Japanese Calligraphy by Poets, Monks andScholars 1568-1868. 2006. xiv, 259 pp. Over 100 colour illustrations. Bibliography,index. 30x22 cm. Cloth. £25.00Splendid, well-illustrated study of seventy-seven important calligraphic works from a period of re-markable flowering in Japan’s highest visual art — with great spiritual, especially Zen Buddhist,resonance. This is, in fact, the first book in English to be devoted to Japanese calligraphy spanningthe Momoyama and Edo periods. Recommended. 15 Anhui Provincial Museum ed: ANHUISHENG BOWUGUAN CANG HUA.Painting Collected by Anhui Provincial Museum. 安徽省博物館藏畫. Beijing, 2004.214 pp. Colour plates throughout. 1 foldout. 29x22 cm. Boards. £30.00Illustrates 165 examples of Chinese paintings in the fine collection of the Anhui Provincial Museum.Primarily Ming and Qing works. All paintings illustrated in colour. Main text in Chinese.16 Yuhas, Louise ed: ARS ORIENTALIS VOLUME 25. Ann Arbor, 1995. viii, 159pp. 95 illustrations. 28x22 cm. Paper. £45.00The whole volume is a special issue on Chinese painting in honour of Richard Edwards. It contains 13 articles by various scholars onvarious subjects, mostly on Ming painting, Richard Edwards speciality.

17 Ashmolean Museum ed: VISIONS OF MUGHAL INDIA. The Collection of Howard Hodgkin. Oxford, 2012. 288pp. Colour illustrations throughout. 28x22 cm. Paper. £15.00Produced to accompany an exhibition at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford. The recently-deceased painter, Howard Hodgkin, wasalso a devoted collector of fine Indian paintings and drawings of the Mughal period. A refined and personal collection informed by anartist’s eye. All illustrated and well-described.

18 Asian Art Museum: OSAKA EXCHANGE EXHIBITION. Paintings from the Abe Collection and OtherMasterpieces of Chinese Art. Tokyo, 1970. 174 pp. 121 illustrations, 24 in colour. 23x20 cm. Paper. £10.00Catalogue of artefacts from the Abe Collection lent by the people of Osaka, Japan. Exhibited in San Francisco and elsewhere in theUnited States.

19 Bai Qianshen: FU SHAN’S WORLD. The Transformation of Chinese Calligraphy inthe 17th Century. Harvard East Asian Monographs, 220. Harvard, 2003. xxii, 338 pp.155 b/w illustrations, 58 line drawings. Map. Bibliography, character list, index. 29x22cm. Cloth. £25.00An example of recent western scholarship on Chinese calligraphy that is at last bringing to its studythe quality of attention previously reserved for painting and other more accessible arts. Yet this well-illustrated study is also highly readable, not to say inspiring, and has much to say about the fasci-nating cultural transition from the Ming to Qing periods.

20 Barnhart, Richard et al: THE JADE STUDIO. Masterpieces of Ming and QingPainting and Calligraphy. New Haven, 1994. 307 pp. 154 colour and 178 b/willustrations, appendix, bibliography, index. 31x24 cm. Cloth. £50.00A catalogue of works from the Wong Nan-p’ing Collection at the Yale University Gallery of Art, theentries impeccably researched and presented, with an overview of the collection and essays on otheraspects of Ming and Qing art.

21 Barnhart, Richard M: ALONG THE BORDER OF HEAVEN. Sung and Yuan Paintings from the C. C. WangFamily Collection. New York, 1983. 192 pp. 2 pp. in Chinese. 105 illustrations, 41 in colour,appendixes. 35x25 cm.Cloth. £25.00The extraordinary collection of Chinese paintings assembled by the family of the famous connoisseur-collector C. C. Wang ranges fromthe majestic art of the Song to the rarefied art of the late Yuan period.

22 Barnhart, Richard M: LI KUNG-LIN’S ‘CLASSIC OF FILIAL PIETY’. New York, 1993. 176 pp. 73illustrations, including 16 colour plates. 32x24 cm. Cloth. £20.00Richard Barnhart, along with Robert E. Harris and Hui-liang J. Chu, takes up the connoisseurship of one of the monuments of eleventh-century Chinese painting, the 15 1/2-foot handscroll that has been on loan to the Metropolitan Museum of Art from the Tang familycollection.

23 Barnhart, Richard M: PAINTERS OF THE GREAT MING. The Imperial Court and the Zhe School. Dallas,1993. 360 pp. 110 catalogue items in colour & 172 b/w figures. List of artists. Bibliography. 32x24 cm. Paper.

£60.00Superbly-produced catalogue of a fine exhibition which travelled from the Dallas Museum of Art to the Metropolitan Museum in NewYork. With essays by Mary Ann Rogers and Richard Stanley-Baker.

24 Barnhart, Richard M: WINTRY FORESTS, OLD TREES. Some Landscape Themes in Chinese Painting. NewYork, 1972. 64 pp. Illustrations of all 22 exhibits. 24x20 cm. Paper. £20.00Catalogue of the 13th exhibition of Chinese art presented by China House Gallery. Scarce.

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25 Barrass, Gordon S: THE ART OF CALLIGRAPHY IN MODERN CHINA.London, 2002. 288 pp. 180 colour and 20 b/w illustrations. 29x23 cm. Cloth. £30.00Richly-illustrated survey of the development and significance of calligraphy in modern China, the firstmonograph in English to deal with the living art of calligraphy. Focuses on 25 key artists who havebeen personally interviewed by the author. Accompanied an exhibition at the British Museum.

26 Bickford, Maggie: INK PLUM. The Making of a Chinese Scholar-Painting Genre.Cambridge, 1996. 384 pp. 40 halftones, 51 line diagrams, 4 tables. 29x22 cm. Cloth.

£60.00Ink plum painting first emerged in the Song dynasty and rapidly became an established genre of tra-ditional Chinese painting. This erudite and detailed study examines its emergence and development.

27 British Museum; Canby, Sheila ed: PRINCES, POETS & PALADINS. Islamic andIndian Painting from the Collection of Prince and Princess Sadruddin Aga Khan.London, 1998. 192 pp. Colour illustrations throughout. 28x23 cm. Cloth. £15.00Catalogue of an exhibition held at the British Museum in 1998 showing the finest Islamic and Indianpaintings in the collection of the Aga Khan. All illustrated in colour and well-described. Good in-troductions.

28 Brown, Claudia: GREAT QING. Painting in China 1644-1911. Seattle, 2014. xv, 336 pp. Colour text illustrationsthroughout. 25x18 cm. Cloth. £50.00A comprehensive overview of painting throughout the course of China’s last dynasty. Amongst topics explored are the relationship be-tween painting and mapmaking, the roles of patrons and collectors, printmaking and publishing, religious themes and western influ-ences.

29 Brown, Claudia & Ju-hsi Chou: TRANSCENDING TURMOIL. Painting at the Close of China’s Empire 1796-1911. Phoenix, 1992. 368 pp. 110 plates, 19 in colour. Notes bibliography. 30x20 cm. Paper. £20.00Splendid catalogue of a travelling exhibition in the States. The paintings loaned from museum and private collections and illustrateand examine the painting tradition during the latter part of the Qing.

30 Brunel, Francis: SPLENDOUR OF INDIAN MINIATURES. Boulogne, 160 pp. Colour illustrations throughout.28x21 cm. Cloth, dustjacket. £15.00A good visual survey of these very fine paintings, primarily figures in interiors and garden settings. Dual texts in French and English.

31 Bush, Susan: THE CHINESE LITERATI ON PAINTING. Su Shih (1037-1101) to Tung Chi-ch’ang (1555-1636). Harvard-Yenching Institute Studies XXVII. Cambridge, 1971. 238 pp. 9 plates. Bibliography, glossary, index.25x16 cm. Paper. £20.00An examination of scholarly writings on art of different periods.

32 Bush, Susan Hsio-yen Shih: EARLY CHINESE TEXTS ON PAINTING. Cambridge, 1985. xii, 391 pp. 8 plates.Glossary, bibliography and index. 23x16 cm. Paper. £25.00Collection of important Chinese writings about paintings, from the earliest examples through to the 14th century. Includes a glossaryof terms and an appendix containing brief biographies of 270 artists and critics.

33 Cahill, James: CHINESE PAINTING. Treasures of Asia. Geneva, 1960. 213 pp. 110 colour plates. Index,bibliography. 29x25 cm. Cloth. £20.00An excellent introduction to the history of Chinese painting, with a fresh interpretational approach. Beautiful colour plates. By a fore-most scholar.

34 Cahill, James: THE COMPELLING IMAGE. Nature and Style in Seventeenth Century Chinese Painting. TheCharles Eliot Norton Lectures. Cambridge, 1982. xi, 250 pp. 12 colour plates, 238 illustrations, 2 maps. Notes,index. 29x22 cm. Paper. £45.00Cahill explores the painting of the era when the collapse of the Ming period and the Manchu conquest of China dramatically changedthe lives and thinking of artists and intellectuals. Illustrations from collections worldwide.

35 Cahill, James: HILLS BEYOND A RIVER. Chinese Painting of the Yuan Dynasty, 1279-1368. New York, 1976.xv, 198 pp. 8 colour plates, 94 b/w illustrations; 2 maps. Bibliography, index. 30x22 cm. Cloth. £65.00The standard work on Yuan painting. An increasingly scarce reference.

36 Cahill, James: PICTURES FOR USE AND PLEASURE. Vernacular Painting inHigh Qing China. Berkeley, 2010. ix, 265 pp. Numerous colour text plates. 26x21 cm.Cloth. £35.00A welcome study of a much-neglected area of Chinese painting. Written by a foremost expert, it pro-vides an accurate and detailed survey.

37 Cahill, James: THREE ALTERNATIVE HISTORIES OF CHINESE PAINTING.The Franklin D. Murphy Lectures IX. Lawrence, 1988. 112 pp. 1 colour plate, 84illustrations. 27x22 cm. Cloth. £25.00Three lectures that break with the traditional stylistic approach: ‘Political Themes in Chinese Paint-ing’, ‘Meanings and Functions in Chinese Landscape Painting’ and ‘Quickness and Spontaneity inChinese Painting: The Ups and Downs of an Ideal’.

38 Cahill, James et al: THE RESTLESS LANDSCAPE. Chinese Painting of the Late Ming Period. Berkeley, 1971.179 pp. 84 plates, 4 in colour. Map, bibliography. 28x29 cm. Paper. £40.00Fifteen essays by Prof. Cahill’s students on various aspects of late Ming painting together with a catalogue of 84 select paintings.

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39 Cahill, James et al: SHADOWS OF MT. HUANG. Chinese Painting and Printing of the Anhui School. Berkeley,1981. 150 pp. 68 illustrations, some in colour. Map, bibliography. 30x23 cm. Paper. £45.00An excellent study and catalogue on a specific subject of Chinese painting, with a chapter on printing, illustrated by various wood-block printed books.

40 Cahill, James et al: SOGEN-GA. 12th-14th Century Chinese Painting as Collected and Appreciated in Japan.Berkeley, 1982. 54 pp. 44 plates. Select bibliography. 25x21 cm. Paper. £10.00An exhibition of rare and elegant Song and Yuan paintings and many notable works from Japan, at the University Art Museum of theUniversity of California.

41 Cai Yunfeng ed: QING FENG YA YUN: YANGZHOU BOWUGUAN CANG MING QING SHANMIANJICUI. (The Elegant Essence of Pure Winds: Treasures of Ming and Qing Fans in the Collection of the YangzhouMuseum). 清風雅韻：揚州博物館藏明清扇面集粹。蔡雲峰主編. Beijing, 2012. 202 pp. Colour platesthroughout. 29x22 cm. Boards. £55.00Shows 160 fine Ming and Qing dynasty fans in the collection of the Yangzhou Museum. Illustrated throughout in colour. Text in Chi-nese.

42 Cambon, P: THE POETRY OF INK. The Korean Literati Tradition 1392-1910. Paris, 2005. 279 pp. Colour platesthroughout. 29x22 cm. Boards. £30.00Catalogue of an exhibition at the Musée Guimet of Korean literati painting. Whilst Chinese literati painting is well-documented, theKorean literati painting movement is little-known and this exhibition is a welcome contribution to its study. A good catalogue illus-trated throughout in colour. Text in English.

43 Capon, Edmund & Pang, Anna Mae: CHINESE PAINTINGS OF THE MING AND QING DYNASTIES. 14th-20th Centuries. Sydney, 1981. 208 pp. 100 colour plates, many illustrations. Map, index of artists, bibliography.28x21 cm. Boards. £15.00Travelling exhibition in Australia of 100 paintings by 80 artists loaned by 13 museums in the Peoples’ Republic. Most of the paintings,ranging from Wang Li to Xu Beihong, have not been reproduced before.

44 Cat Street Galleries: COLLECTORS’ CHOICE: THE GENIUS OF SHI LU. Hong Kong, 1994. 64 pp. 17 colourplates. 29x21 cm. Paper. £15.00Hong Kong dealer’s catalogue showing painting and calligraphy by this modern master.

45 Ch’oe Wan-su; Youngsook Pak and Roderick Whitfield ed. and trans: KOREANTRUE-VIEW LANDSCAPE. Paintings by Chong Son (1676-1759). Korea LibrarySeries. London, 2005. 382 pp. Colour plates throughout. Maps. Bibliography, glossary-index. 30x22 cm. Cloth. £40.00Provides an unprecedented insight into the artistic culture of early 18th-century Korea through a de-tailed examination and commentary on Chong Son’s album of landscape paintings. The original arthistorical text is by the chief curator of the Kansong Museum in Seoul, with Pak and Whitfield of-fering translation and scholarly apparatus.

46 Chan, Helen: A CATALOGUE OF CHINESE PAINTING IN THE LUIS DECAMOES MUSEUM MACAU. Macau, 1977. 67 pp. text and 54 b/w plates. 27x19cm. Paper. £15.00Predominantly Ming and Qing material.

47 Chandra, Lokesh & Sharma, Nirmala: BUDDHIST PAINTINGS OF TUN-HUANG.In the National Museum, New Delhi. New Delhi, 2011. 280 pp. Colour platesthroughout. 32x25 cm. Cloth. £45.00Reproduces 143 of the best painted scrolls brought back from Dunhuang by Aurel Stein and held in the National Museum, New Delhi.Stein’s finds were split between the British Museum in London and the now National Museum in New Delhi. Whilst the British Mu-seum holdings have been published, the Delhi holdings are little-known and this book is most welcome. Illustrated throughout in colourand with good introductory texts and descriptions of the paintings.

48 Chang, Willow et al: THE LAST EMPEROR’S COLLECTION. Masterpieces of Painting and Calligraphy fromthe Liaoning Provincial Museum. New York, 2008. 358 pp. Numerous colour plates (a number of foldouts),a fewb/w illustrations. 28x22 cm. Paper. £40.00Catalogue of an exhibition at the China Institute of America in New York showing 34 Ming and Qing dynasty paintings and calligra-phy from the Liaoning Museum collection which were in the Chinese imperial collection. The paintings and calligraphy are of muchinterest as they were taken from the Forbidden City by the last emperor, Pu Yi, prior to his expulsion. The journey and fate of theseand other works taken from the collection (in particular the earlier and most famous works) is discussed in detail and sheds much lighton an obscure chapter in the history of the Chinese imperial collection. There are also essays on the history of the imperial collection,the collecting habits of the Qing emperors and a section on imperial works in American collections. The paintings and calligraphy areall illustrated in colour in their entirety, many with foldout colour plates. Detailed descriptions accompany. Recommended.

49 Chaves, Jonathan: THE CHINESE PAINTER AS POET. New York, 2000. 159 pp. Colour and b/w illus. 28x22cm. Paper. £30.00Features colour plates and a detailed examination of the works in the exhibition at the China Institute Art Gallery. Explores the har-monious integration of painting, poetry and calligraphy.

50 CHEN CHUN JINGPIN HUAJI. (Masterpieces by Chen Chun). 陳淳精品畫集. Tianjin, 2000. 17 pp. text and149 full page colour plates. 39x27 cm. Cloth. £75.00A fine selection of works by the Ming dynasty painter Chen Chun. Shows landscapes, flowers, bamboo. Includes a number of fan paint-ings. High quality colour plates. In Chinese only. Out-of-print and difficult to find.


51 Cheng Xi: MUFEI CANGHUA KAOPING. A Study of Some Ming and Ch’ing Paintings in the Mu-FeiCollection. 木扉藏畫考評. Hong Kong, 1965. 80 pp. 53 plates. 27x19 cm. Wrappers, Chinese style. £30.00A descriptive catalogue in Chinese of over 50 paintings in the Cheng Te-k’un collection. Professor Cheng was married to a sister ofPu Yi, the last Emperor. Text in Chinese. caption list in English.

52 Chiang Yee: CALLIGRAPHY AND PAINTINGS BY CHIANG YEE. Jiang Yi Shuhua. Canberra, 1972. 50 pp.74 b/w plates. 26x21 cm. Paper. £15.00Catalogue of a one-man show of paintings and calligraphy by Chiang Yee of ‘Silent Traveller’ fame held at City Hall, Hong Kong. 74b/w illustrations of paintings, many of pandas, animals, scenery and figures.

53 Chiang Yee: CHINESE CALLIGRAPHY. An Introduction to its Aesthetics and Technique. Cambridge, 1973.xx, 250 pp. 21 plates, 157 text-illustrations. Index. 24x16 cm. Paper. £15.00Third revised and enlarged edition.

54 Chou Ju-hsi & Brown, Claudia: HERITAGE OF THE BRUSH. The Roy and Marylin Papp Collection of ChinesePainting. Phoenix, 1989. 128 pp. 151 illustrations, 8 in colour. 30x21 cm. Paper. £20.00Fully illustrated exhibition catalogue documents this private collection of Ming and Qing period paintings.

55 Chou Ju-hsi and Claudia Brown: THE ELEGANT BRUSH. Chinese Painting Under the Qianlong Emperor 1735-1795. Phoenix, 1985. 376 pp. 135 illustrations, 9 in colour. Bibliography and glossary. 31x23 cm. Paper. £40.00Catalogue of an exhibition held at the Phoenix Art Museum in 1985, with critical essays and biographies of each artist. An in-depthstudy of Chinese paintings of the mid-Qing period.

56 Chou, Ju-Hsi: SCENT OF INK. The Roy and Marilyn Papp Collection of Chinese Painting. Phoenix, 1994. 176pp. 50 paintings and albums illustrated, 12 in colour. Notes, bibliography. 30x21 cm. Paper. £20.00Exhibition at the Phoenix Art Museum. Fifty paintings of Ming and Qing date are discussed and illustrated. The paintings, both scrollsand albums, are acquisitions done after the previous exhibition of the Papp collection — Heritage of the Brush — in 1989.

57 Christie’s and Sotheby’s: NINE AUCTION CATALOGUES ON CHINESE PAINTING ANDCALLIGRAPHY. Hong Kong and New York, 1990-2002. Various paginations. Colour illustrations throughouteach volume. 9 vols. 27x21 cm. Paper. £80.00Nine auction catalogues on Chinese painting and calligraphy sold at Christie’s and Sotheby’s in Hong Kong and New York from 1990-2002. A mix of classical painting and calligraphy together with catalogues on modern and contemporary painting.

58 Chu, Christina et al: HOMAGE TO TRADITION: HUANG BINHONG 1865-1955. 澄懷古道：黃賓虹 1865-1955. Hong Kong, 1995. 210 pp. 62 works illustrated in colour. Chronology. 28x28 cm. Paper. £60.00Catalogue in English and Chinese of a major exhibition of Chinese paintings by Huang, held at the Hong Kong Museum of Art. 62scrolls and albums described and illustrated in full in colour. Scarce.

59 Chung, Anita ed.; with Shan Guolin: CHINESE PAINTINGS FROM THE SHANGHAI MUSEUM 1851-1911.Edinburgh, 2000. 144 pp. 100 colour illustrations. 20x21 cm. Paper. £15.00Interesting selection of late Qing paintings which reflect, in particular, the lively artistic scene in Shanghai at the time, and werepainted for local collectors. Exhibited at the National Museum of Scotland, preface by Roderick Whitfield.

60 Clapp, Ann de Coursey: PAINTING OF T’ANG YIN. Chicago, 1991. 312 pp. 100 illustrations, 6 in colour. 23cm. Cloth. £30.00A detailed monograph on this Chinese artist (1470-1523).

61 Clunas, Craig: ELEGANT DEBTS. The Social Art of Wen Zhengming. London,2004. 223 pp. 100 illustrations, 60 in colour. 28x10 cm. Cloth. £45.00Renowned as one of the great ‘scholar painters’ of the Ming dynasty, Wen Zhengming (1470-1559)was enmeshed in a complex web of social obligation — his ‘elegant debts’ as he called them — whichled to many of his most celebrated works. This work uses many primary sources for Wen’s life andworks, and examines the ways in which social obligation and gift exchange were central to personaland individual identity in the Ming period. An erudite study.

62 Contag, Victoria: CHINESE MASTERS OF THE 17TH CENTURY. London,1969. 148 pp. 96 b/w illustrations. Index of artists’ names. 29x24 cm. Cloth. £10.00Concise and well-illustrated study of late Ming and early Qing painters.

63 Contag, Victoria and Wang Chi-chuan: SEALS OF CHINESE PAINTERS ANDCOLLECTORS. Of the Ming and Ch’ing Periods. Hong Kong, 1966. lxviii, 726 pp.Chinese, English and German text. Seals reproduced in red. 26x19 cm. Paper.£95.009,000 seal impressions of paintings in the Palace Museum and in Chinese collections, together with 739 impressions found on Amer-ican owned works. Revised edition with supplement. Very important reference work. Revised 1966 edition, introduction by JamesCahill. Used copy with wear and tear to spine but internally fine. Reasonably-priced copy of a scarce reference.

64 Cui Zimo ed: ZHONGGUO YISHU DASHI: BADA SHANREN. Greatest Master in Chinese Art: Bada Shanren.中國藝術大師：八大山人。崔自默 . Shijiazhuang 2009. 283 pp. Colour plates throughout. 30x23 cm.Wrappers. £50.00A well-illlustrated study of the work of this pre-eminent early Qing dynasty artist. Text in Chinese.

65 Daoji: SHITAO SHUHUA QUANJI. (Complete Collection of Painting and Calligraphy by Shitao [Daoji]). 石濤書畫全集. Tianjin, 1995. 18; 6 pp. Chinese text. 1-209; 210-428 colour plates. Table of extant works. 2 vols. 38x28cm. Cloth, slipcases. £200.00Splendid reproductions of Shitao’s extant works from the collections of eighteen museums in the PRC, including the Forbidden City,Shanghai and other major institutions. An essential resource for the study of this important painter. In Chinese. Out-of-print and hardto find.


66 Ecke, Gustav: CHINESE PAINTING IN HAWAII. In the Honolulu Academy of Arts and in Private Collections.Honolulu, 1965. Vol. I: Text: xvii, 407 pp. Many text figures & illustrations plus 40 full page colour and b/w plates,the majority tipped-in. Bibliography. Vol. II: Plates 41-53. Vol. III: 3 vols. 31x25 cm. Cloth, cloth slipcase.

£800.00One volume of text with commentaries on the paintings illustrated by 40 full page plates in colour, collotype & halftone. Accompaniedby two portfolios containing folding black-and-white collotype plates showing paintings reproduced in their entirety, including somevery lengthy handscrolls. A very well-produced work on a fine museum collection of Chinese paintings, together with items from pri-vate collections in Hawaii. Written by a renowned scholar. Produced in an edition limited to 550 numbered sets. Slight grubbiness tothe slipcase, the volumes and plates themselves as new. Scarce.

67 Ecke, Tseng Yu-ho: CHINESE CALLIGRAPHY. Philadelphia, 1971. (20) pp. 96 plates with explanatory text.Chronology, index of artists. 30x22 cm. Paper. £20.00Paperback edition.

68 Edwards, Richard: THE ART OF WEN CHENG-MING (1470-1559). Ann Arbor, 1976. 257 pp. Numerous b/willustrations, maps. Index, bibliography. 31x23 cm. Paper. £60.00Exhibition catalogue of paintings by this Ming artist. The text provides a sketch biography and analysis of the development of his art.Paperback edition. A scarce contribution on this painter’s work.

69 Edwards, Richard: THE FIELD OF STONES. A Study of the Art of Shen Chou (1427-1509). Freer Gallery ofArt, Oriental Studies 5. Washington, 1962. xxi, 131 pp. 50 plates. Bibliography, index. 36x26 cm. Cloth. £20.00A first-rate piece of research concerning the famous artist Shen Zhou (1427-1509) by the professor of Far Eastern Art at the Univer-sity of Michigan.

70 Edwards, Richard: THE WORLD AROUND THE CHINESE ARTIST. Aspects of Realism in Chinese Painting.London, 1987. 158 pp. Numerous b/w illustrations, notes, glossary. 26x19 cm. Paper. £15.00Three essays, originally presented as lectures, on three important Chinese artists from different periods in the development of Chinesepainting. The artists are Xia Gui, Shen Zhou and Shi Tao.

71 Edwards, Richard ed: THE PAINTING OF TAO-CHI 1641-CA. 1720. Michigan, 1967. 200 pp. 23 figures, 90b/w plates. 25x19 cm. Paper. £40.00Catalogue of the very fine exhibition of the work of the Chinese painter, Daoji held in 1967 at the Museum of Art, University of Michi-gan. Scarce.

72 Eskenazi: RECENT PAINTINGS BY ARNOLD CHANG. London, 2006. 56 pp. Colour plates throughout. Acouple of foldouts. Colour text illus. 30x21 cm. Wrappers. £10.00Dealer’s catalogue of 18 paintings done in the 2000s by Arnold Chang, auction specialist on Chinese painting and accomplished Chi-nese painter in his own right. Accompanied by an essay on the artist’s work.

73 Eskenazi: MOUNTAIN LANDSCAPES BY LI HUAYI. London, 2007. 63 pp. Colour plates throughout.Bibliography. 30x21 cm. Cloth. £15.0020 extremely well-executed paintings of varying sizes of Chinese mountain landscapes by the contemporary Chinese painter, Li Huayi.Exquisite detail. All illustrated. Introductory essay on the artist’s work.

74 Eskenazi: SEVEN CLASSICAL CHINESE PAINTINGS. London, 2009. 49 pp. Colour plates throughout (sixfolding). Bibliography. 30x21 cm. Cloth. £25.00Catalogue of an exhibition at Eskenazi of seven beautiful Chinese paintings in the Song style dated to between the Southern Song andearly Ming periods. All illustrated in colour in multiple views and showing seals. Described in detail. Introduction by Roderick Whit-field.

75 Eskenazi: THE TWELVE ANIMALS OF THE ZODIAC BY LI HUAYI. London, 2011. 39 pp. 12 colour plates.1 b/w illus. 27x27 cm. Cloth. £10.00Dealer’s catalogue of an exhibition showing the 12 animals of the Chinese zodiac painted by the Chinese painter, Li Huayi. Introduc-tion giving useful information on the zodiac animals and the traditional Chinese calendar.

76 Eskenazi: TRANSFIGURED ECHOES: RECENT PAINTINGS BY LIU DAN. London, 2015. 118 pp. Black-and-white full page plates throughout (plus a few colour plates). 5 foldouts. 32x26 cm. Cloth. £50.00Dealer’s catalogue showing 10 recent paintings of scholar’s rocks and landscapes by the increasingly-eminent contemporary literatipainter, Liu Dan. All paintings very well illustrated and described. Introductory essay accompanies.

77 Farrer, Anne: WU GUANZHONG. A Twentieth-Century Chinese Painter. London, 1992. 176 pp. 112 illustrations,60 in colour. 23x31 cm. Cloth. £30.00Catalogue of first major exhibition in the West of Wu Guanzhong’s work, at the British Museum. Forty-four major works in oil and pen-and-ink are fully illustrated and accompanied by Wu Guanzhong’s own commentary.

78 Fenollosa, Ernest; Haun Saussy et al. ed: THE CHINESE WRITTEN CHARACTER AS A MEDIUM FORPOETRY. An Ars Poetica / With a Foreword and Notes by Ezra Pound. New York, 2008. 256 pp. Illustrations.Cloth. £15.00A new critical edition of this classic of modern English poetics, with highly useful apparatus and introductory material by a serioussinologist and scholar of comparative literature. Pound used Fenollosa’s brief essay on Chinese poetry in order to ‘break the pen-tameter’ and shore up his imagist revisioning of poetry in English.

79 Five Thousand Years of Chinese Art ed: ZHONGHUA WUQIAN NIAN WENWU JIKAN: FASHU PIAN LIU:ZHAO MENGFU. Five Thousand Years of Chinese Art Series: Chinese Calligraphy Part VI: The Calligraphy ofthe Chao Meng-Fu (Zhao Mengfu). 中華五千年文物集刊：法書篇六：趙孟頫. Five Thousand Years ofChinese Art. Taibei, 1986. 368 pp. B/w illustration throughout. 31x21 cm. Cloth. £50.00A fine compilation of the renowned calligraphy of the Yuan dynasty Chinese artist, Zhao Mengfu (1254-1322). The examples from Tai-wanese collections, primarily that of the National Palace Museum. Descriptive text accompanies. In Chinese. Scarce.


80 Fong, Wen: IMAGES OF THE MIND — SELECTIONS FROM THE EDWARD L. ELLIOTT FAMILY.And John B. Elliott Collections of Chinese Calligraphy and Painting. Princeton, 1984. 504 pp. 415 illustrations, 19in colour. 34x29 cm. Cloth. £40.00Large and weighty catalogue of an exhibition of 70 works. Includes essays by Wen Fong and others on the history of Chinese paint-ing and calligraphy, on the highlights of the collection, and on individual pieces.

81 Fong, Wen C: BEYOND REPRESENTATION. Chinese Painting and Calligraphy 8th-14th Century. New Haven,1992. 500 pp. 220 b/w, 222 colour plates. 30x24 cm. Cloth. £60.00A survey of Chinese painting from the 8th-14th century, lavishly illustrated from the collection in the Metropolitan Museum.

82 Fong, Wen C: WORDS AND IMAGES. Chinese Poetry, Calligraphy, and Painting. Lawrenceville, 1991. 560 pp.250 illustrations. 30x21 cm. Cloth. £50.0023 essays based on papers presented at the international symposium held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1985 to celebrate thegifts and promised gifts of Chinese calligraphy and painting from John M. Crawford, Jr.

83 Fu Baoshi: FU BAOSHI HUAJI. (The Paintings of Fu Baoshi). 傅抱石畫集. Nanjing, 1981. ix, 100 plates,predominantly in colour. Chronology of the artist’s life. 38x27 cm. Cloth. £60.00One hundred fine paintings by Fu Baoshi are shown mostly in full page colour plates, some in black-and-white. Text in Chinese.

84 Fu, Marilyn & Wen Fong: THE WILDERNESS COLORS OF TAO-CHI. New York, 1973. 48 pp. 12 colourplates. 35x26 cm. Cloth, slipcase. £15.00Translation and illustration of a very fine album of twelve leaves from the Arthur M. Sackler collection. Includes a commentary.

85 Fu, Shen C. Y: CHALLENGING THE PAST. The Paintings of Chang Dai-chien. Washington, 1991. 328 pp. 240illustrations, 125 in colour. Bibliography, index. 31x23 cm. Paper. £40.00A major monograph on one of the foremost Chinese painters of the 20th century. During his 60-year career, Zhang painted almost30,000 works, the quality and diversity of which bear witness to his genius. Published to accompany the retrospective exhibition at theFreer. A scarce catalogue.

86 Giacalone, Vito: CHU TA: SELECTED PAINTING AND CALLIGRAPHY. Poughkeepsie, 1972. 26 pp. textand 26 pp. illustrations. 25x18 cm. Paper. £40.00Very scarce catalogue of an exhibition of wonderful paintings by the Chinese painting master, Bada Shanren, held at the Vassar Col-lege of Art.

87 Giacalone, Vito & Hsu, Ginger Cheng-chi: THE ECCENTRIC PAINTERS OF YANGZHOU. New York, 1991.92 pp. 69 illustrations including 9 in colour. Map, bibliography. 28x21 cm. Paper. £15.00China House Gallery exhibition of Chinese paintings from private and museum collections illustrating the ‘baguai’ group of paintingin the 17th and 18th century Yangzhou.

88 Goedhuis, Michael: INK. The Art of China. London, 2012. 199 pp. Colour and b/w illustrations throughout. 29x24cm. Wrappers. £20.00Catalogue produced to accompany an exhibition at the Saatchi gallery in London showing contemporary Chinese ink painting by nu-merous artists loaned from private collections. A good and well-illustrated contribution on this resurgent form of Chinese art.

89 Goedhuis, Michael et al: CHINA WITHOUT BORDERS. An Exhibition of Chinese Contemporary Art. 無際中華. London, 2001. 104 pp. Colour plates throughout. 35x25 cm. Paper. £15.00Catalogue of an exhibition of Chinese contemporary art and design held at Sotheby’s New York, bringing together an important se-lection of talent. With introductory remarks or brief essays by Goedhuis, Michael Sullivan, Melissa Walt Thompson, Gao Minglu,Jonathan Hay and (on the designers) John S. Major.

90 Goto Art Museum: SPECIAL EXHIBITION: INK MISTS: ZEN PAINTINGS BY MUQI. Tokyo, 1996. 180pp. 61 paintings illustrated, 49 in colour. Many b/w illustrations in text. 25x26 cm. Paper. £40.00Illustrated catalogue in Japanese only on the Southern Song Chinese artist, almost all of whose attributed works are preserved inJapan. Includes many derivative paintings for comparison. The first exhibition of Muqi for a generation.

91 Grand Palais: MONTAGNES CÉLESTES: TRÉSORS DE MUSÉES DE CHINE. (Celestial Mountains:Treasures from China’s Museums). Paris, 2004. 22, 323 pp. Colour plates throughout. Bibliography. 31x24 cm.Paper. £40.00Exhibition catalogue on mountains in Chinese art and culture, consisting chiefly of landscape painting, with major loans from China— Beijing, Shanghai, Liaoning, Tianjin and Nanjing plus a number of works from French collections. Approximately 100 paintingsfrom 12-19th centuries and 50 archaeological objects. In French.

92 Gugong Museum: GUGONG CANG PIN: GONG XIAN SHANSHUI CE. (From the Collections of the GugongMuseum: A Landscape Album by Gong Xian). 故宮藏品：龔賢山水冊. Beijing, 2007. Various paginations offolded leaves. Numerous colour plates. 36x21 cm. Accordion-style. £40.00A good reproduction in its entirety of an album by the Qing dynasty painter, Gong Xian. Comprises 20 double page painted leaves show-ing landscape vignettes. The leaves of the album are reproduced in near original size and are accompanied thereafter by close-up de-tail from various leaves. Seven pages of explanatory text accompany. Text in Chinese.

93 Gugong Museum: GUGONG SHUHUA GUAN: DI SI BIAN. The Calligraphy and Painting Gallery of the PalaceMuseum Part IV. 故宮書畫館第四編. Beijing, 2009. 220 pp. Colour plates throughout. B/w text illustrations. 2colour foldouts. 29x22 cm. Wrappers. £70.00Catalogue of the fourth part of an extensive and ongoing series of exhibitions held in the Wuyingdian exhibition hall in the ForbiddenCity in Beijing showing highlights of Chinese painting and calligraphy from the Gugong Museum’s collection. This fourth selectionshowed 68 wonderful works dating from the Jin and Song dynasties through to the Qing. Many seldom-exhibited. All paintings illus-trated and described. Forewords and list of plates with good descriptions in English. Also a five page essay in English: Yuan: On Bird-and-Flower Painting. Main text in Chinese.


94 Gugong Museum: NAN CHEN BEI CUI: GUGONG BOWUYUAN SHANGHAI BOWUGUAN CANGCHEN HONGSHOU CUI ZIZHONG SHUHUA JI. Painting and Calligraphies of Chen Hongshou and CuiZizhong from the Palace Museum and the Shanghai Museum. 南陳北崔：故宮博物院上海博物館藏陳洪綬崔子忠書畫集. Beijing, 2008. 211 pp. Full page colour plates throughout. 30x23 cm. Wrappers. £60.00Produced to accompany an excellent exhibition held at both the Gugong Museum, Beijing, and the Shanghai Museum, showing veryfine paintings from both collections by the famous Qing dynasty artist, Chen Hongshou, and the lesser-known, but very accomplished,Cui Zizhong. Forewords, list of contents, list of plates, abstracts to essays and captions in English. Main text in Chinese.

95 Harrist Jr., Robert E. and Wen C. Fong: THE EMBODIED IMAGE. ChineseCalligraphy from the John B. Elliott Collection. New York, 1999. 600 pp. 450illustrations, 35 in colour. 31x23 cm. Cloth. £30.00New perspectives on the visual art of the written word in China, with many previously unpublishedpieces from this renowned collection, dating from the 3rd century to the modern period. From an ex-hibition of calligraphy in New York which is the most comprehensive yet seen outside of China. Ac-companied by scholarly essays.

96 Harrist, Robert: PAINTING AND PRIVATE LIFE IN ELEVENTH-CENTURYCHINA. Mountain Villa by Li Gonglin. Princeton, 1998. 256 pp. 86 halftones. 18x12cm. Cloth. £30.00In the 11th century, the focus of Chinese painting shifted. A group of scholar-artists began makingpaintings that reflected their private lives. Through a detailed analysis of Mountain Villa, a new ex-planation for the rise of autobiographic content in Chinese art is offered.

97 Hawes, Colette & Hugh: MODERN CHINESE BRUSH PAINTINGS. from a family collection. London, 2003.96 pp. Colour text plates throughout. 30x21 cm. Wrappers. £15.00A selection from a family collection of modern Chinese paintings acquired between 1960 and 2000. Includes many well-known mod-ern masters together with some lesser-known names. All illustrated in colour and described. Brief biographies of the artists are in-cluded.

98 He Ruyu ed: YUAN CHIANG YUAN YAO: SHANSHUI LOUGE JIE HUA. Masters of Landscape Painting:Yuan Chiang and Yuan Yao. 袁江袁耀：山水樓閣界畫. Taibei, 1984. 96 pp. Colour illustrations throughout.28x21 cm. Paper. £20.00Yuan Jiang and Yuan Yao were active as painters during the Kangxi and Qianlong reigns of the Qing dynasty, famous for their land-scape paintings. A fine selection are here illustrated, presumably drawn from the collection of the National Palace Museum. One pageintroduction, list of contents and captions to plates in English. Fuller text in Chinese.

99 Hearn, Maxwell and Fong, Wen C: ALONG THE RIVERBANK. Paintings from the C. C. Wang FamilyCollection. New York, 1999. 256 pp. 50 colour and 110 b/w illustrations. Bibliography, index. 32x24 cm. Cloth.

£20.00Explores the C. C. Wang family collection, one of the finest collections in private hands, through an exhibition of some of its works atthe Metropolitan Museum in New York. Includes The Riverbank, attributed to the 10th century painter Dong Yuan. The book spans sevencenturies of painting history and presents an in-depth history of The Riverbank. All paintings exhibited are shown in colour. Now fi-nally available.

100 Hearn, Maxwell et al: LANDSCAPES CLEAR AND RADIANT. The Art of WangHui (1632-1717). New York, 2008. 235 pp. Colour and b/w illustrations throughout.31x23 cm. Cloth. £40.00Produced to accompany an exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum in New York, this is the first com-prehensive study of the painter in English accompanied by much illustration of his work.

101 Hearn, Maxwell K: HOW TO READ CHINESE PAINTINGS. New York, 2008.184 pp. 175 colour plates. 30x24 cm. Paper. £18.00Analyses 36 masterpieces of Chinese painting and calligraphy from the collection of the Metropoli-tan Museum of Art in order to understand and clarify the meaning of the works discussed.

102 Ho, W. et al: EIGHT DYNASTIES OF CHINESE PAINTING. The Collections ofthe Nelson Gallery-Atkins Museum and Cleveland Museum. Cleveland, 1980. lvi,408 pp. 286 illustrations, 8 colour plates. Bibliography, artist list, index. 31x24 cm.Cloth. £20.00Essays followed by an extensive catalogue of over 280 items with detailed descriptions. The paintings in these two museums rankamong the most important in the West. Essays also by S. Lee, L. Sickman & M. Wilson.

103 Ho, Wai-kam & Smith, Judith G. ed: THE CENTURY OF TUNG CH’I-CH’ANG (1555-1636). Kansas City,1992. 475; 448 pp. 754 illustrations including 300 colour plates. Maps, bibliography. 2 vols. 35x29 cm. Cloth.

£100.00The first major exhibition and catalogue of the work of an important and influential figure in Chinese art covering painting and cal-ligraphy, with extensive biographical, chronological and critical material and essays by many eminent scholars. An excellent (andweighty) reference. Hardback edition.

104 Hyland, Alice M: THE LITERATI VISION: SIXTEENTH CENTURY WU SCHOOL PAINTING ANDCALLIGRAPHY. Memphis, 1984. 104 pp. 8 colour plates, 83 b/w illustrations. Bibliography. 31x23 cm. Paper.

£20.00Fifty paintings by thirteen different artists document the history of the Wu school, active in Suzhou during the sixteenth century.

105 Indianapolis Museum of Art: VIEWS FROM JADE TERRACE. Chinese Women Artists 1300-1912. Indiana,1988. 231 pp. 80 colour plates, 12 text figures. Bibliography, appendixes. 30x23 cm. Cloth. £35.00The first exhibition ever devoted to the painting of Chinese women artists.


106 INK PAINTINGS BY HONG KONG ARTISTS. Hong Kong, 1988. 173 pp. Numerous colour plates. 29x20 cm.Paper. £20.00Catalogue of an exhibition at the Hong Kong Museum of Art showing the work of numerous 20th century Hong Kong ink artists. Well-illustrated and with dual texts in Chinese and English.

107 Jackson, David: A HISTORY OF TIBETAN PAINTING. The Great Tibetan Painters and Their Traditions. Wien,1996. 432 pp. 60 colour illustrations, 190 b/w. 2 maps. Cloth. £60.00The first attempt at exploring the sacred paintings of Tibet from the mid-15th through 20th centuries on the basis of both the extantpaintings and the extensive written sources surviving in Tibetan language.

108 James, Frank: POEMS AND PAINTINGS OF THE ORIENT. New York, 1964. 128 pp. c. 30 b/w illustrations.31x24 cm. Cloth. £10.00Paintings and poems, mostly from China, come together in this book which seeks to provide a framework for the joint appreciation ofthese art forms.

109 Jao Tsung-I: PAINTINGS AND CALLIGRAPHY BY MING I-MIN. From the Chih-lo Lou Collection. HongKong, 1975. 229 pp. Chinese & English text. 84 b/w illustrations. Bibliography. 26x19 cm. Paper. £20.00Published to coincide with the Symposium on Ming loyalist artists (yimin), this is a catalogue of the exhibition at the Art Gallery ofthe Institute of Chinese Studies, Chinese University of Hong Kong.

110 Rogers, Howard: KAIKODO JOURNAL X. Ring of Fire: The Art of Wucius Wong. New York, 1998. 77 pp. 28colour plates, 4 b/w illustrations. 30x21 cm. Paper. £10.00Catalogue from Kaikodo Gallery of a sales exhibition of the work of Wucius Wong. With essays by Wucius Wong and Arnold Chang.

111 Kao Mayching: PAINTINGS BY GUANGDONG ARTISTS. Guangdong Painting Series 1. Hong Kong, 1986.87 pp. 40 colour plates. 36x25 cm. Paper. £15.00Features forty paintings, mostly in small-format (fan and album leaves), ranging in date from late Ming to the modern period. Mainlyfrom the collection of the Art Gallery at the Chinese University in Hong Kong.

112 Karlsson, Kim et al. ed: ECCENTRIC VISIONS — THE WORLDS OF LUO PING. Zurich, 2009. 304 pp.266 colour plates. 31x23 cm. Boards. £30.00Copiously-illustrated catalogue of an excellent exhibition held at the Museum Rietberg in Zurich (and later travelling to the Metropoli-tan Museum in New York) showing the work of the Qing dynasty painter, Luo Ping. The exhibition comprises major loans from Chi-nese museums, many paintings being shown for the first time. Exhibits also came from Japanese museums and other public and privatecollections. Accompanying essays by leading scholars. A major addition to the literature on this painter. Recommended.

113 Kim, Hongnam: THE LIFE OF A PATRON. Zhou Lianggong (1612-1672) and the Painters of 17th CenturyChina. New York, 1996. 223 pp. 80 colour illustrations and over 70 b/w illustrations. Paper. £20.00An exhibition describing Zhou Lianggong’s legacy to the study of 17th century Chinese painting. Zhou supported contemporary paintersand seal carvers and wrote their biographies. The catalogue provides much new information on the life of this interesting man.

114 Kudo Naotaro: CHINESE LANDSCAPE PAINTING AND NATURE POETRY. Tokyo, n.d. 75, 5 pp. 21x15 cm.Paper. £10.00An article tracing resemblances between Li He and Keats.

115 Kuo, Jason C: THE AUSTERE LANDSCAPE: THE PAINTINGS OF HUNG-JEN. Taibei, 1990. xxiii, 264 pp.283 illustrations. Notes, bibliography, index. 27x20 cm. Cloth. £25.00Hongren ranks as one of the most important painters of the seventeenth century. This is the first Western language monograph on thisfamous Anhui School painter.

116 Kuo, Jason et al: DISCOVERING CHINESE PAINTING. Dialogues with Art Historians. Dubuque, 2006. 272pp. 22x15 cm. Paper. £60.00The art historians include James Cahill, Craig Clunas, Michael Sullivan and others. Second edition.

117 Kwo Da-Wei: CHINESE BRUSHWORK IN CALLIGRAPHY AND PAINTING. Its History, Aesthetics andTechniques. London, 1991. 224 pp. 144 illustrations. 29 cm. Paper. £15.00Dr Kwo discusses the four main periods of brushwork development, its aesthetic roots, components and styles, and techniques ofbrushwork, tools and strokes, etc.

118 Lai, T. C: CHINESE PAINTING. Its mystic essence. Hong Kong, 1974. x, 246 pp. Numerous b/w illustrations.Index, glossary. 22x15 cm. Cloth. £10.00Most of the paintings illustrated are from the collections of the National Palace Museum, the Shanghai Museum, the Tianjin Museum,the Liaoning Museum and the Nanjing Museum.

119 Lai, T. C: CHINESE POETRY. Hong Kong, 1972. 78 pp. Calligraphy and b/w illustrations throughout. 22x15 cm.Cloth. £10.00A collection of Chinese poetry from the Tang to the Qing.

120 Lauer, Uta: A MASTER OF HIS OWN. The Calligraphy of the Chan Abbot Zhongfeng Mingben (1262-1323).Studien zur Ostasiatischen Schriftkunst, Band 5. Stuttgart, 2002. 164 pp. 43 plates. Index. 24x17 cm. Paper.

£20.00First critical — and well-illustrated — biography of the highly influential Chan (Zen) calligrapher who created an entirely new andunorthodox style of calligraphy. Erudite.

121 Lawton, Thomas: CHINESE FIGURE PAINTING. Washington, 1973. 246 pp. 59 illustrations, many in colour.Notes, index. 31x24 cm. Cloth. £20.00A comprehensive study of this little known genre, issued in connection with an exhibition at the Freer Gallery.


122 Lee Chunyi: HIDDEN MEANINGS OF LOVE AND DEATH IN CHINESE PAINTING. Selections from theMarilyn and Roy Papp Collection. Chicago, 2013. 95 pp. Colour text illustrations. 30x22 cm. Wrappers. £15.00Catalogue of an exhibition at the Phoenix Art Museum exploring the themes of love and death in Chinese painting — a little-studiedtheme. A total of 29 paintings illustrated and discussed.

123 Lee Dongju: THE BEAUTY OF OLD KOREAN PAINTINGS. A History and an Appreciation. London, 2005.208 pp. Colour illustrations throughout. 30x22 cm. Boards. £20.00A well-illustrated authoritative history and discussion of Korean painting by an eminent Korean art historian. First published in Ko-rean — this is the English translation.

124 Lee, Sherman E: CHINESE LANDSCAPE PAINTING. New York, 1962. 159 pp. 8 plates in colour, 108 b/willustrations. Bibliography, index. 26x19 cm. Half-cloth. £15.00Catalogue of 137 Chinese landscape paintings lent by American and foreign museums for an exhibition at the Cleveland Museum ofArt that has become known as a good survey of Chinese painting. Second edition, extensively revised and with additional illustrations.

125 Li Chu-tsing and Watt, James ed: THE CHINESE SCHOLAR’S STUDIO. Artistic Life in the Late Ming Period.London, 1987. 240 pp. 188 illustrations, 60 in colour. 31x23 cm. Cloth. £65.00130 objects from the Shanghai Museum, exploring the world of the 17th century scholar-artist. An excellent catalogue of an exhibi-tion held at the Asia Society, New York. Good copy with dustjacket.

126 Li Chu-tsing et al: LANDSCAPE PAINTINGS BY KWANGTUNG MASTERS DURING THE MING &CH’ING PERIODS. Art Gallery Publications No. 6. Hong Kong, 1973. 20 pp. English and 52 pp. Chinese text.plus c. 80 b/w illustrations. 26x19 cm. Paper. Wear to spine. £30.00Exhibition catalogue from the Art Gallery at the Institute of Chinese Studies at the Chinese University of Hong Kong showing, amongothers, some 70 paintings from the Ren Youwen collection.

127 Li Shi ed: GUGONG SHUHUA GUAN 1-9. (The Calligraphy and Painting Gallery of the Palace Museum: Parts1-9). 故宮書畫館 1-9. Beijing, 2008-10. c.200 pp. per volume. Colour plates throughout each volume. B/w textillustrations. 9 vols. 32x25 cm. Boards. £500.00Complete set of nine catalogues of the ongoing series of exhibitions held in the Wuyingdian exhibition hall in the Forbidden City inBeijing showing highlights of Chinese painting and calligraphy from across the ages in the Gugong Museum’s holdings, from the ear-liest examples through to the early 20th century. Many of the exhibits in this and subsequent exhibitions were in the former imperialcollection. All catalogues illustrated throughout in fine colour and described. Some of the catalogues have essays in English but thetext is predominantly Chinese. A couple of the catalogues are now out—of-print.

128 Liang Baiquan ed: NANJING BOWUYUAN CANG ZHONGGUO XIAOXIANGHUA XUANJI. SelectedChinese Portrait Paintings from the Nanjing Museum. 南京博物館藏中國肖像畫選集。梁白泉主編. HongKong, 1993. 188 pp. 113 colour plates. Chronology and index of artists. Chinese and English text. 35x26 cm. Cloth. £80.00This publication helps to provide an excellent source of reference of Chinese portrait paintings on which there is still relatively littlepublished. The catalogue was compiled from the collection of the Nanjing Museum. Illustrated throughout in colour.

129 Liang Baiquan ed: NANJING BOWUYUAN HUANIAOHUA XUANJI. Selected Chinese Bird-and-FlowerPaintings from the Nanjing Museum. 南京博物院藏中國花鳥畫選集. Hong Kong, 1993. 196 pp. 132 colourplates. Chronology, index of artists. 35x26 cm. Cloth. £90.00An album consisting of one hundred bird-and-flower paintings by 64 artists from the Song to the Qing dynasties. Selected from thou-sands included in the collections of the Nanjing Museum. Text in English and Chinese.

130 LIAONING SHENG BOWUGUAN CANGHUA. Liaoning Museum Collection of Paintings. 遼寧省博物館藏畫. Gems of Paintings in Chinese Museums. Shanghai, 1999. 146 pp. 100 colour plates. 38x27 cm. Cloth. £45.00100 masterpieces from the Liaoning Museum’s painting collection dating from the eastern Jin dynasty to the present day. With goodcolour plates and informative descriptions. Reprint in a reduced format of the deluxe volume first published in 1983. Dual texts in Chi-nese and English.

131 Lin Xiuwei ed: YANGZHOU HUAPAI. (Painters of the Yangzhou School). 揚州畫派。林秀薇主編. Taibei,1985. 240 pp. Colour and b/w illustrations throughout. 30x22 cm. Cloth, dustjacket. £40.00A good survey of the Qing dynasty school of painting that flourished in the cultural centre of Yangzhou in China. Published in Taiwan,this book show many extremely fine paintings by members of the Yangzhou school presumably in the collection of the National PalaceMuseum. Text in Chinese.

132 Lin Xuwei: QINGCHU ZHENGTONG HUAPAI. Early Ch’ing Painting: The ‘Orthodox’ Masters. 清初正統畫派。林秀薇主編. Taibei, 1985. 131 pp. Colour illustrations throughout, a good number full page. 30x22 cm.Cloth. £20.00

133 Little, Stephen ed: NEW SONGS ON ANCIENT TUNES. 19th-20th Century Chinese Paintings and Calligraphyfrom the Richard Fabian Collection. Honolulu, 2007. 639 pp. 425 colour plates, many full page. 30x22 cm. Cloth. £60.00Large and heavy catalogue of an exhibition at the Honolulu Academy of Arts showing Chinese painting and calligraphy from 1850onwards to the near present day. All pieces come from the collection of Richard Fabian. Contains many works by leading artists fromthroughout this period. Illustrated throughout in colour and described in detail. Good introductory essays.

134 Liu, Cary Y., Dora C. Y. Ching and Judith G. Smith ed: CHARACTER AND CONTEXT IN CHINESECALLIGRAPHY. Princeton, 1999. 296 pp. Paper. £20.00Papers from a symposium on calligraphy held at the Art Museum of Princeton University. Contributors include: Hue Rende, UtaLauer, Huiwen Lu, Harold Mok, Michael Nylan, Shih Shou-ch’ien, Peter C. Sturman, and Eugene Y. Wang.


135 Loehr, Max: THEMES AND VARIATIONS: A WINTER LANDSCAPE IN THE FREER GALLERY ANDRELATED VERSIONS. Ars Orientalis IX. N.p., 1973. pp. 131-136 and 4 pp. b/w plates. 29x22 cm. Paper.

£10.00136 Luen Chai Curios Store: CHINESE FIGURE PAINTINGS — CONTEMPORARY VISIONS. Hong Kong,

1991. 120 pp. Numerous coloured & b/w illustrations. English/Chinese text. 29x22 cm. Paper. £25.00Catalogue of an exhibition reviewing the development of ink figure painting from the beginning of this century up to the early l990s,commenting on the influence of Western techniques and ideas. The 80 artists represented come from all over mainland China andHong Kong.

137 Luen Chai Curios Store: THE INFINITE PALETTE. Modern Chinese Painting Exhibition. Hong Kong, 1993.152 pp. 94 colour plates. 29x22 cm. Cloth. £30.00The fifth thematic exhibition by this gallery aims at exploring the new trends and transformations in modern Chinese painting. The bestrepresentative works by selected artists from the 20th century have been chosen for their use of colours.

138 Luen Chai Curios Store: METAMORPHOSIS. Contemporary Chinese Paintings. 蛻變：現代中國水墨畫. HongKong, 1990. 157 pp. Colour illustrations throughout. 28x21 cm. Paper. £25.00Catalogue of an exhibition in Hong Kong of the work of numerous contemporary Chinese artists who work in ink or ink and colour.A good selection of fine paintings. Biographies of artists also given. Dual texts in Chinese and English.

139 Luen Chai Curios Store: THE VERDANT CLIFF. Chinese Paintings by Fourteen Celebrated Taiwanese Artists.Hong Kong, 1992. 128 pp. Numerous b/w & coloured illustrations. English/Chinese text. 28x21 cm. Paper.

£25.00Catalogue of an exhibition in Hong Kong of the work of fourteen well-known Taiwanese painters who have gained a reputation abroad.58 pictures are represented and there are full biographies of the artists in question.

140 McCausland, Shane & Ling Lizhong: TELLING IMAGES OF CHINA. Narrative and Figure Paintings, 15th-20thCentury, from the Shanghai Museum. London, 2010. 159 pp. Colour plates throughout, many full page. 28x24 cm.Wrappers. £15.00Catalogue of an exhibition at the Chester Beatty Library in Dublin showing 38 fine Ming and Qing dynasty examples of figure paint-ing from the Shanghai Museum. Good and lengthy introductory essays followed by detailed descriptions and illustration of the exhibits.

141 McCausland, Shane: FIRST MASTERPIECE OF CHINESE PAINTING. The Admonitions Scroll. London,2003. 143 pp. Colour and b/w illustrations throughout. 21x21 cm. Cloth. £15.00Describes the history and importance of this seldom-seen treasure of the British Museum — the Admonitions Scroll, traditionally at-tributed to Gu Kaizhi (c. AD 345-406).

142 McNair, Amy: UPRIGHT BRUSH. Yan Zhenqing’s Calligraphy and Song Literati Politics. Honolulu, 1998. xvii,177 pp. c. 20 b/w illustrations 25x17 cm. Paper. £20.00A biography of Yan Zhenqing which also places him within the context of the literati politics of the time. A sophisticated and illumi-nating study.

143 Meishu Guan: BIMO GUANGYING: QU LEILEI. Brush Ink Light Shadow. 筆墨光影：曲磊磊. Beijing,2011. 85 pp. Colour illustrations throughout. 25x26 cm. Paper. £25.00Catalogue of an exhibition held at the Meishuguan (NAMOC) in Beijing showing recent work by the London-based Chinese artist, QuLeilei. Includes nudes, portraits and paintings of hands. It seems that this catalogue was never commercially available. Introductionsand captions in English. Main text in Chinese.

144 MING DAI JIN MING WU WEI HUAJI. (The Paintings of the Ming Dynasty Artists Dai Jin and Wu Wei). 明戴進明吳偉畫集. Zhongguo Gudai Huihua Mingzuo Jizhen. Tianjin, 2000. 8 pp. text and 86 pp. full colour plates.38x27 cm. Cloth. £60.00A well-produced work that shows 49 works by Dai Jin and 37 works by Wu Wei, both famous Ming dynasty artists, in full page colourplates. The paintings come from various Chinese museums. In Chinese only.

145 MING QIU YING HUAJI (SHI FU). (Paintings of the Ming Dynasty Artist Qiu Ying (Shi Fu). 明仇英畫集（實父）. Zhongguo Gudai Huihua Mingzuo Jizhen. Tianjin, 2001. 8 pp. text plus c. 150 pp. colour plates. 38x27cm. Cloth. £65.00152 works by the famous Ming artist, Qiu Ying, are here reproduced in full page colour plates. An excellent visual reference for thispainter. The paintings are from collections in mainland China and Taiwan. Text in Chinese.

146 MING TANG YIN (TANG BOHU) HUAJI. (Paintings by Tang Yin). 唐寅（唐伯虎）畫集. Zhongguo GudaiHuihua Mingzuo Jizhen. Tianjin, 2001. 6 pp. text and 116 pp. colour plates. 38x27 cm. Cloth. £55.00A very pleasant work with good colour plates showing 109 works by the famous Ming dynasty painter Tang Yin. Paintings come frommainland China and Taiwan collections. Text in Chinese.

147 Mullany, Francis: SYMBOLISM IN KOREAN INK BRUSH PAINTING. Folkestone, 2006. xiv, 414 pp. Over200 colour and b/w illustrations. 25x18 cm. Cloth. £50.00Explores the heritage of Korean brush and ink painting, from the mid 17th century onwards to modern times. The majority of the bookconsiders the paintings themselves, with a smaller section at the end that alphabetically explores meanings and references in these paint-ings. Much of this symbolism cross refers to Chinese painting.

148 Munakata Kiyohiko: SACRED MOUNTAINS IN CHINESE ART. Baltimore, 1991. 260 pp. 202 illustrations, 54in colour. 35x25 cm. Paper. £25.00This collection of paintings, mirrors, jades, bronzes — all reproducing an image of a mountain — were displayed during 1991 at theKrannert Art Museum and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.


149 Murray, Julia: LAST OF THE MANDARINS. Chinese Calligraphy and Painting from the F. Y. Chang Collection.Cambridge, 1987. xi, 93 pp. 37 plates, 13 in colour. 28x21 cm. Paper. £10.0037 primarily 20th-century examples of painting and calligraphy, and some 18th- and 19th-century works exhibited at the Arthur M.Sackler Museum.

150 Murray, Julia K: MA HEZHI AND THE ILLUSTRATION OF THE BOOK OF ODES. Cambridge South AsianStudies 52. Cambridge, 1992. 360 pp. 128 halftones, 4 line drawings, 8 tables. 26x20 cm. Cloth. £40.00First comprehensive study of the imperially sponsored set of handscrolls transcribing and illustrating the Shijing. All extant scrolls aresystematically catalogued, and ‘original’ scrolls have been separated from ‘copies’.

151 Museu de Arte de Macau: NANZONG BEIDOU: DONG QICHANG YISHU SHUHUA. The Light of theSouthern School: Paintings and Calligraphies by Dong Qichang. 南宗北斗：董其昌藝術書畫. Macau, 2005. 513,113 pp. Colour plates throughout. 12 foldouts. B/w text illustrations. 4 vols. 36x27 cm. Cloth & paper. £275.00Massive and heavy commemorative four volume catalogue of an exhibition at the Museum of Art in Macau of a loan exhibition of 120masterpieces of painting and calligraphy by the late Ming master, Dong Qichang, from the superb holdings of the Gugong Museumin Beijing. Illustrated throughout in colour. Dual texts in Chinese, English and Portuguese. Difficult to obtain.

152 Nakata Yujiro: CHINESE CALLIGRAPHY. A History of the Art of China. Tokyo, 1983. 278 pp. 289 illustrations,95 in colour. Chronology, index. 31x21 cm. Cloth. £20.00A comprehensive treatment of Chinese calligraphy, by eleven leading Japanese scholars. Definitely one of the best-illustrated generalintroductions.

153 Nakata, Yujiro: THE ART OF JAPANESE CALLIGRAPHY. Heibonsha Survey of Japanese Art Vol. 27. Tokyo,1983. 172 pp. 187 examples all illustrated, 23 in colour. 24x19 cm. Cloth. £15.00Profusely illustrated. In Japan, as in China, calligraphy has always been considered to be one of the most important art forms. Pro-fessor Nakata’s book gives a much-needed introduction to this subject. Third printing.

154 National Palace Museum: CAO CHONG HUA TEZHAN TULU. Special Exhibition of the Insect Painting. 草蟲畫特展圖錄. Taibei, 1986. 82 pp. 21 plates and illustrations in colour, 28 in b/w. 148 colour details. 30x21 cm.Paper. £30.0037 paintings of insects are illustrated in full and detail, over half being early works from the Five Dynasties to the Yuan. Text in Chi-nese mainly, but with English résumé and list of contents and plates.

155 National Palace Museum: CHUN JING SHANSHUI HUA TEZHAN TULU. Exhibition of Landscape Paintingsof the Scenes of Spring. 春景山水畫特展圖錄. Taibei, 1987. 64 pp. 36 plates, 17 in colour. 30x21 cm. Paper.

£30.0036 paintings are shown. The first in a series of exhibitions depicting paintings of the four seasons. From the holdings of the NationalPalace Museum. Main text in Chinese, with summary and list of plates in English.

156 National Palace Museum: DIANFAN YU LIUCHUAN: FAN KUAN JI QI CHUANPAI. Exemplar of Heritage:Fan Kuan and His Influence in Chinese Painting. 典範與流傳：范寬及其傳派. Taibei, 2015. 368 pp. Colourplates throughout. 29x21 cm. Wrappers. £80.00Catalogue of an exhibition at the National Palace Museum in Taibei showing the masterpiece by the Northern Song painter Fan Kuan:‘Travellers among Mountains and Streams’ and related later paintings. Examines this famous painting in detail and its influence onlater painting in China. Introductions, abstract of essay, introductions to each section and detailed captions to plates in English. Fullertext in Chinese.

157 National Palace Museum: DONG JING SHANSHUI HUA TEZHAN TULU. Special Exhibition of WinterLandscapes. 冬景山水畫特展圖錄. Taibei, 1989. 74 pp. 30 colour plates, 2 foldouts. 30x21 cm. Paper. £35.00One in a series of very pleasing painting exhibitions depicting the four seasons held by the National Palace Museum in the late 1980s.Shows 29 paintings dating from the Six Dynasties to the Ming, primarily earlier (Tang, Song and Yuan) material from this wonderfulcollection. Main text in Chinese with summary and list of plates in English.

158 National Palace Museum: DONG QICHANG FANG OUYANG XIU QIAN[ZI]WEN. (Dong Qichang’sReproduction of Ouyang Xiu’s ‘Thousand Character Classic’). Taibei, 1997. 24 folding leaves, accordion-style. 24pp. colour facsimiles. 30x17 cm. Brocade. £25.00A good facsimile reproduction of Dong Qichang’s work, itself being a rendition of the well-known calligraphic model, the ‘ThousandCharacter Classic’ as written by the Song dynasty literary figure Ouyang Xiu.

159 National Palace Museum: THE FOUR GREAT MASTERS OF THE YUAN. Yuan Si Dajia. Taibei, 1975. 92 pp.English & 215 pp. Chinese text. Chronology. Over 100 fullpage b/w plates, some folding. 27x20 cm. Cloth.

£75.00Catalogue of a famous exhibition at the National Palace Museum. The four masters are Huang Gongwang, Wu Zhen, Ni Can, and WangMeng. The paintings all from the Museum’s superb collection.

160 National Palace Museum: HAO DUAN WAN XIANG: ZHU YUNMING SHUFA TE ZHAN. Myriad Forms inthe Tip of a Brush: The Art of Calligraphy by Zhu Yunming. 毫端萬象：祝允明書法特展. Taibei, 2013. 385 pp.Colour plates throughout. 30x21 cm. Wrappers. £85.00Catalogue of an exhibition at the National Palace Museum comprehensively exploring the relatively little-known Ming dynasty cal-ligrapher, Zhu Yunming (1461-1527). Illustrated throughout with many examples of his fine work. Undoubtedly the prime reference onthis artist. Introductions and list of plates in English. Main text in Chinese.

161 National Palace Museum: HUA MEI MINGPIN TEZHAN. Special Exhibition of Plum Blossom Paintings. 畫梅名品特展. Taibei, 1991. 113 pp. 43 paintings illustrated in full colour, many with details. 31x22 cm. Paper.

£35.00Catalogue of an exhibition at the National Palace Museum showing beautiful paintings of plum blossoms dating from the Song dynastythrough to the Republic. Nearly all the paintings from the former Chinese imperial collection. Introduction and list of plates in En-glish. Main text in Chinese.


162 National Palace Museum: HUIFENG HECHANG: ZHESHAN JICUI TEZHAN. The Art of a Gentle Breeze:A Special Exhibition of Painting and Calligraphy on Folding fans. 惠風和暢：摺扇集萃特展. Taibei, 2016. 155pp. Numerous full page colour plates. 29x29 cm. Wrappers. £60.00Catalogue of an exhibition at the National Palace Museum of fans superbly-painted with beautiful landscape scenes, flowers, birds,animals and also some with fine calligraphy. The fans date from the Ming and Qing dynasties and many are painted by famous artists.Illustrated throughout in colour. Good amount of text in English, including introductions and captions and descriptions of plates.Fuller text in Chinese.

163 National Palace Museum: LUOHAN HUA. Catalogue for the Exhibition on Paintings of Lohans. 羅漢畫. Taibei,1990. 96 pp. 59 plates and illustrations in colour, 13 in b/w. 30x21 cm. Cloth. £35.00Thirty one paintings of lohans from this wonderful collection are illustrated in full and in detail. Text mainly in Chinese, but with En-glish résumé.

164 National Palace Museum: MAN TING FANG: LIDAI HUAHUI MINGPIN TEZHAN. Fragrance Fills theCourtyard: Chinese Flower Paintings Through the Ages. 滿庭芳：歷代花卉名品特展. Taibei, 2011. 230 pp.Colour plates throughout. 29x30 cm. Wrappers. £50.00Catalogue of a most pleasing exhibition at the National Palace Museum in Taibei showing highlights of Chinese flower paintings fromtheir superb collection. The paintings date from the Song to the Qing and include works by many famous masters. Illustrated through-out in colour showing all 90 paintings. Dual texts in Chinese and English.

165 National Palace Museum: MASTERPIECES OF CHINESE PAINTING IN THE NATIONAL PALACEMUSEUM. Masterpieces in the National Palace Museum. Taibei, 1970. 114 pp. Chinese, Japanese & English text.50 colour plates. 28x22 cm. Cloth. £30.00Features paintings from the Tang to the Qing by Fan Kuan, Guo Xi, Zhao Mengfu, Wang Meng, Ni Can, Tang Yin, Shen Zhou and oth-ers. Selections from an unrivalled collection.

166 National Palace Museum: MING LU ZHI ZUOPIN ZHANLAN TULU. Exhibition of Selected Works by theMing Painter Lu Zhih. 明陸治作品展覽圖錄. Taibei, 1992. 90 pp. including 8 pp. English text. 34 colour platesand illustrations. Seal reproductions. 31x22 cm. Cloth. £20.0034 paintings by Lu Zhi, including scroll, fan and album paintings, all illustrated in full and with a detail. All seals and signatures arereproduced.

167 National Palace Museum: MING SI DA JIA TE ZHAN: SHEN ZHOU. Four Great Masters of the Ming Dynasty:Shen Zhou. 明四大家特展：沈周. Taibei, 2014. 367 pp. Colour plates (many full page) throughout. 30x23 cm.Wrappers. £75.00Catalogue of a very fine exhibition at the National Palace Museum in Taibei showing outstanding works of painting and calligraphyby the Ming dynasty artist, Shen Zhou, from the Museum’s collection and, therefore, the former Chinese imperial collection. Dividedinto three sections: The Origins of Shen Zhou’s Art; Shen Zhou’s Art of Calligraphy; The Characteristic of Shen Zhou’s Painting. Fiftypaintings, scrolls and albums by the masters are illustrated in fine colour plates. Accompanied by 19 associated works by other artistsand calligraphers. Preface, brief introductions to each section, list of contents and good descriptions of plates in English. Main textin Chinese.

168 National Palace Museum: MING SI DA JIA TE ZHAN: TANG YIN. Four Great Masters of the Ming Dynasty:Tang Yin. 明四大家特展：唐寅. Taibei, 2014. 361 pp. Colour plates (many full page) throughout. 30x23 cm.Wrappers. £75.00Catalogue of an excellent exhibition at the National Palace Museum in Taibei (and thus the former Chinese imperial collection) show-ing outstanding works of painting and calligraphy by the famous Ming dynasty artist, Tang Yin. Divided into a number of sections: Land-scape Painting and Theory; Ladies and Figures; Flowers, Bamboo and Rocks; The Art of Calligraphy . Preface, brief introductionsto each section, list of contents and good descriptions of plates in English. Main text in Chinese. A good addition to the literature onthis fine painter.

169 National Palace Museum: QING WANG YUANQI HUA SHANSHUI: DRAGON VEINS OF THELANDSCAPE. Special Exhibition of Hanging Scrolls of Wang Yuan-chi (1642-1715). Taibei, 1997. 168 pp. 82 pp.colour and 29 pp. b/w plates. 31x22 cm. Cloth. £35.00Catalogue to a special exhibition of the hanging scrolls of the Qing dynasty painter Wang Yuanqi depicting landscape themes. In Chi-nese but with 30 pages of text in English.

170 National Palace Museum: QIU JING SHANSHUI HUA TEZHAN TULU. Special Exhibition of AutumnLandscapes. 秋景山水畫特展圖錄. Taibei, 1989. 91 pp. 51 pp. colour plates. 30x21 cm. Paper. £35.00One in a series of very pleasing painting exhibitions depicting the four seasons held by the National Palace Museum in the late 1980s.Shows 35 paintings dating from the Five Dynasties to the Qing from the holdings of this wonderful collection. Main text in Chinesewith introduction and list of plates in English.

171 National Palace Museum: SONGCI TEZHAN MULU. Catalogue of a Special Exhibition of Sung-DynastyPorcelain. 宋瓷特展目錄. Taibei, 1978. 103 pp. 23 colour plates, 104 illustrations. Folding colour map of kilnsites. 25x24 cm. Paper. £50.00Scarce exhibition catalogue in English and Chinese showing the cream of the Song ceramic collection in the National Palace Museum.101 pieces are illustrated and described. Includes the Ru wares.

172 National Palace Museum: A SPECIAL EXHIBITION OF BLUE-AND-GREEN LANDSCAPE PAINTING.Qinglü Shanshui Hua Tezhan Tulu. 青綠山水畫特展圖錄. Taibei, 1995. 108 pp. 41 colour plates and illustrations.30x21 cm. Paper. £35.00Catalogue of an exhibition of paintings from the Tang to the Qing. Forty one paintings are shown, all from the fabulous collection ofthe National Palace Museum and thus the former Chinese imperial collection. English plate captions and résumé. Main text in Chi-nese.


173 National Palace Museum: A SPECIAL EXHIBITION OF THE BEAUTY OF CALLIGRAPHY. Shufa zhi MeiTezhan Tulu. Taibei, 1992. 100 pp. 34 calligraphies illustrated in full colour, many with details. 31x22 cm. Paper.

£30.00Pieces from the Museum’s superb collection have been selected to represent the different styles of calligraphy and the essence of cal-ligraphic beauty created by artists down the centuries. Text in Chinese.

174 National Palace Museum: SUYUAN YU TUOZHAN: LINGNAN HUAPAI TE ZHAN. Origins andDevelopments of the Lingnan School of Painting. 溯源與拓展：嶺南畫派特展. Taibei, 2013. 281 pp. Colourplates throughout. B/w text illustrations. 30x23 cm. Wrappers. £70.00Catalogue of an exhibition at the National Palace Museum showing 90 examples of Chinese painting by various artists belonging tothe Lingnan School which was centred on Guangdong province in South China. The Lingnan school began in the late 19th century andflourished into the Republic period in the early 20th century. The works predominantly by famous masters and from collections in Tai-wan together with major loans from the Guangzhou Museum of Art. A very fine selection. Illustrated throughout in colour. Introduc-tion, brief introductions to each section and captions to plates in English. Main text in Chinese.

175 National Palace Museum: WANG HUI HUALU. Catalogue of Wang Hui’s Painting in the Collection of theNational Palace Museum. 王翬畫錄. Taibei, 1970. 209 pp. Numerous plates illustrating 78 paintings. 27x20 cm.Cloth. £35.00Features landscapes and calligraphy by Wang Hui (1632-1717). Dual texts in Chinese and English.

176 National Palace Museum: WANMING BIANXINGZHUYI HUAJIA ZUOPIN ZHAN. Style Transformed: ASpecial Exhibition of Works by Five Late Ming Artists. 晚明變形主義畫家作品展. Taibei, 1977. 656 pp. Chinese& 139 pp. English text. Over 300 illustrations, 16 in colour. 31x22 cm. Cloth. £60.00The five painters are Ding Yunpeng, Wu Bin, Lan Ying, Cui Zizhong and Chen Hongshou. With five appendixes, including a bibliog-raphy and 100 inscriptions and seals. Extensive amount of English text. Bump to cover. Scarce.

177 National Palace Museum: WUPAI HUA JIUSHI NIAN ZHAN. Ninety Years of Wu School Painting. 吳派畫九十年展. Taibei, 1975. 37 pp. Chinese & 60 pp. English text, 240 plates, 16 in colour. 31x22 cm. Cloth. £50.00Features landscapes, animal paintings and calligraphy. Catalogue of an exhibition at the National Palace Museum in 1975.

178 National Palace Museum: XIAJING SHANSHUI HUA TEZHAN TULU. A Special Exhibition of SummerLandscape Paintings. 夏景山水畫特展圖錄. Taibei, 1991. 116 pp. 34 paintings illustrated in full colour, manywith details. 31x22 cm. Cloth. £35.00Another exhibition in the Museum’s series of seasons. The paintings date from the Song to the Qing. Introduction and list of plates inEnglish. Main text in Chinese.

179 National Palace Museum: XINGQIE SUIXING: QIANLONG NANXUN XINGLIXIANG ZHONG DESHUHUA. Travelling with Art: Painting and Calligraphy Accompanying the Qianlong Emperor’s Southern Tours.行篋隨行：乾隆南巡行李箱中的書畫. Taibei, 2017. 239 pp. Colour plates throughout, many full page. 30x21cm. Wrappers. £70.00Catalogue of a meticulously researched and deeply fascinating exhibition at the National Palace Museum in Taibei exploring thepaintings and calligraphy the Qing dynasty Qianlong Emperor took on his southern inspection tours. Divided into sections: ‘MakingPreparations for Travel’; ‘Art Appreciation in Qianlong’s Travels’; ‘Travelling Sources of Art’; ‘Fate in the Journey of Art’. Exam-ines paintings and albums prepared by court officials to inform and acquaint the Emperor with the places to be visited, also paintingsand calligraphy associated with the history, personalities and painters of areas en-route plus favourite paintings and albums that theEmperor liked to have with him. Illustrated throughout with superb paintings and calligraphy from the Song through to the Qing fromthe Museum’s collection, many inscribed by the Emperor. Near dual texts in Chinese and English. A groundbreaking effort. Recom-mended.

180 National Palace Museum: ZHUANG QIGUAI FEI RENJIAN: WU BIN DE HUIHUA SHIJIE. Fantastic andExtraordinary: The Realm of Wu Bin’s Painting. 狀奇怪非人間：吳彬的繪畫世界. Taibei, 2012. 223 pp. Colourplates throughout. 30x21 cm. Wrappers. £60.00Catalogue of an exhibition at the National Palace Museum in Taibei showing the fine work of this eccentric late Ming dynasty painterwho was heavily influenced by Buddhism. Much of his work contains Buddhist themes and deities but there is also a good represen-tation of landscape and bird-and-flower painting. A useful reference on the output of this little-published artist. List of contents, in-troduction and list of plates with brief descriptions in English. Main text in Chinese.

181 Nezu Institute of Fine Arts: CATALOGUE OF SOUTHERN SONG PAINTINGS: ELEGANT AND NOBLEIN SOUL. Tokyo, 2004. 193 pp. 68 items illustrated in a larger number of colour plates. B/w text illustrations. Maps,chronology. 30x22 cm. Paper. £80.00Catalogue of a major exhibition of Song paintings and some calligraphy from Japanese museums and private collections held at theNezu Institute of Fine Arts in Tokyo. 68 exquisite items are illustrated in colour and described. Includes paintings that are rarely seenin public, for example Huizong’s ‘Dove and Peach Blossoms’ will be on view for the first time in ten years. Introduction and list of platesin English, otherwise Japanese text only. See the review in Orientations magazine May 2004. Now out of print.

182 NI ZAN. 倪�. Zhongguo Hua Da Shi Jingdian Xilie Congshu. Beijing, 2011. 2 pp. text plus 68 pp. full page colourplates. 28x28 cm. Paper. £25.00Given Ni Zan’s stature and fame as a Yuan dynasty painter of exquisite scenes, relatively little is published on him. This work shows25 paintings and one album in their entirety and some also with close-up detail. Name of painting is given but not museum location.Illustrated throughout with fine colour plates. Text in Chinese.

183 Oh, Ju-seok: THE ART OF KIM HONG-DO. A Great Court Painter of 18th Century Korea. Chicago, 2005. 272pp. Colour illustrations. 25x18 cm. Paper. £20.00Paints a portrait of one of Korea’s greatest painters, Kim Hong-do, active during the Joseon era. Best-known for his genre paintings,Kim mastered all types of painting and calligraphy. Contains much new research material, introduces 50 newly-discovered items andretranslates existing material. Revised and corrected version of the 1998 Korean original.


184 Pacific Asia Museum: BEYOND THE OPEN DOOR. Contemporary paintings from the People’s Republic ofChina. California, 1987. 75 pp. 46 colour illustrations. 28x22 cm. Paper. £10.00Approximately 50 contemporary paintings by various artists, some from rural, others from urban areas. Catalogue of an exhibitionheld at the Pacific Asia Museum in 1987.

185 Phoenix Art Museum: JOURNEYS ON PAPER AND SILK. The Roy and Marilyn Papp Collection of ChinesePainting. Phoenix, 1998. 176 pp. Illustrations throughout. 30x21 cm. Paper. £20.00Exhibition showing the recent acquisitions of Ming and Qing paintings in the Papp collection. Clearly-illustrated with informative de-scriptions.

186 Plum Blossoms (International) Ltd: PROMISES. Yang Yanwen. 山川言志：楊延文. Hong Kong, 1991. 255 pp.122 plates in colour. 35x26 cm. Cloth. £50.00Sumptuous dealer’s catalogue of the modern Chinese painter’s work in ink and colour, combining both Western and Chinese styles. Astudent of Wu Guanzhong. Dual texts in Chinese and English.

187 Pohl, Karl-Heinz: CHENG PAN-CH’IAO. Poet, Painter and Calligrapher. Monumenta Serica Monograph SeriesXXI. Nettetal, 1990. xviii, 269 pp. 28 b/w illustrations. 24x16 cm. Paper. £30.00Originally presented as a doctoral dissertation in Toronto in 1982, now revised and updated, this is the first monograph on the renownedZheng Xie (Zheng Banqiao), one of the Eight Eccentrics of Yangzhou.

188 Qi Yuan: WANG DUO SHUHUA BIANNIAN TUMU. (Illustrated Chronological Conspectus of the Calligraphyand Painting of Wang Duo). 王鐸書畫編年圖目。齊淵編. Beijing, 2004. 6, 20, 357 pp. Including 20 pp. ofcolour plates and the rest of the pages with b/w plates throughout, with 33 pp. of reproductions of seals andsignatures. 30x22 cm. Cloth. £65.00We cannot recall seeing such a well-illustrated, systematic treatment of the work of an individual calligrapher. Paintings are included,but Wang Duo (1592-1652) is overwhelmingly known and appreciated as one of the transitional period masters of a vibrant and sin-uous cursive style of calligraphy. This book provides a chronological assemblage of accessible pieces, well-reproduced and adequatelydocumented. The text is minimal but there is apparatus, and the collection of seal impressions and signatures enhances a work that isnotable for its serious arrangement, offering a uniquely useful overview of the artist’s work. In Chinese.

189 Rogers, Howard & Lee, Sherman E: MASTERWORKS OF MING AND QING PAINTING FROM THEFORBIDDEN CITY. Pennsylvania, 1988. 207 pp. 76 colour plates, 2 maps, bibliography, index. 30x23 cm. Paper. £20.00Catalogue of an American museum tour of paintings from the Palace Museum in Beijing.

190 Rorex, Robert A. & Fong, Wen: EIGHTEEN SONGS OF A NOMAD FLUTE. The Story of the Lady Wen-chi:a 14th Century Handscroll. New York, 1974. 88 pp. Many illustrations, some in colour, 1 folding. Notes. 26x28 cm.Cloth, slipcase. £20.00From the Metropolitan Museum collection, this book contains an introduction, commentary and translation of poems on a paintingdepicting the life of the Lady Wenji among the nomad tribes.

191 Rowley, George: PRINCIPLES OF CHINESE PAINTING. Princeton, 1974. 85 pp. text and 47 b/w plates. Listof terms & sources. Index. 28x21 cm. Paper. £15.00One of the better early accounts, still useful. Revised edition.

192 Ruitenbeek, Klaas: DISCARDING THE BRUSH — GAO QIPEI AND THE ART OF CHINESE FINGERPAINTING. Amsterdam, 1993. 342 pp. 100 illustrations, mainly in colour. Notes, seals, bibliography. 31x26 cm.Paper. £40.00Catalogue for the first exhibition on Gao Qipei and the art of Chinese finger painting outside of China, with loans from Europe, Japanand the United States and many unique works from the PR of China. Shown are 75 large scrolls and 125 album leaves, more than halfby Gao. In English and Dutch. Paperback edition.

193 Shanghai Museum: SHANGHAI BOWUGUAN ZHONGGUO LIDAI HUIHUA GUAN. Shanghai MuseumChinese Painting Gallery. 上海博物館中國歷代繪畫館. Shanghai, n.d. 48 pp. Colour illustrations throughout.29x19 cm. Paper. £10.00Guide to the Shanghai Museum’s fine collection of Chinese painting with examples from the Tang period to the 20th Century shownin good colour illustrations. In Chinese and English.

194 SHEN ZHOU SHUHUA JI. (The Paintings of Shen Zhou). 沈州書畫集. Tianjin, 1996. 332 pp., 320 pp. Over 600pp. colour plates. 2 vols. 38x27 cm. Cloth, slipcases. £195.00A magnificent two volume work on the paintings of Shen Zhou with superb quality colour plates showing masterpieces from variousmuseums. Text in Chinese only. Long out-of-print and hard to find.

195 Sheng Tianye ed: SONGDAI RENWU. (Song Dynasty Figure Paintings). 宋代人物。盛天曄主編. Wuhan,2011. 122; 118 pp. Full page colour plates throughout. 2 vols. 42x29 cm. Wrappers. £70.00Large format two-volume work showing Song dynasty figure paintings on album leaves and scrolls. Good descriptions accompany butname of holding collection seldom given. Text in Chinese.

196 Sheng Tianye ed: SONGDAI SHANSHUI. (Song Dynasty Landscape Paintings). 宋代山水。盛天曄主編.Wuhan, 2011. 128; 134 pp. Full page colour plates throughout. 2 vols. 42x29 cm. Wrappers. £70.00Large format two-volume work showing Song dynasty landscape paintings on album leaves and scrolls. Good descriptions accompanybut name of holding collection seldom given. Text in Chinese.

197 SHI LU SHUHUA JI. Shi Lu Painting and Calligraphy. 石魯書畫集. Beijing, 1990. 304 pp. Full page colour andb/w plates throughout. 29x22 cm. Boards. £80.00A fine survey of the accomplished work of the 20th century master, Shi Lu. Includes landscapes, bird-and-flower paintings and his won-derful edgy calligraphy. Illustrated throughout and with dual texts in Chinese and English. Includes commentary and tributes from fel-low Chinese artists of the time. Scarce.


198 SHIKO MUNAKATA GEIGYO DAI IN. (The Art and Essence of Munakata Shiko). 棟方志攻藝業大韻. Tokyo,1970. 265 pp. c. 200 pp. of colour and b/w plates. A number of folding colour plates. A separate envelope holds 5colour tipped-in plates on card with accompanying 16 pp. text. 43x31 cm. Cloth, clamshell case. £750.00A very fine survey of the work of this outstanding 20th century Japanese painter and woodblock print artist. Illustrated throughout.This work has the added lustre of the ink brushed calligraphic signature of Munakata himself on the inside frontpaper. All text inJapanese.

199 Silva, Anil de: CHINESE LANDSCAPE PAINTING IN THE CAVES OF TUN-HUANG. Art of the World.London, 1967. 240 pp. 43 tipped-in colour plates, 35 figures, map. Appendix, bibliography, index. 23x18 cm. Cloth,slipcase. £15.00An excellent contribution to this somewhat-neglected aspect of the murals at Dunhuang.

200 Siren, Osvald: CENTRAL ASIAN INFLUENCES IN CHINESE PAINTING OF THE T’ANG PERIOD.Offprint Arts Asiatiques Tome III, fasc. I. Paris, 1956. pp. 3-21 27x22 cm. Self-covered. £10.00

201 Sirén, Osvald: THE CHINESE ON THE ART OF PAINTING. Translations and Comments. New York, 1963.261 pp. 21 plates. Index. 21x14 cm. Paper. £25.00Reprint of the Peiping 1936 edition. An excellent contribution by a foremost scholar. Hucker 1492.

202 Sirén, Osvald: A HISTORY OF LATER CHINESE PAINTING I-II. New York, 1978. xi, 247, ix, 328 pp. 242b/w plates, Bibliography. List of painters. 2 vols. 32x24 cm. Cloth. £120.00Volume I: from the end of the Yuan to the end of the Wan Li reign; Volume II: from the end of the Ming Period to the end of the QianLong reign. Reprint of London, 1938.

203 Smith, Judith G. and Wen C. Fong ed: ISSUES OF AUTHENTICITY IN CHINESE PAINTING. New York,1999. 317 pp. Over 200 b/w plates. Glossary. 27x22 cm. Paper. £20.00Proceedings of a symposium held at the Metropolitan Museum of New York, focusing on the authenticity of the painting ‘Riverbank’attributed to Dong Yuan (active 930-960). With contributions by James Cahill (the case against), Hironobu Kohara, Sherman Lee, QiGong, Maxwell K. Hearn, Shih Shou-chien, Jerome Silbergeld, Wan-go Weng, Stephen Little, Wen C. Fong and Robert E. Harrist.

204 Sotheby’s: PAINTINGS BY MING AND CH’ING MASTERS FROM THE LOK TSAI HSIENCOLLECTION. New York, 1976. 74 illustrations, 3 in colour. 24x22 cm. Paper. £15.00Auction catalogue of the property of Mr Wong Pao-hsi in Hong Kong. Includes paintings by Shen Zhou, Wen Zhengming and otherleading artists of the Wu school and by ‘fantastics and eccentrics’ of the 17th and 18th centuries.

205 Sturman, P. & Tai, S. ed: THE ARTFUL RECLUSE. Painting, Poetry and Politics in 17th Century. Munich, 2012.320 pp. Colour illustrations throughout. 30x25 cm. Cloth. £40.00This is a well-illustrated catalogue produced to accompany an exhibition at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art and then at the AsiaSociety of New York. The theme of reclusion (deeply associated with ancient Chinese literati culture) was especially prevalent duringthe late Ming and early Qing dynasties, a period of unrivalled artistic achievement and historical drama. The exhibition explores thistheme and how such painters expressed their thoughts and views through a showing of nearly 60 hanging and hand scrolls, albumsand fans — many never previously published. All exhibits illustrated and well-described and accompanied by essays from a numberof scholars.

206 Sturman, Peter Charles: MI FU. Style and the Art of Calligraphy in Northern Song China. New Haven, 1997. 276pp. 74 b/w plates. Glossary, bibliography, index. 25x17 cm. Cloth. £30.00A study of the famous Northern Song period calligrapher’s work which takes into account the context of the artist’s life and the con-tent of his calligraphic work, as well as its form and artistry. An important contribution to the history of China’s ‘highest’ visual art.

207 Sullivan, Michael: MODERN CHINESE ART. The Khoan and Michael Sullivan Collection. Oxford, 2001. 220pp. Colour illustrations throughout. 28x21 cm. Paper. £10.00The Khoan and Michael Sullivan collection, begun in Sichuan in 1940s, is now housed in a special gallery of the Ashmolean museumin Oxford and includes paintings by the principal artists of late twentieth century China together with works by a new generation. Here,the well-known art historian describes and places the collection in its context.

208 Sullivan, Michael: MODERN CHINESE ARTISTS. A Biographical Dictionary. Berkeley, 2006. xx, 248 pp. 80b/w plates. Index. 20x15 cm. Cloth. £15.00The first biographical dictionary of its kind in any Western language, this pioneering work provides short, information-packed entriesfor approximately 1,800 Chinese artists of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

209 Sullivan, Michael: SYMBOLS OF ETERNITY. The Art of Landscape Painting in China. Oxford, 1979. 224 pp.101 illustrations, 24 in colour. Map. 25x18 cm. Cloth. £55.00A chronological survey by an authority on Chinese painting.

210 Suzhou Museum: SUZHOU BOWUGUAN CANG QINGDAI QISHIER ZHUANG YUAN SHAN. TheSeventy-Two Fan Faces by the Principal Graduates of Qing Dynasty Collected by Suzhou Museum. 蘇州博物館藏清代七十二狀元扇. Beijing, 2006. 307 pp. 72 double page colour plates. 29x22 cm. Boards. £50.00Shows 72 fine examples of Qing dynasty fans bearing calligraphy by ‘jinshi’ graduates of the imperial examination system. The fanswere collected by the Chinese painter, Wu Hufan, and donated to the museum. All 72 fans are well-illustrated in colour on double pagecolour plates. Introductions, list of contents and list of plates in English. Main text in Chinese.

211 Tam, L. & Shen, C: KWANGTUNG PAINTING. Landscapes, Figures, Plants and Animals by Past KwangtungMasters. Hong Kong, 1974. 232 pp. 111 paintings illustrated, some in colour. Chinese & English text. 26x20 cm.Cloth. £15.00Describes the development of the Guangdong school from the 15th to the mid-20th century. Representative paintings have been selectedfrom some 2,000 items in various collections in Hong Kong and Macau.


212 Tam, Laurence C. S. ed: GUANGDONG CALLIGRAPHY. Guangdong Lidai MIngjia Shufa. 廣東歷代名家書法. Hong Kong, 1981. 363 pp. text in English & Chinese. 140 pieces illustrated. 28x22 cm. Paper. £40.00Exhibition catalogue from the Hong Kong Museum of Art. Includes an essay by Chuang Shen.

213 Tam, Laurence C. S. intro: EARLY MASTERS OF THE LINGNAN SCHOOL. 嶺南派早期名家作品. HongKong, 1983. 186 pp. 95 b/w illustrations, 36 colour illustrations. English & Chinese text. 26x22 cm. Paper.

£10.00The Lingnan School was one of many schools of painting in Guangdong and since the 19th century has exerted tremendous influence.This attractive catalogue features Ju Lian, Ju Chao, Song Guangbao and Meng Jinyi.

214 Tian Jun et al ed: XU GU HUAFENG. (Paintings by Xu Gu). 虛谷畫風。田軍等編. Chongqing, 1995. 128 pp.Colour illustrations throughout. 26x19 cm. Boards. £20.00A cheap compilation of the fine and subtle paintings of the Qing painter Xu Gu. In Chinese only.

215 Tokyo National Museum: ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUES OF TOKYO NATIONAL MUSEUM: CHINESEPAINTINGS. Illustrated Catalogues of Tokyo National Museum. Tokyo, 1979. 218 pp. Over 350 illustrations.26x19 cm. Cloth. £40.00Small but excellent reproductions of all the Chinese paintings in the Tokyo National Museum. Very handy reference on an excellentcollection. Captions in English. Main text in Japanese.

216 Tokyo National Museum: TWIN PEAKS. The Finest of Chinese and JapaneseCalligraphy. Tokyo, 2006. 432 pp. 259 pp. colour plates. 30x23 cm. Wrappers.

£60.00Catalogue of an exhibition of 189 outstanding — and superbly illustrated — examples of Japaneseand Chinese calligraphy from across the centuries. Comprises loans from various Japanese institu-tions and the Shanghai Museum. Illustrated throughout in colour. Brief introductions to each sectionand list of plates in English.

217 Tsang, Gerald et al: TRADITION AND INNOVATION. Twentieth Century ChinesePainting. Hong Kong, 1995. 408 pp. 137 works illustrated in colour. Index. 36x27 cm.Cloth. £90.00Catalogue in English and Chinese of a major exhibition of Chinese paintings from Wu Chuangshuoto Liu She, at the Hong Kong Museum of Art, and also other overseas museums. Essays by Chu-tsing Li, Lang Shaojun, Lu Fusheng, Shui Tianzhong, Wang Bomin, and Wu Guangzhong.

218 Tsang, Gerard C. C: FAN PAINTINGS BY LATE CH’ING SHANGHAI MASTERS. 清末上海名家扇面. HongKong, 1977. 124 pp. text. 124 b/w plates. 25x18 cm. Paper. £35.00Catalogue of an exhibition of paintings by the late Qing Shanghai school of painters held at the Hong Kong Museum of Art. Dual textsin Chinese and English. Scarce.

219 Tsao Jung Ying: CHINESE PAINTINGS OF THE MIDDLE QING DYNASTY. San Francisco, 1987. ix, 274pp. 106 plates and illustrations. 32x23 cm. Cloth. £30.00Middle Qing paintings are divided into twelve schools, each of which is the subject of a separate chapter. Paintings illustrated are ac-companied by descriptions, biographies, translations of poems, etc.

220 Tseng, Yu-ho Ecke: POETRY ON THE WIND. The Art of Chinese Folding Fans From the Ming and Ch’ingDynasties. Honolulu, 1982. xxxv, 161 pp. 14 colour plates, 60 b/w plates, 27 text-figures. 22x28 cm. Paper.

£15.00Introductory essays on the history, construction etc. of the folding fan. Descriptive catalogue illustrating all 74 exhibits from privateand museum collections, including the Honolulu Academy where the exhibition was held.

221 Vainker, Shelagh: MODERN CHINESE PAINTINGS: THE REYES COLLECTION IN THE ASHMOLEANMUSEUM, OXFORD & CHINESE PAINTINGS IN THE ASHMOLEAN MUSEUM, OXFORD. Oxford,1996 & 2000. 96; 253 pp. Colour and b/w plates throughout both volumes. 2 vols. 24x17 cm. Paper. £20.00Well-illustrated two-volume survey of this fine collection. One volume covers the general collection of Chinese paintings in the Ash-molean, the second volume covers the Reyes Collection of 130 modern Chinese paintings which was donated to the Ashmolean Mu-seum in 1965. It covers the period from the mid 19th century to 1995.

222 Vanderstappen, H.; Covey, R. ed: THE LANDSCAPE PAINTING OF CHINA. Musings of a Journeyman.Gainesville, 2014. xiv, 342 pp. Colour text plates throughout. 28x24 cm. Cloth. £38.50Covers Chinese painting from the late Tang to the end of the Ming dynasty and the early Qing. Arranged chronologically, this workcomprises the detailed thoughts, musings and insights into Chinese painting by a fine scholar of the subject, Harry Vanderstappen. Pub-lished posthumously. A very interesting and stimulating work.

223 Victoria & Albert Museum: MASTERPIECES OF CHINESE PAINTING 700-1900. London, 2013. 360 pp.Colour plates throughout. 29x26 cm. Cloth. £30.00Edited by the curator of the exhibition, Zhang Hongxing, this is the catalogue accompanying a superb showing of Chinese paintingsat the Victoria & Albert Museum. Includes major loans of extraordinary, rare and delicate paintings from numerous institutions world-wide, including the Chinese national treasure ‘Auspicious Cranes’ from the Liaoning Provincial Museum. A total of 79 paintings,handscrolls and albums. All illustrated in colour and described in erudite detail. This catalogue also serves as a history of Chinesepainting from 700-1900 and is destined to become a standard reference. Recommended.


224 Wang Fangyu and Barnhart, Richard M: MASTER OF THE LOTUS GARDEN. The Life and Art of BadaShanren (1626-1705). New Haven, 1990. 304 pp. 4 colour plates, numerous illustrations. 29x23 cm. Cloth.

£50.00Also known as Zhu Da, Bada Shanren is one of China’s most distinctive graphic artists. His life is equally fascinating; an imperial princewho became a Buddhist monk and ultimately returned to secular life. The book serves as the catalogue for the exhibition touring theUSA.

225 Wang Hongxing ed: MING QING SHUHUA: HUBEI SHENG BOWUGUAN CANG SHUHUA XUAN.Paintings and Calligraphic Works of Ming and Qing Dynasties Collected by Hubei Provincial Museum.. 明清書畫：湖北省博物館臧書畫選。王紅星主編. Beijing, 2007. 111 pp. Colour illustrations throughout. 29x22 cm.Wrappers. £25.00A survey of the finest Ming and Qing calligraphy and paintings held in the collection of the Hubei Provincial Museum in Wuhan,China. Over 100 works illustrated in colour and described. Near dual texts in Chinese and English.

226 Wang Yao-t’ing: LOOKING AT CHINESE PAINTING. A Comprehensive Guide to the Philosophy, Techniquesand History. Tokyo, 1996. 208 pp. 154 colour and 59 b/w illustrations. 27x19 cm. Cloth. £45.00This handsomely-produced volume is a treasure trove of information about Chinese painting. Includes an important essay on authen-tication — copies and forgeries. The author is a researcher at the National Palace Museum and profoundly qualified to explain thesubject to westerners. An excellent introduction and survey.

227 Wang Yaoting ed: CHUANYI MOXIE. The Tradition of Re-Presenting Art: Originality and Reproducation inChinese Painting and Calligraphy. 傳移模寫。王耀庭主編. Taibei, 2007. 148 pp. Colour plates throughout.29x21 cm. Wrappers. £40.00Catalogue of a useful exhibition at the National Palace Museum in Taibei exploring the Chinese tradition of copying and imitating theworks and styles of old masters as a way of preserving the past and providing inspiration in art. Whilst such copying is looked downon in the West, it was a mark of respect in Chinese culture. A good number of paintings and calligraphy are here shown along withlater copies or works inspired by earlier material. Of much interest is an essay by Wang Yaoting: To Transmit by Copying: The Tra-dition of Reproduction in Chinese Painting and Calligraphy. Near dual texts in Chinese and English.

228 Watt, J. C. Y: EXHIBITION OF LOK TSAI HSIEN COLLECTION OF CALLIGRAPHY IN COUPLETS.Art Gallery Publication No. 4. Hong Kong, 1972. 24 pp. text. 82 plates. 29x22 cm. Paper. £15.00Catalogue of a choice collection of ‘duilian’ written by famous calligraphers and scholars from 1600 to 1900. Exhibition at the ArtGallery of the Chinese University of Hong Kong.

229 WEN ZHENGMING SHUHUA JI. (The Painting and Calligraphy of Wen Zhengming). 文徵明書畫集. Beijing,2005. 432 pp. Colour plates throughout both volumes. 2 vols. 29x21 cm. Boards. £55.00Pleasing two-volume work showing the work of the famous Ming dynasty painter, Wen Zhengming. Both volumes illustrated through-out in colour showing numerous examples of his fine paintings and calligraphy. A prime visual reference. Text in Chinese.

230 Weng, Wan-go: CHINESE PAINTING AND CALLIGRAPHY A PICTORIAL SURVEY. 69 Fine Examplesfrom the John M. Crawford Jr. Collection. New York, 1978. xxxvi, 155 pp. 108 prints. 30x22 cm. Paper. £15.00Reproductions of fine examples of painting and calligraphy in the collection of the well-known collector-connoisseur.

231 Whitfield, Roderick: THE FASCINATION OF NATURE. Plants and Insects in Chinese Painting and Ceramicsof the Yuan Dynasty. Seoul, 1993. 112 pp. text volume. 28 colour and b/w plates. 2 vols. 31x24 cm. Cloth, withfolded scroll in slipcase. £120.00In 1321, the until now little-know Yuan dynasty painter, Xie Chufang, painted a scroll accurately depicting the ‘fascinations’ of the nat-ural world in intimate detail. The 6m scroll is reproduced original size and Professor Whitfield explores its significance and influence.Scarce.

232 Whitfield, Roderick: IN PURSUIT OF ANTIQUITY. Chinese Paintings of the Ming and Ch’ing Dynasties.Princeton, 1969. 240 pp. 140 illustrations, 2 in colour. Chronological list of painters. Bibliography. 26x20 cm. Paper. £15.00Wang Hui and other Ming and Qing masters from the Morse Collection. Text by a foremost scholar on Chinese paintings.

233 Wong, Wucius: THE TAO OF CHINESE LANDSCAPE PAINTING. Principles and Methods. Hong Kong,1991. 144 pp. 500 illustrations. 29x22 cm. Cloth. £35.00Using philosophical concepts derived from ancient Taoist and Confucian thought, Mr. Wong describes the Chinese landscape paint-ing tradition, its concepts, its vocabulary, and its brush-and-ink techniques.

234 WU LI JINGPIN JI. (The Masterworks of Wu Li). 吳力精品集. Beijing, 2002. 16, 15 pp. text plus 200 pp. colourplates. 38x27 cm. Cloth. £55.00The finest works of the little-known landscape painter Wu Li (1598-1677) who was active during the transition from the Ming to theQing dynasties. Illustrated throughout with high quality colour plates. Text in Chinese.

235 Wu Liancheng: BAONING SI MINGDAI SHUILU HUA. Ming Dynasty Shui Lu Paintings at Bao Ning Si —Painting of Buddhist or Taoist Rituals. 寶寧寺明代水陸畫. Beijing, 1988. 216 pp. 181 colour plates. 36x27 cm.Boards, in slip case. £75.00Fullpage reproductions of these famous and well-executed paintings of Buddhist and Daoist rituals. Captions and introduction in En-glish. Main text in Chinese. Out of print.

236 Wu Tung: TALES FROM THE LAND OF DRAGONS. 1,000 Years of Chinese Painting. Boston, 1997. 269 pp.86 colour plates, c. 200 b/w illustrations. 5 maps. Glossary, bibliography, index. 29x21 cm. Cloth. £20.00Catalogue of a comprehensive exhibition that for the first time showed the 151 best classical Chinese paintings in the Museum of FineArts, Boston. Introductory historical essay followed by a detailed catalogue of the paintings, which date from Han to Yuan.


237 Xu Huping ed: SHUFA. Calligraphy. 書法。徐湖平主編. Gems of Collections in Nanjing Museum. Shanghai,1999. 52 pp. Colour plates throughout. 26x19 cm. Paper. £17.0050 excellent pieces of calligraphy held at the Nanjing Museum. Pieces illustrated date from the Tang to the modern day. Well-illus-trated in colour. In English and Chinese.

238 Xu Liu, Tan Ping, and De Ying comp: SONGREN YUANTI HUAFENG. (Palace Style Painting by Song DynastyArtists). 宋人院體畫風. Zhongguo Gudai Huihua Dashi Huafeng Xilie. Chongqing, 1994. [8] pp. text, 145 colourplates. 27x20 cm. Boards. £20.00From a useful series of books with good reproductions of representative works. Text in Chinese only.

239 XU WEI JINGPIN HUAJI. (Masterpieces by Xu Wei). 徐渭精品畫集. Tianjin, 2000. 18 pp. text and 146 pp. fullcolour plates. 39x27 cm. Cloth. £80.00A fine collection of works by the famous Ming dynasty painter Xu Wei. Masterpieces from the National Palace Museum and mainlandChina collections. Excellent quality plates. In Chinese only.

240 Xu Yang: GUSU FANHUA TU. Prosperous Suzhou. 姑蘇繁華圖。徐揚繪. Hong Kong, 1986. 18 pp. text. Longfolding colour reproduction of the scroll. 2 vols. 36x27 cm. Paper & boards, in slip case. £100.00Full-length and full-size foldout reproduction of the famous scroll by Xu Yang in the Liaoning Museum. The scroll depicts the city ofSuzhou in extraordinary detail and is a superb artistic accomplishment. Accompanied by an 18 page text pamphlet. The best repro-duction to date of this work and hard to find.

241 Xu Yang painter: PROSPEROUS SUZHOU. Gusu Fanhua Tu. 姑蘇繁華圖。徐揚繪. Beijing, 2016. Longfolding colour reproduction of the scroll. 30x17 cm. Boards. £30.00A full-length foldout reproduction, in a somewhat reduced size, of the famous scroll by the Qing dynasty court artist, Xu Yang, whichis held in the Liaoning Provincial Museum in China. This reproduction is more than large enough to appreciate the extraordinary de-tail of this exceptionally long handscroll which depicts the city of Suzhou and its environs and which is a superb artistic accomplish-ment.

242 Xu Zufan, Qin Mingzhi, Rong Enqi et al. comp: DUNHUANG YI SHU SHUFA XUAN. (A Selection ofCalligraphy from Documents Found at Dunhuang). 敦煌遺書書法選。徐祖蕃、秦明智、榮恩奇選編.Lanzhou, 1985. x, 12 pp. B/w illustrations throughout. 38x27 cm. Cloth. £40.00A collection of calligraphy found on documents (sutras etc.) in the caves at Dunhuang and now in Chinese collections. Documents il-lustrated date from the 5th to the 8th centuries. A useful tool for judging authenticity of Dunhuang manuscripts. In Chinese only.

243 Yamato Bunkakan: CHINESE PAINTINGS FROM THE HASHIMOTO COLLECTION. Special Exhibition.Nara, 1980. 122 pp. Numerous illustrations, 3 in colour. 26x18 cm. Paper. £30.00Yamato Bunkakan exhibition of mostly 17th and 18th century literati paintings. English captions. Main text in Japanese.

244 Yoon, Yeolsu; Wonjun Nam trans.; Roderick Whitfield ed: HANDBOOK OF KOREAN ART: FOLKPAINTING. London, 2003. 373 pp. 314 colour illustrations. Glossary, bibliography, table of symbols. 17x13 cm.Paper. £10.00Beautifully-illustrated and packed with information, this is one of four recently issued handy guides to Korean art by major authori-ties in the field.

245 YUN SHOUPING JINGPIN JI. (A Selection of Works by Yun Shouping). 惲壽平精品集. Beijing, 1993. 19,112, 14 pp. 112 pp. colour plates 38x27 cm. Cloth. £40.00151 colour plates of Yun Shouping’s painting and calligraphy with an introduction and captions in English. Otherwise, Chinese only.Good colour illustrations.

246 Zhang Anzhi: A HISTORY OF CHINESE PAINTING. Beijing, 1992. 244 pp. 190 coloured illustrations. 31x23cm. Cloth. £15.00A good general history of Chinese Painting from the Neolithic age to contemporary artists by a Professor at the Central Institute ofFine Arts.

247 Zhang, Yiguo: BRUSHED VOICES. Calligraphy in Contemporary China. New York, 1998. 160 pp. 78illustrations, including 8 in colour. Bibliography. 29x21 cm. Paper. £25.00Catalogue of an exhibition displaying the vitality of contemporary Chinese calligraphy, and also engaging its influence on westernartists. The catalogue includes an interview: ‘Brice Marsden and Chinese Calligraphy’.

248 Zhou Wenlin: BAISHI JINGHUA. (Masterpieces by Qi Baishi). 白石精華。周文林主編. Kunming, 2008. 22,371 pp. Colour plates throughout. 30x30 cm. Cloth. £50.00A well-produced work illustrated throughout with hundreds of full page colour plates arranged chronologically showing the finestworks by the pre-eminent 20th century Chinese painter, Qi Baishi. A fine visual reference. Text in Chinese.

FROM OUR STOCK – 22 – HANSHAN TANG BOOKS

FROM OUR STOCK249 2013 ANTIQUES: CHINESE ART AUCTION RECORDS 2012.1.1 — 2012.12.31(WORKS OF ART). 2013

Gudong Paimai Nianjian: Zaxiang. 2013 骨董拍賣年鑒：雜項 . Changsha, 2013. 348 pp. Colour platesthroughout. 26x18 cm. Paper. £20.00Coverage of auction prices for Chinese bronzes, sculpture, bamboo, wood, furniture, textiles and numerous other fine works of art invarious media sold in auction in China and elsewhere in 2012. Colour illustrations throughout. Hundreds of examples shown with pricesrealised in RMB. Text only in Chinese.

250 Abe, Stanley: ORDINARY IMAGES. Chicago, 2002. 408 pp. B/w illustrations. 25x22 cm. Cloth. £30.00Explores the large body of sculpture, ceramics and other religious imagery produced for China’s common classes from the third to thesixth centuries AD. Contrasting with the richness of imperial commissioned works, Abe examines ‘ordinary images’ and works com-missioned for patrons of modest means. An erudite study that helps fill a distinct knowledge gap.

251 Acharya, Sanjay: BHUTAN. Kingdom in the Himalaya. New Delhi, 2000. 96 pp. Colour photography throughout.31x23 cm. Cloth, dustjacket. £10.00A photo survey of the life and scenery of the kingdom of Bhutan when it was slowly opening to the world.

252 ANNINGHE LIUYU DA SHI MU. (Remains of Large Stone Tombs Found on the Anning River). 安寧河流域大石窟. Beijing, 2006. 8, 182 pp. text plus 16 pp. colour and 39 pp. b/w plates. Numerous b/w text drawings.29x22 cm. Boards. £15.00Report on excavations of tombs along the Anning River in China’s Sichuan province built with large boulders. 232 such tombs havebeen discovered and 47 excavated. The tombs date from the Warring States through to the latter part of the Han dynasty. Grave goodsinclude pottery and small objects of bronze, gold, iron etc. One page English abstract. Main text in Chinese.

253 Ariadne Galleries: TREASURES OF THE EURASIAN STEPPES. Animal Art from 800 BC to 200 AD. NewYork, 1998. 176 pp. Colour plates throughout. 29x21 cm. Cloth. £70.00196 pieces, all illustrated in colour and well-described. The objects come from varied Eurasian sources ranging from Scythia, South-ern Siberia and Mongolia to Ningxia and Northwest China.

254 ARS ORIENTALIS VOLUME 33. Volume 33 (2003. Washington, 2004. 214 pp. Numerous b/w plates throughout.28x22 cm. Paper. £15.00Contents: F. Louis, Birdscript of the Early Han Dynasty; E. Johnston Laing, Auspicious Motifs in 9th-13th-Century Chinese Tombs;N. S. Steinhardt, A Jin Hall at Jingtsui; Q. E. Phillips, The Jofukuji Paintings of the Ten Kings; C. Branfoot, The Madurai Nayakasand the Skanda Temple at Tirupparankundram; A. Lopez Y Royo, Siwa in Java; plus book reviews.

255 Art Exhibitions China ed.: Topkapi Palace Museum: HUAXIA GUIBAO ZHAN. Treasures of China/CinHazineleri Sergisi. 華夏瑰寶展. Beijing, 2012. 221 pp. Full page colour plates. 29x21 cm. Wrappers. £65.00Catalogue of a high-level loan exhibition of Chinese held in 2012 at the Topkapi Saray Museum in Istanbul. The exhibits came frommajor museums in China and included terracotta warriors from the First Emperor’s tomb and many other equally important artefactsfrom throughout China’s history. List of contents and brief captions to plates in English. Main texts in Chinese and Turkish.

256 Ashencaen, Deborah & Leonov, Gennady: TIBETAN ART AT SPINK. London, 1992. 70 pp. 68 colourillustrations. 22x21 cm. Paper. £25.0068 objects of Tibetan art, including bronze sculptures, paintings, ritual objects and furniture, and rugs exhibited at Spink & Son Ltd.

257 Ashton Dore: NOGUCHI EAST AND WEST. California, 1993. 341 pp. 13 colour & 91 b/w photos. 23x15 cm.Paper. £10.00Biography of the Japanese-American sculptor and designer Isamu Noguchi, and a critical study of his spiritual journey both in theevents of his life and in the milestones of his art.

258 Avitabile, Gunhild: FROM THE DRAGON’S TREASURE — VOM SCHATZ DER DRACHEN. ChinesePorcelain From the 19 & 20th Centuries in the Weishaupt Collection. London, 1987. 168 pp. 203 plates andillustrations in colour. 4 pp. marks. 22x24 cm. Cloth. £50.00Catalogue of a major collection of porcelains of the later Qing period. Illustrated in full colour are 203 pieces of Imperial porcelainof the Jiaqing to Republican period (1796-1949). An important contribution. The collection was exhibited in Frankfurt and Berlin in1987. Text sin English and German.

259 Bai Ming: THE TRADITIONAL CRAFTS OF PORCELAIN MAKING INJINGDEZHEN. Jingdezhen Chuantong Zhi Ci Gongyi. 景德鎮傳統制瓷工藝。白明著. Nanchang, 2002. 275 pp. Colour illustrations throughout. 23x16 cm. Cloth.

£40.00An excellent, highly-informative and copiously-illustrated work on traditional porcelain making aspractised in Jingdezhen. The book has hundreds of illustrations that show porcelain making as prac-tised today and which closely follows the age-old methods. The highly-detailed dual-language En-glish and Chinese text throws much light on the traditional methods and history of porcelainmanufacture. Recommended. Now out-of-print.

260 Balazs, Stefan: DIE INSCHRIFTEN DER SAMMLUNG BARON EDUARDVON DER HEYDT. Ostasiatische Zeitschrift 20 Jahrgang. Berlin, 1934. 25 pp. 8plates. In German. 27x20 cm. Paper. £10.00Features steles and other inscriptions from the Heydt collection. Offprint from the journal.

261 Baldridge, Cyrus Le Roy: TIME AND CHANCE. New York, 1947. 432 pp. 46 b/wplates, numerous text drawings. 24x16 cm. Cloth. £15.00A general and extensive world travelogue but with much on the Far East — China, Japan etc. The chief appeal of this book, apart froma lively text, are the numerous appealing drawings and illustrations.

LIST 190 – 23 – FROM OUR STOCK

262 Ball, J. Dyer: THINGS CHINESE. Or Notes Connected With China. Hong Kong & London, 1892. 2, 419, xiii pp.Plus errata slip. Index. 22x15 cm. Decorative cloth, slightly rubbed. £40.00Very good copy of the first edition. This work soon became established as perhaps the best known dictionary or encyclopaedia of Chi-nese culture, society and history. Still extremely useful.

263 Barmé, Geremie R: THE FORBIDDEN CITY. London, 2008. xxxi, 251 pp. B/willustrations. 21x14 cm. Cloth. £15.00Most readable and containing much little-known information on the Forbidden City.

264 Barrett, T. H: TAOISM UNDER THE T’ANG. Religion and Empire During theGolden Age of Chinese History. London, 1996. 110 pp. 3 b/w illustrations.Glossary/index. 20x14 cm. Cloth. £15.00The history of China’s one true native religion — if we call Confucianism an ethics and Buddhism‘foreign’ — is very little known, even during the period of her greatest cultural and political efflo-rescence. Professor Barrett fills the gaps in our knowledge. First edition.

265 Baumer, Christoph: THE HISTORY OF CENTRAL ASIA: VOLUME ONE. TheAge of the Steppe Warriors. London, 2012. 384 pp. 262 colour photographs. 29x23 cm.Cloth. £30.00Volume One of an ambitious four-volume history of this fascinating region. Volume One focuses onthe area now comprising Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, northernAfghanistan and western and central Mongolia. It examines the history from the Palaeolithic through to the Bronze Age and includessubjects as diverse as glacial retreat, the invention of the wheel, the legendary Cimmerians and Amazons, Hellenism and Zoroastri-anism and the Oxus treasure.Volume Two: ‘The Age of the Silk Roads’ also available at £25.00.

266 Baumer, Christoph: THE HISTORY OF CENTRAL ASIA: VOLUME TWO. The Age of the Silk Roads.London, 2014. x, 398 pp. Colour photographs throughout. 29x23 cm. Cloth. £30.00Volume Two of this ambitious four-volume history of this fascinating region. This volume covers the period when the Silk Road flour-ished from c.200 BC to 900 AD and explores the unique flow of goods, peoples and ideas that brought Europe into contact with Asia.Hugely detailed and informative.

267 Baumer, Christoph: THE HISTORY OF CENTRAL ASIA: VOLUME THREE. The Age of Islam and theMongols. London, 2016. x, 398 pp. Colour photographs throughout. 29x23 cm. Cloth. £30.00Volume Three of this ambitious four-volume history of a fascinating region. This volume covers the period from the 9th to 15th cen-turies and covers the rise, victories and power of Islam and the Mongols. Extensive detail and fine illustration.

268 Bautze-Picron, Claudine: THE BUDDHIST MURALS OF PAGAN. Timeless Vistasof the Cosmos. Bangkok, 2003. 280 pp. 253 colour plates. 29x21 cm. Cloth. £70.00This comprehensive study covers not only the murals found within the temples of Pagan, but alsowithin other monuments scattered across the Pagan plain. Contains an iconographic analysis aswell as seeking to place the murals within the broader context of Burmese temple interior spaces. Afine and well-illustrated study on a most important Buddhist complex.

269 Béguin, Gilles: MANDALA. Diagrammes ésotériques du Nepal et du Tibet au MuséeGuimet. Paris, 1995. 172 pp. 50 colour plates. 27x21 cm. Paper. £15.00A detailed presentation of the main iconography of Tibetan Buddhist mandalas, with commentary.In French.

270 Beijing Liao Jin Chengtan Museum ed: DA LIAO YIZHEN: LIAODAI WENWUZHAN. (Treasures of the Great Liao: An Exhibition of the Culture of the LiaoDynasty). 大遼遺珍：遼代文物展. Beijing, 2012. 144 pp. Numerous colour plates.B/w text illustrations and architectural drawings. 28x21 cm. Wrappers. £40.00Catalogue of an exhibition of Liao dynasty artefacts held at the above museum in Beijing. Includes ceramics, bronzes, small examplesof jewellery and jades. Some of the objects are from the Museum’s collection but it is unclear where the remainder are held. All illus-trated in colour and described. Text in Chinese.

271 Berglund, Lars: THE SECRET OF LUO SHU. Numerology in Chinese Art and Architecture. Lund, 1990. 402 pp.Illustrated throughout with b/w figures and photographs. Index and appendixes. 24x17 cm. Paper. £70.00Well-illustrated exposition of the foundation of Chinese numerological systems and their application to art and architecture. A com-prehensive survey which breaks new ground. Extensive chapters on architecture and bronze TVL mirrors. A very scarce and enlight-ening contribution.

272 Berwald Oriental Art: 2000: TWO MILLENNIA OF CHINESE ART. Influences from the Silk Road. London,2000. 59 pp. Colour plates throughout. 30x22 cm. Cloth. £15.00Finely-produced dealer’s catalogue featuring 36 fine examples of Chinese art in various media dating from the Han to the Qing — pre-dominantly Ming and Qing ceramics.

273 Binyon, Laurence: THE SPIRIT OF MAN IN ASIAN ART. New York, 1965. xv, 217 pp. 70 plates. 21x14 cm.Paper. £10.00The Charles Eliot Norton Lectures delivered at Harvard University 1933-34. Unabridged reprint of the 1935 edition. Yuan 126.

274 Birrell, Anne: NEW SONGS FROM A JADE TERRACE. London, 1982. 374 pp. Index of poem titles. Index offirst lines. 24x16 cm. Cloth. £15.00A translation of a medieval Chinese anthology of love poems, spanning the centuries from the second century B.C. to the mid-sixth cen-tury A.D. which aims to show that love was far from a neglected subject in Chinese poetry.


275 Bishop, Carl Whiting: AN ANCIENT CHINESE CAPITAL: EARTHWORKS AT OLD CHANG-AN. OffprintAntiquity March 1938. London, 1938. pp. 68-78 plus 4 pp. b/w plates hors texte. 25x18 cm. Paper. £15.00Author’s dedication and signature.

276 Blofeld, John: CITY OF LINGERING SPLENDOUR. A Frank Account of Old Peking’s Exotic Pleasures.Boston, 1989. 256 pp. 30 plates and illustrations. 22x14 cm. Paper. £15.00Reprint of a famous account of Peking in the 1930s. The author vividly recreates the magic of those years and conveys to the readerhis appreciation and nostalgia for a way of life long vanished.

277 Blofield, John: THE CHINESE ART OF TEA. Boston, 1997. 224 pp. 100 line drawings, 20 illustrations. 20x20cm. Paper. £20.00Besides the long history of tea, told with a wealth of legends, anecdotes and poems, we learn about mountain springs, tea houses andgardens, tea-loving emperors, Taoists, monks, potters and poets.

278 Bower, Virginia L: FROM COURT TO CARAVAN. Chinese Tomb Sculptures fromthe Collection of Anthony M. Solomon. New Haven, 2002. 149 pp. Colour platesthroughout. 31x22 cm. Cloth. £20.00Featuring 75 Chinese tomb sculptures from the Solomon collection exhibited at the Sackler Gallery,Harvard, dating from the Han to Tang and particularly rich in sixth century pieces. Provides an up-to-date overview of this aspect of Chinese ceramic art.

279 Brauen, Martin: THE MANDALA. Sacred Circle in Tibetan Buddhism. London,1997. 150 pp. 47 colour illustrations, 67 b/w illustrations and drawings. 16 tables.30x22 cm. Paper. £15.00The mandala is the foremost symbol and allegory of man’s relationship with the cosmos. This bookintroduces the basic theory and practice of mandalas and describes the Tantric Buddhist worldviewwith the aid of computer computer-generated models. Foreword by H. H. the Dalai Lama.

280 British Museum: EXHIBITION OF ACCESSIONS TO THE COLLECTIONS.Of Oriental Paintings and Antiquities. London, 1963. 69 pp. text plus 4 full page b/w plates. 21x17 cm. Paper, ringbinder. £10.00Lists 150 exhibits, comprising Chinese, Japanese, Indian, Persian, Tibetan, and Nepalese paintings, Oriental bronzes and sculptures,and Islamic art.

281 Brown, Roxanna M: THE CERAMICS OF SOUTH-EAST ASIA. Their Dating and Identification. Chicago,2000. 272 pp. 207 colour and 274 b/w illustrations, 69 figures, 6 maps, bibliography. 28x21 cm. Paper. £20.00In this new edition (originally published 1977), the author has brought her original study fully up to date, has corrected and revisedthe text where necessary, and has added a number of new illustrations and maps. The outcome is virtually a new book, entirely re-il-lustrated.

282 Bussagli, Mario: CHINESE BRONZES. London, 1969. 160 pp. 60 colour plates. 19x14 cm. Paper. £10.00Translated from the Italian. A useful introduction.

283 Calza, Gian Carlo: HOKUSAI. London, 2005. 520 pp. c. 500 colour and c. 200 b/wplates. 29x25 cm. Paper. £25.00Large and comprehensive English overview of Hokusai’s work based on the large exhibition held atthe Palazzo Reale in Milan. Comprising introductory essays, seven chapters on Hokusai’s career, thebook presents and analyses a significant selection of Hokusai’s finest work in all media, giving ascholarly and up-to-date interpretation of the artist. Paperback edition.

284 Calza, Gian Carlo: POEMS OF THE PILLOW AND OTHER STORIES. London,2010. 463 pp. Colour illustrations throughout, a number full page. 28x21 cm. Boards.

£30.00The title continues: ‘...by Utamaro, Hokusai, Kuniyoshi and other artists of the Floating World.’ Adetailed and graphic work illustrating the scenes and stories of sensual pleasure in Japanese liter-ature. Also examines their use as ‘pillow books’ often gifted to a bride on her wedding day intend-ing to be of instructional use. Illustrated throughout and with a detailed text.

285 Peterson, Willard ed: THE CAMBRIDGE HISTORY OF CHINA VOLUME 9 PART TWO. The Ch’ingDynasty to 1800: Part Two. The Cambridge History of China. Cambridge, 2016. xv, 830 pp. Bibliography, glossary,index. 23x15 cm. Cloth. £120.00Sections on: Governing Provinces; Taiwan Prefecture in the 18th Century; The Extension of Qing rule over Mongolia, Xinjiang andTibet 1636-1800; Tributary Relations between the Choson and Qing Courts to 1800; The Emergence of the State of Vietnam; CulturalTransfers between Tokugawa Japan and Qing China to 1800; Qing Relations with Maritime Europeans; Catholic Missionaries 1644-1800; Calendrical Learning and Medicine 1600-1800; Daoists 1644-1800 — and more besides. The latest volume in a prime refer-ence on Chinese history. Just published.

286 Cammann, Schuyler: SUBSTANCE AND SYMBOL IN CHINESE TOGGLES. Chinese Belt Toggles from theC. F. Bieber Collection. Philadelphia, 1962. 256 pp. 188 b/w illustrations, 3 colour plates. Glossary. 26x18 cm.Cloth, dustjacket. £50.00A fascinating account of the toggles used for securing various objects to belts. Cammann investigates the materials selected, the sym-bols of the toggles & contrasts the Chinese & Manchu examples with Mongolian & Tibetan. Much sought-after.


287 Capistrano-Baker, Florina: PHILIPPINE ANCESTRAL GOLD. Manila, 2011. 299 pp. Colour plates throughout.24x28 cm. Wrappers. £70.00Published as a guide to the permanent exhibition at the Ayala Museum in Manila: Gold of Ancestors: Pre-Colonial Treasures in thePhilippines. A very well-illustrated work on these enigmatic pieces mostly comprising small pieces of jewellery and gold filigree workdating from before the Spanish arrival in the country. The exhibits were excavated at sites throughout the Philippines. A good contri-bution to a subject on which little is published.

288 Carl, Katharine A: WITH THE EMPRESS DOWAGER OF CHINA. London, 1906. 306 pp. 22 illustrations andplates. 22x15 cm. Cloth. £30.00Illustrated by the author and with photographs. Katharine Carl was commissioned to paint the portrait of the Empress Dowager. Heraccount includes fascinating insights into the court life during her stay in China.

289 Caroselli, Susan L. ed: THE QUEST FOR ETERNITY. Chinese Ceramic Sculptures from the People’s Republicof China. London, 1987. xiii, 161 pp. Glossary, bibliography. 24 figures, 150 objects illustrated, 85 in colour. 30x23cm. Paper. £15.00Catalogue of an exhibition of tomb figures at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, beautifully illustrated.

290 Chang Foundation: JINTONG FO ZAOXIANG TULU. Buddhist Images in Gilt Metal. 金銅佛造像圖錄. Taibei,1993. 192 pp. 88 colour plates. 31x22 cm. Cloth, slipcase. £85.00The 7th exhibition catalogue from the Chang Foundation treats 88 bronze Buddhist figures from various ages, mainly Tang to Ming.Introduction by James Spencer. Text in English and Chinese. Scarce.

291 Chaves, Jonathan trans: THE COLUMBIA BOOK OF LATER CHINESE POETRY. Yuan, Ming and Ch’ingDynasties (1279-1911). New York, 1986. 481 pp. 10 plates. 24x15 cm. Paper. £15.00Annotated with biographical sketches of the poets and illustrated with their paintings, this is an anthology of high-quality translationsof Chinese poetry from the 13th to 20th centuries.

292 Chen Chi-lu: MATERIAL CULTURE OF THE FORMOSAN ABORIGINES. Taibei, 1968. 422 pp. 135 figures,16 colour plates. 26x19 cm. Cloth. £50.00This book embraces the material culture of all groups of Formosan aborigines including means of subsistence (agriculture, huntingetc.), daily life, manufactures, utensils, clothing, houses & boats, etc.

293 Chen Peifen: ANCIENT CHINESE BRONZES IN THE SHANGHAI MUSEUM. London, 1995. 96 pp. 60colour and 60 b/w illustrations. 28x21 cm. Cloth. £20.00A record of one of the most comprehensive and complete collections of ancient Chinese bronze work in existence. Published to coin-cide with the opening of the new Bronze Gallery of the new Shanghai Museum. 60 objects illustrated and fully described.

294 Chen Peifen: SHANGHAI BOWUGUAN CANG QINGTONG JING. Bronze Mirrors in the Shanghai Museum’sCollection. Shanghai, 1987. 17, 2, 59 pp. text. 200 plates, 100 in colour. 27x19 cm. Cloth. £80.00100 colour plates depicting bronzes mirrors from the Warring States period through the Tang period. Included are also 100 repro-ductions of rubbings of the patterns and decorative motifs. In Chinese only. A scarce record.

295 Chen Xiejun ed: SHANGHAI MUSEUM. London, 2007. 259 pp. Colour text plates throughout. 27x20 cm.Wrappers. £10.00A good survey of this excellent collection. Illustrated throughout. In English.

296 CHINESE ARTISTS, TEXTS AND INTERVIEWS. Chinese Contemporary Art Awards (CCAA) 1998-2002. 中國當代藝術訪談錄. Timezone 8. Hong Kong, 2002. 180 pp. 158 illustrations, including 146 in colour. 23x17 cm.Paper. £10.00Bilingual interviews with texts on, and artworks of, 23 award-winning contemporary Chinese artists.

297 CHINESE ARTS AUCTION RECORDS 2010. Chinese Modern and Asian Contemporary: Chinese Painting andCalligraphy. 西畫書畫：拍賣年鑒 2010. Taibei, 2010. 754 pp. Colour plates. 23x17 cm. Paper. £20.00Copiously-illustrated auction records of sales in the above categories at auctions in China and elsewhere in 2009. Estimates andprices realised given in currencies of place of sale. Text in Chinese.

298 Chinese Culture Foundation: SHIWAN CERAMICS: BEAUTY, COLOR, AND PASSION. San Francisco, 1994.110 pp. 130 colour illustrations. Bibliography. 30x22 cm. Paper. £45.00Exhibition catalogue from the Chinese Culture Center, with essays by Fredrikke S. Scollard and Terese Tse Bartholomew. The co-cu-rator is Han Yuxi of the Guangdong Municipal Museum. The exhibits include Ming-Qing pieces as well as later-date ones. Scarce.

299 Chinese Porcelain Company: CHINESE CERAMICS AND WORKS OF ART. Recent Acquisitions. New York,2002. 63 pp. Colour plates throughout. 32x24 cm. Cloth. £10.00Dealer’s catalogue showing 21 superb examples of Chinese ceramics and works of art. Includes a superb Northern Qi limestonepainted head and torso of a Buddha that is highly reminiscent of the Qingzhou Buddhist sculptures. Also early Chinese ceramics andtomb figurines dating from the Neolithic to the Tang. All illustrated in colour and described in detail.

300 Chinese Porcelain Company: TRANSITORY AND TIMELESS. Ancient Chinese Pottery. New York, 2002. 51pp. Colour plates throughout. 32x24 cm. Cloth. £15.00Dealer’s catalogue showing 66 extremely fine examples of Neolithic Chinese pottery, the majority painted. All illustrated in colour anddescribed in detail.

301 Chitty, J. R: THINGS SEEN IN CHINA. London, 1909. x, 158 pp. 31 plates, 2 sketches. 16x11 cm. Decorativecloth. £30.00From Seeley’s successful series “Things Seen” a beautifully illustrated book with photographs of characteristic scenes and people andimpressions of social, family, religious and artistic life in China.


302 Christie’s: IMPORTANT CHINESE EXPORT PORCELAIN. London, 1976. 118 pp. B/w illustrationsthroughout. 24x18 cm. Paper. £25.00Interesting Christie’s sale catalogue — March 1, 1976 — of Chinese export porcelain, including European subjects, armorial wares,Ch’ing domestic wares, enamels, punchbowls etc. Property of the Szeben-Peto Foundation etc.

303 Christie’s: ASIAN AVANT-GARDE. London, 1998. 152 pp. Colour illustrations throughout. 30x21 cm. Wrappers.£10.00

Auction catalogue showing contemporary Asian art by artists active in a number of Asian countries, not least China and Japan. Well-illustrated and

304 Christie’s: THE FUSHOUTANG COLLECTION. Important Classical Chinese Paintings from Japan. HongKong, 2000. 120 pp. Colour illustrations throughout. 2 foldouts. 27x21 cm. Paper. £20.00Christie’s sale catalogue of 31 important examples of Chinese painting from a Japanese collection. The paintings date from the FiveDynasties and Song to the early Qing. All lots illustrated and described in joint Chinese and English texts.

305 Christie’s: FOR THE ENJOYMENT OF SCHOLARS. Selections from the Robert H. Blumenfeld Collection.New York, 2010. 146 pp. Colour plates throughout. 27x21 cm. Wrappers. £25.00Christie’s New York sale catalogue showing 157 very choice scholar’s studio objects from the Blumenfeld Collection in various mate-rials, from ivory and wood to ceramic brushpots and soapstone seals. All illustrated in colour and described. List of prices realizedincluded.

306 Christie’s: AUSPICIOUS TREASURES FOR SCHOLARS AND EMPERORS. Selections from the Robert H.Blumenfeld Collection. New York, 2012. 191 pp. Colour plates throughout. 27x21 cm. Wrappers. £25.00Christie’s New York sale catalogue showing a second selection of scholar’s studio treasures from the Blumenfeld Collection. 137 ob-jects in various materials, from a zitan mirror stand and other wooden objects to items made from yixing pottery and ruyi sceptres invarious materials. All illustrated in colour and described.

307 Clark, Tim, Louise E. Virgin, Anne Nishimura Morse and Allen Hockley: THE DAWN OF THE FLOATINGWORLD 1650-1765. Early Ukiyo-e Treasures from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. London, 2001. 336 pp. c.200 colour plates. 30x21 cm. Paper. £15.00Catalogue to accompany a fine exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts showing highlights of the Boston collection of early ukiyo-emasterpieces, many acquired from William Bigelow in the early 20th century. An exhaustive catalogue with essays and artist biogra-phies in addition to detailed descriptions of exhibits. Used copy.

308 Clifford, Derek: CHINESE CARVED LACQUER. London, 1992. 160 pp. 101colour & 52 b/w illustrations. Appendix, bibliography. 29x25 cm. Cloth. £30.00This well-presented volume covers the art of Chinese carved lacquer from its beginning to the pre-sent day. Lavishly illustrated with pieces from collections all over the world, it is a valuable hand-book for the collector as well as the enthusiast and connoisseur. Out-of-print.

309 Clunas, C. & Harrison-Hall, J. ed: MING. Fifty years that changed China. London,2014. 312 pp. Colour plates throughout. 28x24 cm. Paper. £15.00Catalogue of a marvellous exhibition at the British Museum exploring the years 1400 to 1450 in China, the early Ming dynasty, avigourous time in China’s history which encompassed the Yongle and Xuande reigns and which saw the building of the Forbidden Cityin Beijing, the amazing maritime expeditions of Zheng He and a flourishing of Chinese art and culture. The exhibition is notable forthe remarkable loans from numerous Chinese museums supplemented by superb objects from institutions in the UK and worldwide.Exhibits range from archaeological artefacts and printed books to ceramics, lacquer, textiles and weaponry. Hardback edition. Pa-perback edition.

310 Clunas, Craig: CHINESE CARVING. Singapore, 1996. 104 pp. 103 plates and illustrations, c. 50 in colour. Notesand index. 30x22 cm. Cloth. £45.00Aims to illustrate and discuss a number of objects in the collection of the Victoria & Albert Museum, which share the characteristicof having been worked principally with a knife, being ivory and rhino horn, bamboo, wood and gourds, and various soft-stones.

311 Clunas, Craig: EMPIRE OF GREAT BRIGHTNESS. Visual and Material Cultures of Ming China, 1368-1644.London, 2008. 288 pp. Numerous colour and b/w illustrations. 26x20 cm. Cloth. £35.00An innovative and accessible history of a high point in Chinese culture, seen through the riches of its images and objects.

312 Clunas, Craig: PICTURES AND VISUALITY IN EARLY MODERN CHINA. London, 1997. 248 pp. 96illustrations, 16 in colour. 24x16 cm. Cloth. £20.00Complimentary to his books on Ming period collectables and the culture of gardens, Prof. Clunas turns his attention to visual culture,not simply in painting. His fascinating study is a reading of imagery throughout the wide range of Chinese decorative and fine art.

313 Clunas, Craig: SUPERFLUOUS THINGS. Material Culture and Social Status in Early Modern China. Cambridge,1991. vii, 219 pp. 7 plates. 24x16 cm. Cloth. £30.00An extremely important and original book, replete with valuable information about people, things, and collections. It is a manual oftaste and a guide to Ming period consumerism.

314 Cook, Thomas & Son: COOK’S GUIDE TO PEKING. North China, South Manchuria, Korea. Peking, 1924. 2,143 pp. 12 pp. adverts. 3 maps (the Far East region, Beijing and Seoul) and numerous b/w photographs in text. 19x13cm. Cloth. £250.00A travelling companion to ‘this great grandsire of empires’. Good background notes to the hectic sightseeing programmes. Lively ad-vertisement section for hiring or buying anything from a Buick to a squirrel. Fifth edition. A good copy. Scarce.


315 Cooke, Bill: IMPERIAL CHINA. The Art of the Horse in Chinese History. Prospect, 2001. 180 pp. 164 colourillus. 30x22 cm. Paper. £20.00A superb selection of artefacts relating to the horse in Chinese art drawn from museum collections in Shaanxi province, China. Includesbronze fittings, chariots, swords, gold ornaments, tomb figurines from the Tang Yuan and Ming. With useful essays.

316 Curtis, Julia: TRADE TASTE AND TRANSFORMATION: JINGDEZHENPORCELAIN FOR JAPAN 1620-1645. New York, 2006. 135 pp. Numerous colourillustrations. 28x22 cm. Boards. £60.00Catalogue of an excellent exhibition focusing on a particularly interesting period of Chinese ce-ramic production when political and economic uncertainty in China forced manufacturers to lookabroad for markets. Showing over 100 examples, the exhibition examines how Chinese porcelainsadapted to the demands of the Japanese market. All exhibits illustrated and accompanied by an ex-cellent text.

317 Davis, Walter: ALL UNDER HEAVEN. The Chinese World in Maps, Pictures andTexts from the Collection of Floyd Sully. Edmonton, 2013. 128 pp. Numerous colourplates. 32x30 cm. Paper. £38.50Catalogue of an exhibition held at the University of Alberta in 2013 showing fine Chinese maps andpainted manuscript material from the collection of Floyd Sully, together with associated materialfrom the Bruce Peel Special Collections Library at the university. Illustrated throughout and with ex-tensive descriptions.

318 de Hartog, Leo: GENGHIS KHAN. Conqueror of the World. London, 2004. vii, 230 pp. 20x13 cm. Paper.£11.99

Analyses how Genghis Khan was able to unite the Mongol tribes and organise them into such an effective fighting machine. With par-ticular attention paid to the Mongol invasion of Europe and explores Europe’s contacts with the Great Khan. An interesting biogra-phy of a legendary figure. New paperback edition.

319 Dehejia & Davis: THE SENSUOUS AND THE SACRED. Chola Bronzes from South India. Seattle, 2003. 248pp. 185 illustrations, 160 in colour. Glossary, bibliography, index. 30x25 cm. Cloth. £25.00Accompanies a major travelling US exhibition on Chola bronzes at the Sackler Gallery, Washington, the Dallas Museum of Art andthe Cleveland Museum of Art. Well-illustrated and with detailed texts.

320 Dickerson, John: RAKU HANDBOOK. A practical approach to the ceramic art. London, 1972. 112 pp. B/w platesand b/w text drawings 25x19 cm. Cloth, dustjacket. £15.00A welcome and useful guide to the design and production of this ceramic ware long made for the tea ceremony in Japan.

321 Ding Wenfu: ZHONGGUO GUDAI XIUQI JIAJU SHI ZHI SHIBA SHIJI DENGJU DE YANJIU. (Researchinto Chinese Lacquered Furniture Dating from the 10th to 16th Centuries). 中國古代髹漆家具十至十八世紀登據的研究。丁文父著. Beijing, 2012. 367 pp. Numerous colour plates throughout. 29x22 cm. Cloth. £95.00Well-researched volume on early Chinese lacquered furniture. Illustrated with rare examples from the collection of the Gugong Mu-seum in Beijing, the Victoria & Albert Museum, Musée Guimet and elsewhere. Text only in Chinese.

322 Dong Jiancheng photographs; Wang Xirong and Qiao Lihua comp: LU XUN HE TA DE SHAOXING. (Lu Xunand his Shaoxing). 魯迅和他的紹興。董建成攝影；王錫榮、喬麗華選編. Shanghai, 2006. 309 pp. Colourand b/w photographs throughout. 32x21 cm. Cloth. £20.00A photographic essay and selection of related extracts and quotations from the work of Chinese greatest modern fiction writer, this bookprovides a fascinating insight into traditional life in rural China, its material culture and architecture. The photography is really veryfine. Text in Chinese.

323 Downs, Jacques M: THE GOLDEN GHETTO. The American Commercial Community at Canton and the Shapingof American Foreign Policy 1784-1844. Hong Kong, 2015. 496 pp. A few colour and b/w illustrations. 23x16 cm.Boards. £51.00A fascinating, detailed and illustrated account of the life and work of the community of American merchants in Canton during the de-velopment of the China trade, with reflections on the origins of American ‘China policy’. Hong Kong reprint of the 1996 original.

324 Earle, Joe: CONTEMPORARY CLAY. Japanese Ceramics for the New Century. Boston, 2005. 101 pp. Colourplates throughout. 24x23 cm. Paper. £15.00Published in conjunction with an exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Extremely accomplished ceramics by contemporaryJapanese masters.

325 Ebrey, Patricia Buckley: THE CAMBRIDGE ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF CHINA. Cambridge IllustratedHistory. Cambridge, 1996. 352 pp. 120 colour and 80 b/w illustrations. 16 maps. 32x25 cm. Cloth. £15.00In this lavishly illustrated, unique new single-volume history of China, Patricia Ebrey brings academic expertise and a highly engag-ing style to her task of tracing the origins of Chinese culture from prehistoric times and following its development from ancient timetill today. Out of print.

326 Eskenazi: ANCIENT CHINESE BRONZE VESSELS, GILT BRONZES AND SCULPTURES. Two PrivateCollections, One Formerly Part of the Minkenhof Collection. London, 1977. 75 pp. 46 illustrations, 6 in colour.Chronology, brief bibliography. 30x21 cm. Paper. £20.00Mr Minkenhof specialized in gilt bronzes, many of which are Buddhist icons. The foreword is written by Professor Munsterberg. Fea-tures 46 pieces, all illustrated.

327 Eskenazi Ltd: ANCIENT CHINESE SCULPTURE. London, 1978. 85 pp. 29 b/w plates, 13 figures, map.Chronology, brief bibliography. 30x21 cm. Paper. £35.00Introduction by Edmund Capon. Exhibits in stone and wood from across the dynasties.


328 Eskenazi Ltd: ANCIENT CHINESE BRONZES AND GILT BRONZES FROM THE WESSEN AND OTHERCOLLECTIONS. London, 1980. 63 pp. 30 illustrations, 6 in colour; map. Brief bibliography. 29x21 cm. Paper.

£35.00The exhibition includes bronze vessels, mirrors, cosmetic boxes, animal figures, and dress hooks ranging in date from the Shang to theLiao.

329 Eskenazi: CHINESE BUDDHIST SCULPTURE FROM NORTHERN WEI TO MING. New York, 2002. 71pp. 19 pp. colour plates. Colour and b/w illustrations. 30x21 cm. Paper. £25.00Catalogue of Eskenazi’s spring exhibition in New York of 19 superb examples of Chinese sculpture from the Northern Wei to the Mingin various media. Well-illustrated in colour and with detailed descriptions.

330 Eskenazi: EARLY CHINESE ART FROM PRIVATE COLLECTIONS. London, 2016. 103 pp. Colour and b/wplates (many full page) throughout. 33x25 cm. Cloth. £50.00Shows 24 extremely fine examples of early Chinese art from a number of private collections. All illustrated in full page colour platesand described in exhaustive detail. Accompanying essay: Wong: ‘Birds, Bears and Other beasts: Animal Ornament in early ChineseArt’.

331 Eskenazi, John: ART OF GANDHARA. London, 1998. 37 pp. 29 duotone plates. 30x21 cm. Paper. £20.00Dealer’s catalogue for a fine exhibition of Gandharan sculpture art at John Eskenazi Ltd.

332 Fan Fengling: SHI LI HONG ZHUANG: ZHE DONG DIQU MINJIAN JIAZHUANG QIWU YANJIU.(Research into the Dowry Goods of Eastern Zhejiang Province). 十里紅妝：浙東地區民間嫁妆器物研究。范珮玲著. Beijing, 2012. 221 pp. Numerous colour plates throughout. 29x21 cm. Cloth. £95.00A good contribution to a little-published subject. The dowry articles and objects shown are similar to those bestowed as bridaltrousseau throughout rural China. As such this is a good visual reference. Not surprisingly, practically all the objects are an auspi-cious bright red colour, mostly lacquered wood and many with gilt decoration. Includes boxes, containers, mirror sets, chairs, wash-stands, intricately-carved beds, dishes and much more besides. The objects mostly date from the 19th and early 20th centuries.Illustrated throughout. Text only in Chinese.

333 Fengxiang County Museum ed: FENGXIANG YIZHEN: FENGXIANG XIAN BOWUGUAN CANGPINJINGCUI. Treasures in Fengxiang: Essential Collections in the Fengxiang County Museum. 風翔遺真：風翔縣博物館藏品精萃. Xi’an, 2012. 182 pp. Full page colour plates throughout. 29x21 cm. Wrappers. £60.00Shows the finest artefacts in the collection of the Fengxiang Museum in China’s Shaanxi province. The area has a rich archaeologi-cal legacy, demonstrated by the fine quality of the tomb ceramics, ancient bronzes and jades — all illustrated in colour. Near dual textsin Chinese and English, including captions to plates.

334 Fessler, Loren: CHINA. Life World Library. New York, 1963. 176 pp. Lavishly illustrated, maps, appendixes,bibliography. 28x22 cm. Decorated boards. £15.00Written by the Time-Life correspondent on Taiwan, using the Bureau’s extensive files on Chinese affairs to give a comprehensive pic-ture of the Peoples Republic and Hong Kong in the early 1960s. Interesting photographs.

335 Fisher Robert E: BUDDHIST ART AND ARCHITECTURE. London, 1993. 216 pp. 179 illustrations, 32 incolour. 21x15 cm. Paper. £10.00The author describes all the Buddhist schools and cultures and explains their imagery, from Tibetan cosmic diagrams and Korean folkart to early Sri Lankan sites and Japanese Zen gardens.

336 Flacks, Marcus: ZHONGGUO GUDIAN JIAJU: SI FANG GUANDIAN. (Chinese Classical Furniture fromPrivate Collections). 中國古典家具：私房觀點. Beijing, 2012. 277 pp. Full page colour plates throughout. 32x27cm. Cloth. £150.00Illustrates and discusses in detail 52 rare and varied examples of fine Chinese furniture dating from the 16th to 18th centuries. Mosthave never been published before. Accompanied by a historical overview and an examination of the trends and changes in the collectingof Chinese furniture over the last 30 years. Chinese edition of Marcus Flack’s work ‘Classic Chinese Furniture’.

337 Fondazione Galleria Gottardo: MESSAGGI DI PIETRA. Scultura in pietra dell’Indonesia dalle collezioni delmuseo Barbier-Mueller. Milano, 1998. 1, 208 pp. B/w plates and illustrations. 30x23 cm. Wrappers. £20.00Catalogue of an exhibition in Milan of ancient Indonesian stone sculpture from the Barbier-Mueller Museum. Text in Italian. Ex-li-brary copy with just one small stamp on title page.

338 Fong, Mary H: FOUR CHINESE ROYAL TOMBS OF THE EARLY EIGHTH CENTURY. Offprint ArtibusAsiae Vol. XXV:4. Ascona, 1973. Pp. 307-334. 21 illustrations. Glossary. 32x23 cm. Paper. £15.00A discussion of the tombs of Prince Yi De, Prince Zhang Huai, Prince Huai Yang and Princess Yong Tai.

339 Fontein, Jan: THE SCULPTURE OF INDONESIA. New York, 1990. 312 pp. 116 pieces illustrated, chiefly incolour. Many figs. & b/w photographs. 31x23 cm. Paper. £20.00Superbly illustrated catalogue of an exhibition held originally at the National Gallery of Art, Washington. Introduction by Jan Fontein;Essays on ‘Indonesian Architecture of the Classical Period’ & ‘The Making of Indonesian Art’ by R. Soekmono & E. Sedyawati.

340 Forgues, Paul Émile Daurant (Old Nick): LA CHINE OUVERTE. Aventures d’unFan-kouei dans le Pays de Tsin. Paris, 1845. vi, 396 pp. Index. Many b/w textillustrations, some full page. 25x16 cm. Cloth. Top of spine detaching. Wear to covers.

£95.00Divided into three parts : ‘Voyage de l’Etudiant Ping-si’, ‘Les Etudes du Sieou-tsai’, and ‘Le Fan-kouei a Pe-king’. Interesting for its many fine engraved illustrations by August Borget. Text in French.A somewhat inferior copy with wear to covers and some foxing. Priced accordingly.


341 Forrer, Matthi: SURIMONO IN THE RIJKSMUSEUM, AMSTERDAM. Leiden, 2011. 335 pp. Colourillustrations throughout. 30x25 cm. Cloth. £100.00This catalogue includes more than 600 surimono drawn from this splendid collection of Japanese prints. All surimono are reproducedin colour along with extensive descriptions by Matthi Forrer.

342 Forrer, Matthi comp: IN COMMEMORATION OF THE 150TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE ARTIST’SDEATH — HOKUSAI : BRIDGING EAST AND WEST. Tokyo, 1998. 202 pp. Over 162 colour illustrations.Text in English and Japanese. 30x22 cm. Paper. £40.00Catalogue of a travelling exhibition of paintings, prints and books by Hokusai, loaned from international private and public collec-tions. This exhibition explores the theme of ‘western influence in Hokusai’s works’. With two essays: Kobayashi Tadashi: The Masterof Transformation — Katsushika Hokusai; and Matthi Forrer: Western Influences in the Works of Hokusai.

343 Forrer, Matti: HOKUSAI. Prints and Drawings. München, 1991. 216 pp. 120 colour plates, 34 b/w illustrations.27x23 cm. Paper. £15.00This lavishly illustrated monograph accompanied the first exhibition of wonderful prints and drawings by Hokusai held at the RoyalAcademy of Arts, London, November 1991 — February 1992.

344 Fraser, Sarah E. ed: DUNHUANG. A Centennial Commemoration of the Discovery of the Cave Library. Beijing,2000. 188 pp. Over 200 colour illustrations. 29x22 cm. Paper. £25.00English edition of a catalogue of an exhibition at the Museum of History in Beijing to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the dis-covery of the cave library at Dunhuang. Gives much detail on the caves and their art. Shows the caves themselves plus replica statu-ary and mural paintings made for the exhibition. Illustrates paintings, documents, sutras etc. from Dunhuang now held in variousmuseums around the world. There is also a section on the western and Japanese explorers who visited Dunhuang from Stein to Otaniand Oldenberg.

345 Fujian Provincial Museum & Beijing Capital Museum ed: HAISHANG SICHOU ZHI LU. Maritime Silk Route.海上絲綢之路. Beijing, 2014. 315 pp. Full page colour plates. 4 foldout maps. 31x24 cm. Cloth. £95.00Catalogue of an impressive exhibition organized jointly by (and shown at) the Fujian Provincial Museum and the Capital Museum inBeijing and which will then go on to tour cities of Southeast Asia. Explores the history and extent of the Maritime Silk Route whichcarried trade from East and Southeast China along the coasts of China north to the Korean peninsula and south to Southeast Asia,India and beyond to the Arabian Gulf and East Africa. Illustrated throughout with fascinating and fine Chinese artefacts from through-out the centuries pertaining to this maritime trade and cultural exchange.In sections: Riding the Great Waves and Exploring the Open Sea (Prehistory-Qin dynasty, Han dynasty and Three Kingdoms period);Prosperous Ports and Extended Sea Routes (From Jin to Tang and the Five Dynasties); Clouds of Sails in the Sea and Thousands ofCountries to Trade (Song and Yuan Dynasties); Global Voyaging and the Decline of Maritime Silk Road (Ming and Qing Dynasties).Loans from museums throughout China, mainly those whose province or location borders the sea. Also a few loans from museums out-side China. Prefaces, brief introductions to each section and captions to plates in English. Main text (including essays) in Chinese.

346 Garner, Sir Harry M: CHINESE AND ASSOCIATED LACQUER. From the Garner Collection. London, 1973.48 pp. 83 plates, 1 in colour. 21x15 cm. Paper. £10.00Exhibition catalogue from the British Museum.

347 Garner, Sir Harry M: RYUKYU LACQUER. Percival David Monograph Series No. 1. London, 1972. 52 pp. 24b/w plates, map. 23x18 cm. Paper. £15.00

348 Gerard Hawthorn Ltd. Oriental Art: ORIENTAL WORKS OF ART & CHINESE AND JAPANESE ANDJAPANESE SCULPTURE. London, 2000-2007. Various paginations. c.50 pp. Colour illustrations throughout. 9vols. 30x21 cm. Paper. £60.00Nine catalogues issued between 2000 and 2007 by this well-known London dealer in oriental art. Six on Chinese and Japanese sculp-ture in various media and three on oriental works of art.

349 Gongwangfu Museum ed: MEI XIANG CUI YA: SICHUAN SUINING SONGDAI YAO CANG CIQI ZHAN.Suining of Sichuan Province Song Dynasty Cellaring Chinaware Exhibition. 梅香翠雅：四川遂寧宋代窯藏瓷器展. Beijing, 2010. 112 pp. Colour plates throughout, the majority full page. 29x22 cm. Boards. £95.00Catalogue of a little-publicized exhibition at the Gongwangfu Palace in Beijing showing a fine selection of Song dynasty ceramics fromthe famous find in a cellar/pit at Suining in China’s Sichuan province. Around 50 beautiful celadons and qingbai wares are illustratedin fine colour plates. Text in Chinese.

350 Gongyi Municipal Office for Preservation of Ancient Monuments: HUANGYE TANG SANCAI YAO. Three-colour Glazed Pottery Kilns of the Tang Dynasty at Huangye. 黃冶唐三彩窯. Beijing, 2000. xviii, 81 pp. text plus74 pp. colour and 34 pp. b/w plates. 29x22 cm. Boards. £45.00An interesting report of finds of Tang sancai (tricolour) wares at the Huangye kiln in Henan province. Very well-illustrated with nu-merous pieces (bowls, small figurines, tripods, animals, shards, moulds) in many different forms. Text in Chinese only.

351 THE GRAND CANAL OF CHINA. Hong Kong, 1984. 251 pp. Colour photographic illustrations throughout.29x24 cm. Cloth, dustjacket. £20.00Great photo journey along the Grand Canal in China in the early 1980s when life was much more ‘traditional’ than today. A good andinteresting text accompanies.

352 Grand Palais: MÉMOIRE D’EMPIRE. Trésors du Musée National du Palais, Taipei. Paris, 1998. XXVIII, 423pp. 273 items illustrated, chiefly in colour plates, often with details. Notes, reproductions of inscriptions,bibliography. 31x23 cm. Paper. £45.00Catalogue of an exhibition at the Grand Palais of nearly 300 artworks from the National Palace Museum in Taiwan. Entirely differ-ent from the selection of works shown at the Metropolitan Museum (Possessing the Past) exhibition which toured America in 1996 and1997. Demonstrates the depth, breadth and quality of this fabulous collection. In French.


353 Gray, Basil: AN EXHIBITION OF CHINESE CERAMICS FROM SIR ALAN BARLOW’S COLLECTION.London, 1953. 16 pp. text plus 8 pp. b/w plates. 22x14 cm. Paper. £10.00Arts Council exhibition catalogue.

354 Griaznov, M: DREVNYEE ISKUSSTVO ALTAYA/L’ART ANCIEN DE L’ALTAI. (Ancient Art from the AltaiRegion). Leningrad, 1958. 25 pp. text. 64 plates. 29x23 cm. Paper. £40.00Features mainly objects of wood and textiles from the Altai region held in the collection of the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg.Text both in Russian and French. Loss to top of spine. a scarce catalogue.

355 Griswold, Alexander. B: ART OF THE WORLD: BURMA KOREA TIBET. London, 1964. 277 pp. Colour &b/w plates and illustrations throughout. 23x18 cm. Cloth. £15.00A fine survey of the art of Burma, Korea and Tibet.

356 Gropper, Doris et al: KUNST AN DER SEIDENSTRASSE FASZINATION BUDDHA. (Art from the Silk Road:The Fascination of the Buddha). Hamburg, 2003. 144 pp. Colour plates. 28x22 cm. Cloth, dustjacket. £40.00Catalogue of an exhibition held at the Museum fur Indische Kunst in Berlin. The exhibits from the Museum’s collections. Ranges fromGandharan statuary to early Silk Road textiles. Well-illustrated. In German.

357 Gu Jingzhou et al. ed: MING HU JING YAN. Charm of Dark-Red Pottery Teapots. 茗壺競艷。顧景舟等編.Nanjing, 1992. vii, 175 pp. Colour illustrations throughout. 26x26 cm. Boards. £40.00An overview of the dark-red zisha teapot, chosen and edited by a famous Yixing potter. Plentifully illustrated with examples from the17th century to the present day. In English and Chinese.

358 Guangdong Museum: CHAOZHOU MUDIAO. Chaozhou Woodcarving. 潮州木雕. Beijing, 2004. 24, 255 pp.254 pp. colour plates. 29x22 cm. Boards. £55.00A very well-illustrated work on the unsurpassed Chaozhou woodcarving collection of the Guangdong Museum. Nearly 200 extremelyfine examples, indeed many spectacular, with gilt decoration are shown in good colour plates. The pieces date from the Qing dynastyand Republic period. Brief captions in English to all plates, otherwise Chinese text. A recommended work on the subject.

359 Guangzhou Museum ed: GEMING ZAI GEMING: CONG XINGZHONG HUI DAO GUANGZHOUZHENGUAN. Revolution Once More: Dr Sun Yat-sen from Xing Zhong Hui to the Government in Guangzhou.革命在革命：从興中到廣洲政權. Beijing, 2011. 175 pp. Numerous b/w and colour plates throughout. 28x19cm. Paper. £45.00Catalogue of an exhibition at the Guangzhou Museum in 2011 celebrating the centenary of the 1911 Xinhai Revolution in China and,in particular, assessing the role of Dr. Sun Yatsen. Numerous documents, photographs and other artefacts are illustrated. Dual textsin Chinese and English.

360 Gugong Museum: CINING GONG HUAYUAN. Garden of the Palace of Motherly Tranquility. 慈寧宮花園。故宮博物院編. Beijing, 2015. 383 pp. Colour plates, many full page, throughout. 29x21 cm. Wrappers. £90.00A detailed survey of the garden adjacent to the Cining Gong (Palace of Motherly Tranquility) located on the western axis of the For-bidden City. Cining Gong is famous as the residence of the much-adored mother of the Qianlong emperor, the Dowager EmpressChongqing. The garden was for her personal use and within lies a pavilion built over water, the Xianruo Guan, that houses many Bud-dhist artefacts and which was the preferred place of worship for the Empress and her ladies. The whole area has recently been restoredand reopened to the public. This work explores the garden and, in particular, the many beautiful Buddhist objects in the pavilion which,until now, were little-known and unpublished. These include much Buddhist statuary and paintings, together with some textiles andritual implements. Illustrated throughout with colour plates. Text in Chinese.

361 Gugong Museum: WAN ZHE HUIHUA. Paintings of Anhui and Zhejiang. 皖浙繪畫. Complete Collection ofTreasures Gugong, 9. Shanghai, 2007. 230 pp. Colour plates throughout. 29x22 cm. Boards. £80.00Shows 118 wonderful examples of paintings and painting albums by artists from China’s Anhui and Zhejiang provinces. The paintingsare held in the collection of the Gugong Museum in Beijing and include paintings from the Qing court collection plus examples lateraccessioned. Illustrated throughout in colour. Captions in English, otherwise Chinese text.

362 Gugong Museum: ZHU MU YA JIAO DIAOKE. (Bamboo, Wood, Ivory and Horn Carving). 竹木牙角雕刻.Complete Collection of Treasures Gugong, 44. Shanghai, 2001. 304 pp. Colour plates throughout. 29x22 cm.Boards. £80.00Volume 44 in this series show 248 wonderful examples of carving in various media held in the collection of the Gugong in Beijing. Ex-cellent colour plates, most objects show in multiple views or close-up detail. English plate captions, otherwise Chinese text only.

363 Gugong Museum: ZANGCHUAN FOJIAO ZAOXIANG. (Buddhist Statues of Tibet). 藏傳佛教造像. CompleteCollection of Treasures Gugong, 60. Shanghai, 2003. 30, 271 pp. 260 colour plates. 29x22 cm. Boards. £90.00Presents 260 of the finest Tibetan Buddhist statues in the Forbidden City collection. The majority are published for the first time. Manywere gifts offered in tribute to Ming and Qing emperors. An excellent survey of an extraordinary collection. Captions in English, oth-erwise Chinese text. Out-of-print and hard to find.

364 Gugong Museum: GUGONG BOWUYUAN CANG DEHUA YAO CIQI. Dehua Wares Collected by the PalaceMuseum. 故宮博物院藏德化窯瓷器. Beijing, 2016. 651 pp. Full page colour plates throughout both volumes. 2vols. 29x29 cm. Boards. £250.00Large and weighty two-volume work on Dehua wares — blanc-de-chine — held in the Gugong Palace Museum collection in Beijing.Shows 303 exquisite examples from the Gugong Palace Museum’s little-known collection of these wares. Many examples here publishedfor the first time. A wide variety of shapes and forms, including numerous figurines. Includes a very good amount of Ming and transi-tional material. The remainder (and majority) Qing. All examples published in full page colour, many in multiple views and with basesshown. Numerous pieces illustrated actual size. Preface, abstract of essay, list of plates and captions to plates in English. Main textin Chinese. Excellent visual and research reference. The first comprehensive publication on the Gugong Museum’s collection of blanc-de-chine and a major addition to the literature on the subject. Recommended. We are now advised this work is going out-of-print dueto interest by collectors in China.


365 Gugong Museum: GUGONG DIAOKE ZHENCUI. The Palace Museum Collection of Elite Carvings. 故宮雕刻珍萃. Beijing, 2002. 276 pp. Colour plates throughout. 30x22 cm. Cloth. £80.00Extensive and very well-illustrated book on Ming and Qing Chinese carving based on the finest pieces in the Gugong Museum col-lections, documenting 224 items in sections devoted to bamboo, wood, ivory and rhinoceros horn. With English summary, list of platesand captions, otherwise Chinese.

366 Guillon, Emmanuel: CHAM ART. Treasures of the Da Nang Museum, Vietnam. London, 2000. 208 pp. 200 colourillustrations 26x18 cm. Paper. £15.00The first substantial book in English to be published on the art of Champa, which flourished from the 2nd to the 19th centuries in whatis now central and southern Vietnam, and is one of the least-known of all the Indianized civilizations of Southeast Asia. Amongst otheritems, the book illustrates over 100 major sculptures from the Da Nang Museum, but also provides an overview of Cham art history.

367 Gulbenkian Museum: ART AND TAO. An exhibition of Taoist Symbolism in Chinese Art. Durham, 1972. 24 pp.12 b/w plates. 21x15 cm. Paper. £15.00With an ‘Introduction to Taoist Art’ by I. L. Legeza, brief catalogue of an exhibition at the museum in Durham, England with a num-ber of relevant objects in porcelain, jade, etc.

368 Hackin, J. & Carl, J: RECHERCHES ARCHEOLOGIQUES AU COL DE KHAIR KHANEH PRES DEKABUL. Memoires de la Delegation Archeologique Francaise En Afghanistan: Tome VII. Paris, 1936. 39 pp. textand xxiv b/w plates. A few b/w text drawings and one map. 38x28 cm. Wrappers. £20.00Important documentation of sites and finds made in this area close to Kabul in Afghanistan. Text in French. Ex-library copy.

369 Hall, D. G. E: A HISTORY OF SOUTH-EAST ASIA. London, 1993. xxiv, 1019 pp. Appendix, Bibliography,Index. 2 foldout maps. 43 illustrations. 22x14 cm. Paper. £15.00A useful and very detailed history with much on European expansion and colonialism. Fourth edition.

370 Hansford, S. Howard & Ayers, John: THE SELIGMAN COLLECTION OF ORIENTAL ART. London, 1966.68 pp. Many illustrations. 30x21 cm. Paper. £10.00Catalogue of the Arts Council exhibition of Chinese, Central Asian and Luristan bronzes, Chinese jade and sculpture, and Chinese andKorean ceramics.

371 Harada Yoshito: SHINA TODAI NO FUKUSHOKU. (Tang Period Chinese Dress and Ornaments). 支那唐代の服飾。原田淑人著. Journal of the College of Literature 4. Tokyo, 1921. 12, 110, 7 pp. 13 text-illustrations, 16pp. b/w plates with many illustrations, 1 in colour. 26x19 cm. Paper. Some wear to spine. £250.00An early contribution to research into Chinese dress of the Tang period as evidenced by mainly tomb figurines and textiles. Many ex-amples illustrated. Text in Japanese. Rare.

372 Harrist, Robert E. Jr: POWER AND VIRTUE. The Horse in Chinese Art. New York, 1997. 136 pp. 30 colourplates, 20 text figures, many in colour. Notes, bibliography, selected glossary. 28x22 cm. Paper. £15.00Fine catalogue of an exhibition at the China Institute Gallery concentrating on equestrian topics, with Han, Wei and Tang figurines,and a significant collection of paintings from the Tang onwards. Includes contributions by Virginia Bower.

373 Hay, John: KERNELS OF ENERGY, BONES OF EARTH. The Rock in Chinese Art. New York, 1985. 160 pp.71 plates and illustrations, 2 maps. 28x22 cm. Paper. £200.00China House exhibition catalogue, illustrating the rock’s important role in Chinese art and civilization. This is so far one of the besttreatises in English language on the art of Chinese stones and rocks. Scarce and sought-after.

374 He Zhengguang et al ed: GUDAI TAOCI DAQUAN (QUAN TAO). Chinese Ceramics: A Complete Set. 陶瓷大全 (全套）：古代漢唐宋元明代清代. Zhongguo Taoci Dashi. Taibei, 1989. 478; 604; 680; 591; 516 pp.Colour plates and numerous text figures throughout each volume. 5 vols. 21x15 cm. Cloth. £180.00Complete set of this profusely-illustrated work on Chinese ceramics published in Taiwan. Thousands of fine ceramics are shown. Thefive volumes chronologically cover the history of Chinese ceramics as follows: Ancient Stage; Han Tang; Song Yuan; Ming; Qing. Chi-nese text but with text captions in English. A useful guide.

375 He Zhengguang et al. ed: GUDAI YUDIAO DAQUAN. The Archaic Jade. 古代玉雕大全。何政廣等主編.Zhongguo Wenwu Daxi 2. Taibei, 1991. 417 pp. Over 350 colour plates. 22x16 cm. Cloth. £45.00Profusely-illustrated work on Chinese jades. Plate captions in English. Main text in Chinese.

376 He Zhengguang et al. ed: ZHONGGUO YUQI DAQUAN. The Chinese Jades. 中國玉器大全。何政廣等主編. Zhongguo Wenwu Daxi 1. Taibei, 1991. 436 pp.Colour plates throughout. 22x16 cm. Cloth. £40.00Copiously-illustrated work on Chinese jades. The jades from Taiwan collections. Scarce. Plate captions in English. Main text in Chi-nese.

377 Hearn, Maxwell K: SPLENDORS OF IMPERIAL CHINA. Treasures from the National Palace Museum Taipei.New York, 1996. 144 pp. Numerous colour plates. Paper. £15.00Published in connection with the exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum, this book illustrates highlights of the exhibited objects.

378 Hearn, Maxwell K & Judith G. Smith ed: ARTS OF THE SUNG AND YÜAN. Papers Prepared for an InternationalSymposium. New York, 1996. 373 pp. 155 illustrations. Plus supplement 23 pp. 9 illustrations. 2 vols. 27x19 cm.Paper. £25.00A symposium organized by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in conjunction with the exhibition Splendors of Imperial China. 18 arti-cles by prominent scholars on various aspects of Song and Yüan period arts.


379 Helman, Isidor Stanislas Henri: FAITS MEMORABLES DES EMPEREURS DE LA CHINE. Tires des AnnalesChinoises. Paris, 1788. Engraved throughout, comprising title, dedication and 24 plates, each with leaf of text,contemporary mottled calf, spine gilt. 27x20 cm. Half leather with marbled boards. £1,800.00Contains 24 exquisitely-engraved scenes (each with an accom-panying page of text) by Helman showing memorable deeds ofthe Emperors of China throughout history, taken from the Chi-nese annals. The plates are printed on one leaf with facing adja-cent descriptive texts. The plates were engraved from originalChinese drawings in the cabinet of Bertin (now held in the Bib-liothèque Nationale, France) and are said to have been derivedfrom a Chinese work. Text in French. In fine condition. Some fox-ing, the plates generally clean. The binding probably somewhatlater — 19th century. An attractive work.

380 Higgins, Kitty & David Kenny: CHINESE STONESCULPTURE. Washington, 1984. 68 pp. 28 plates,some in colour. 27x20 cm. Paper. £10.00An exhibition and sale catalogue at the authors’ gallery.

381 Hillier, Jack Ronald: THE ART OF HOKUSAI INBOOK ILLUSTRATION. London, 1980. 288 pp.bibliography, appendix, glossary, index, 40 colour, 200b/w illustrations. 31x25 cm. Cloth. £20.00An analytical discourse on the illustrative accomplishments ofHokusai, tracing the evolution of his print designs. Abrams D10.

382 Hillier, Jack Ronald: HOKUSAI. Paintings, Drawingsand Woodcuts. London, 1955. 134 pp. 18 colour plates,116 illustrations. Chronology, glossary & bibliography.31x23 cm. Printed cloth. £15.00The history of western appreciation of the pictorial art of Japancan be studied in all its phases through the work of Hokusai. Firstedition of a now classic book. Abrams M127.

383 Hillier, Jack Ronald: HOKUSAI DRAWINGS.London, 1966. 129 pp. 110 plates & illustrations. 31x23cm. Cloth. £20.00A good selection of Hokusai’s drawings reproduced on a gener-ous scale. Numerous subjects depicted. A pleasing work by an au-thority on the subject.

384 Hillier, Jack Ronald & Lawrence Smith: JAPANESE PRINTS. 300 Years of Albums and Books. London, 1980.144 pp. 141 plates and illustrations, 16 coloured. Glossary and index. 28x22 cm. Paper. £15.00Prints published in albums and illustrated books are treated in this work inspired by an exhibition of the Hillier Collection at theBritish Museum. Abrams D11.

385 Hinsch, Bret: PASSIONS OF THE CUT SLEEVE. The Male Homosexual Tradition in China. Berkeley, 1990.xvii, 232 pp. A couple of b/w text illustrations. 24x16 cm. Paper. £15.00This thorough study discusses the rich and fascinating tradition of male homosexual practice in China from the Bronze Age throughChinese history up to the end of the Qing.

386 Hiraoka Takeo; Yang Lisan trans: CHANG’AN YU LUOYANG. (Chang’an and Luoyang). 長安與洛陽（地圖）。平岡武夫著；楊勵三譯. Xi’an, 1957. 86 pp. text. 30 folding maps. 25x18 cm. Paper booklet, and loosesheets, in cloth case. £150.00Folding maps and descriptions of the Tang period cities of Chang’an and Luoyang. With much detail showing streets, palaces, gar-dens. A scarce work. In Chinese.

387 Hoghton, Lady de: EXHIBITION OF CHINESE TEA WARE. Yi Xing Purple Clay. London, 1986. 25 pp. 20b/w illustrations. 30x21 cm. Paper. £15.00The catalogue of an exhibition held at Hoghton Tower in Lancashire. The pots illustrated date from the 18th–20th century.

388 Hong Kong Museum of Art: CHINESE JADE ANIMALS. Zhongguo XiaoshengYudiao. 中國肖生玉雕. Hong Kong, 1996. 190 pp. 181 colour plates, 5 colour textillustrations. 33x23 cm. Paper. £80.00Catalogue of a pleasing exhibition of jade animal carving with exhibits dating from the Neolithic pe-riod to the Qing. Good colour plates and a good reference on these pleasing and highly-collectableobjects. Text in English and Chinese. Out-of-print and now hard to find. Slight wear to covers. In-ternally fine.

389 Howard, Angela Falco, Li Song, Wu Hung and Yang Hong: CHINESESCULPTURE. The Culture & Civilization of China. New Haven, 2006. 521 pp. 468colour and 53 b/w plates. Maps, chronologies. Bibliography, index. 30x23 cm. Cloth.£45.00


Destined to be a standard reference on the subject for some time to come, this comprehensive treatment is divided into two majorparts, on secular (tomb and mortuary art) and religious (Buddhist, Confucianist, and Daoist) sculpture. Angela Falco Howard and LiSong provide introductory texts and cover the religious traditions from Han to Southern Song, and Northern Song to Qing, respectively.Wu Hung writes on the secular tradition from Neolithic to the Han, and Yang Hong takes up secular sculpture from Han to the Qing.

390 Hu Hongqing et al. ed: GAOCHANG YISHU YANJIU. (Research into the Art of Gaochang). 高昌藝術研究。胡洪慶等主編. Shanghai, 2014. 249 pp. Numerous colour text plates. 29x21 cm. Boards. £110.00Detailed study of the art and artefacts found at the ancient Silk Road site of the city of Gaochang located near Turfan in China’s Xin-jiang province. Well-illustrated with numerous pictures of the site and artefacts from various periods when the city flourished. A goodcontribution to the sparse literature on Gaochang. In Chinese.

391 Huang Wuda ed: RIZHI SHIQI TAIWAN DUSHI FAZHAN DITU JI. Atlas of the Development of TaiwanCities 1895-1945. 日治時期臺灣都市發展地圖集。黃武達編著. Taibei, 2006. Five collectanea of maps (manyfolding) measuring 60x43 cm and two smaller supplementary text volumes measuring approximately 26x36 cm)Supplement volumes 62; 36 pp. 7 vols. 60x43 cm. Paper. Cloth case. £700.00Huge and weighty seven part work (five collectanea of facsimiles of maps measuring 60x43 cm and two smaller supplementary textvolumes measuring approximately 26x36 cm) reproducing maps of Taiwan from the period 1895-1945 that chronologically trace thedevelopment of the major cities of Taiwan during this time and also contain numerous single maps from minor cities and small townsdating from the same period. All maps are reproduced in their original size and to a high quality. A total of 155 maps show 74 citiesand towns. Includes 5 maps of Jilong (Keemun), 10 maps of Taibei, 10 maps of Tainan, 7 maps of Zhanghua, 9 maps of Jiayi, 10 mapsof Tainan and 8 of Gaoxiong. The first (and larger) supplementary volume contains two essays providing background and context tothe work. The essays are: ‘An Introduction to Taiwan City Plans During the Japanese Colonial Period’ and, secondly: ‘InterpretingTaiwan City Maps of the Japanese Colonial Period’. The second supplementary volume provides a handy reference to the maps hav-ing listings and small reproductions of all the maps in the five larger collectanea. A prime reference. In Chinese.

392 Huntington, John C. and Dina Bangdel: THE CIRCLE OF BLISS. BuddhistMeditational Art. Columbus, 2003. 560 pp. 157 items illustrated in colour plates withdetails, etc. Numerous figures and diagrams. Appendixes, glossary, bibliography,index. 32x25 cm. Cloth. £150.00Monumental catalogue of an exhibition shown at Columbus Museum of Art and LACMA, this is amajor contribution to the study and history of Himalayan Buddhist Art, one that focuses on the rea-sons for the creation of this art as an aspect of the interpretation and physical embodiment of spe-cific Buddhist practices. Extensive, closely written text and good apparatus accompanies fineillustrations of 157 pieces from both public and private collections, some of them previously unpub-lished. Recommended.

393 HUSHE YUEKAN. Hu Sher Art Magazine. 湖社月刊. Beijing, 1927-36. 47 standardmicrofiche. 11x16 cm. Microfiche £50.00Extensive run of the important and scarce illustrated periodical, reproduced on microfiche. The runis from nos. 1 to 100, lacking 76-77, 80-81, 96-97, 99.

394 Hutt, Michael et al: NEPAL. A Guide to the Art and Architecture of the Kathmandu Valley. Stirling, 1994. 232 pp.175 illustrations, 16 pp. in colour. 11 figures. 22 maps and plans. 25x20 cm. Cloth. £15.00This book is the product of many years of individual research by scholars of Nepal’s history, religion, art and sociology.

395 International Cultural Society of Korea: CLASSICAL KOREAN EMBROIDERIES. London, 1984. 38 pp.illustrating 37 exhibits on 26 colour plates, 4 folding. Index. 24x25 cm. Paper. £10.00Illustrated catalogue of an exhibition held at the Victoria and Albert Museum.

396 Itoh Ikutaro et al ed: EXHIBITION OF CHINESE CERAMIC PILLOWS FROM YEUNG WING TAKCOLLECTION. Osaka, 1984. 246 pp. 126 plates, 32 in colour, numerous illustrations. Chronology & bibliography.27x23 cm. Wrappers. £50.00126 pillows each illustrated twice: in colour and again in black and white, from several angles. Text in Chinese, Japanese and English.Travelling exhibition to Nezu Institute, MOA, and Museum of Oriental Ceramics.

397 Jenkins, Donald: MASTERWORKS IN WOOD: CHINA AND JAPAN. New York, 1976. 136 pp. 70 illustrations.27x23 cm. Paper. £15.00Asia House Gallery exhibition catalogue.

398 Jenyns, S., Watson, W., Lion-Goldschmidt, D. et al: CHINESE ART. Chinese Art — Volumes I, II and III. Oxford,1980-81. 263; 277; 243 pp. 198 colour and 427 b/w illustrations. 3 vols. 28x22 cm. Cloth. £40.00A three volume set of the revised editions of this well-regarded and long out-of-print work on Chi-nese art written by acknowledged experts. Volume I covers bronzes, jade, sculpture and ceramics. Vol-ume II discusses gold, silver, later bronzes, cloisonné, Cantonese enamel, lacquer, furniture andwood. Volume III considers textiles, glass and painting on glass, carvings in ivory and rhinoceroshorn, carvings in hardstones, snuff bottles, inkcakes and inkstones.

399 Jessup, Helen: MILLENNIUM OF GLORY: SCULPTURE OF ANGKOR ANDANCIENT CAMBODIA. London, 1997. 400 pp. 240 illustrations, 180 in colour30x22 cm. Cloth. £30.00Published to coincide with the exhibition showing in Paris and Washington, the book examines thepowerful culture that flourished between 600 and 1600 AD, culminating with the construction ofAngkor Wat in the 12th century. An important work giving insights into a little-known culture.


400 JIAJIANG QIANFO YAN: SICHUAN JIAJIANG QIANFO YAN GUDAI MOYA ZAOXIANG KAOGUDIAOCHA BAOGAO. (The Thousand Buddha Cliff at Jiajiang: An Archaeological Investigation and Report intothe Ancient Cliff Sculptures at Jiajiang in Sichuan Province). 夾江千佛岩：四川夾江千佛岩古代磨�造像考古調查報告. Beijing, 2012. 17, 466 pp. text plus 181 pp. colour plates. Numerous b/w text drawings (a number offoldouts). 29x22 cm. Cloth. £110.00A very detailed survey and report on this little-known Buddhist cave complex in China’s Sichuan province which dates from the Tangdynasty. Two page abstract in English. Main text in Chinese,.

401 JIANGTUN HAN MU. Han Dynasty Cemetery in Jiangtun. 姜屯漢墓. Beijing, 2012. iv, 17, 567, 7 pp. text plus264 pp. colour plates. Numerous b/w text drawings. 2 vols. 29x22 cm. Boards. £170.00Highly detailed two-volume archaeological report of this Han dynasty cemetery located in Liaoning province in north-east China. Atotal of 212 tombs were excavated and yielded many grave goods, in particular, copious amounts of Han dynasty pottery and tomb ce-ramics. Of most interest is a large number of small metal objects including chariot fittings, finials to bows, door fittings and much else.Volume One comprises the text of the report. Volume Two is comprised almost entirely of colour plates illustrating the site and a largenumber of the finds. Two page English abstract. Main text in Chinese.

402 Jiangxi Sheng Bowuguan: XINGAN SHANGDAI DA MU. The Large Shang Tomb in Xingan. 新干商代大墓.Beijing, 1997. 18, 333 pp. text and 88 pp. colour and b/w plates. 5 pp. English abstract. 27x19 cm. Cloth. £50.00Discovered in 1989 in Jiangxi Province, the chief glory of the tomb are the bronzes, striking for their craftsmanship, shape and largenumber. Includes many previously unseen forms in the archaeology of Southern China. Other artefacts include jades and proto-porce-lain objects. Five page English abstract. Main text in Chinese.

403 JINXIU ZHONGHUA. Magnificent China. 錦繡中華 . Hong Kong, 1972. 523 pp. c.2000 colour and b/wphotographs and illustrations. 38x27 cm. Cloth. Turquoise embroidered silk covers. £300.00A true period piece from the early 1970s showing the scenery and landscape of a China then almost entirely closed to the outside world.What is most astonishing from today’s perspective is just how deserted are the major tourist sights! Photographs from throughout thecountry. Also includes a section on arts and crafts which show artefacts in various media. Illustrated throughout with colour andblack-and-white photographs including many full page colour plates and a number of colour foldouts. Preface and captions of vary-ing length in English. Main text in Chinese. In mint condition as new. Benefits from an iridescent turquoise and gold embroidered silkcover. The first time we have seen this work.

404 Kaikodo: KAIKODO JOURNAL XIX. A Natural selection. New York, 2001. 356 pp. Numerous colour plates andb/w text illustrations. 30x21 cm. Paper. £20.00Kaikodo’s Spring 2001 exhibition of 90 fine paintings and works of art, well-illustrated and with detailed scholarly descriptions. Inaddition there are three interesting essays: McDermott: Chinese Lenses and Chinese Art; Cahill: Two Palace Museums: An InformalAccount of Their Formation and History; Rogers: Lives of the Painters: Li T’ang (ca. 1080-ca. 1163).

405 Kaner, Simon ed: THE POWER OF DOGU. Ceramic Figures from Ancient Japan. London, 2009. 144 pp. 150colour illustrations. 27x22 cm. Paper. £10.00Catalogue of an exhibition at the British Museum showing the beauty and power of these enigmatic ceramic masterpieces from an-cient Japan.

406 Kann, Eduard: THE CURRENCIES OF CHINA. An Investigation of Silver & Gold Transactions Affecting China.Shanghai, 1926. xlxviii, 540 pp. Colour frontispiece, 5 plates. 5x17 cm. Cloth. £60.00First edition of a book containing a wealth of information on gold and silver production in China, as well as copper manufacturing.

407 Kawagoe City Museum: THE KAWAGOE NAGAKAWA RIVER FESTIVAL. 川越冰川祭禮的展開. 1996.110 pp. All 83 exhibits illustrated in colour. 2 foldouts. 29x21 cm. Paper. £35.00Catalogue of an exhibition exploring the history and associated art of this well-known river festival whose highlight is the intricatefloats both waterborne and paraded through the streets. The exhibits mainly comprise ukiyo-e and fine handscrolls showing the floatprocessions. In Japanese.

408 Kawagoe City Museum: THE PERIOD OF THE THREE TOKUGAWA SHOGUN AND KAWAGOE. 德川三代の時代と川越. 2000. 83 pp. Numerous colour illustrations. 29x21 cm. Paper. £25.00Catalogue of an exhibition at the Kawagoe City Museum examining the relationship between the first three Tokugawa Shogun and theKawagoe area. Features portrait paintings of the shogun, screens and fine handscrolls. In Japanese.

409 Kerr, Rose: SONG DYNASTY CERAMICS. London, 2004. 128 pp. 120 colourillustrations. Select bibliography, index. 24x21 cm. Cloth. £90.00Highlights and discusses over 200 objects from the V&A’s magnificent collection of Song ceramicsincluding all the famous wares. Incorporates the latest archaeological and scholarly research. Beau-tifully illustrated and including many pictures of bases and marks. An excellent reference. Out-of-print.

410 Kerr, Rose and John Ayers: BLANC DE CHINE. Porcelain from Dehua. Chicago,2002. 165 pp. Over 150 colour plates. Bibliography. 29x24 cm. Cloth. £60.00The Hickley collection of Blanc de Chine comprises over 160 fine pieces from the Song dynasty on-wards, many with excellent provenance. The collection exhibits a wide range of both popular and rarepieces. Each piece is illustrated and well-described. An excellent reference, with additional contri-butions by Heidi Tan, Chumei Ho, Kenson Kwok and Eva Ströber. Out-of-print.*


411 Keverne, Roger: JADE. London, 1991. 368 pp. Over 450 illustrations. 33x24 cm. Cloth. £60.00With seven chapters on Chinese, and others on Pacific, European, Burmese, Islamic & Mughal and American jades, as well as achronology, glossaries, and an extensive bibliography, this new volume is an essential handbook for all collectors and students ofjade.

412 Khandalavala, Karl J. ed: INDIAN BRONZE MASTERPIECES. The Great Tradition. New Delhi, 1988. 180pp. 174 plates and illustrations, mostly in colour. 31x27 cm. Cloth. £30.00Specially published for the Festival of India. A lavishly illustrated book with contributions by various scholars.

413 Kim Young Na: TWENTIETH-CENTURY KOREAN ART. London, 2006. 284 pp.217 colour illustrations. 24x18 cm. Paper. £15.00Describes the largely undocumented modern and contemporary art scene in Korea. Well-illustrated.

414 Kim, Jae-yeol: HANDBOOK OF KOREAN ART: WHITE PORCELAIN ANDPUNCH’ONG WARE. London, 2003. 312 pp. 210 colour illustrations. Maps (of kilnsites). Chronology, table of decorative patterns, bibliography. 17x13 cm. Paper.

£15.00Beautifully-illustrated and packed with information, this is one of four recently issued handy guidesto Korean art by major authorities in the field.

415 Kimbell Art Museum ed: THE PATH TO ENLIGHTENMENT. Masterpieces ofBuddhist Sculpture from the ... Musée Guimet, Paris. Fort Worth, 1996. 72 pp. Colourillustrations throughout. 28x21 cm. Paper. £10.00Exhibition at the Kimball Art Museum (and the Idemitsu in Tokyo) of masterpieces of Buddhist sculp-ture from Afghanistan, Cambodia, China, Japan etc. Exhibits from the collection of Musée Guimet,Paris.

416 Klimburg-Salter, D: DISCOVERING TIBET. The Tucci Expeditions and Tibetan Paintings. 2015. 285 pp. Colourplates throughout, a good number full page. 29x25 cm. Boards. £36.00The Italian scholar and explorer, Giuseppe Tucci, travelled in the Indian Himalayas and Tibet on various expeditions from 1926-1948.During that time he acquired over 200 Tibetan paintings as well as Sanskrit and Tibetan manuscripts. Numerous Tibetan paintings fromhis collection are here illustrated and described in detail together with accounts of his expeditions. A fascinating work.

417 THE LADY OF THE DECORATION. London, c. 1905. 209 pp. 8 mounted colourplates by Wakana Utigawa. 20x16 cm. Decorated cloth, t.e.g. £50.00Author unknown — possibly Fannie Caldwell Macauley. Written as a series of letters to a friend de-tailing her experiences in Japan at the turn of the 20th century. A pretty book in good condition. Thebook is illustrated with the aesthetic designs of Wakana Utigawa. Rare.

418 Lai Suk Yee and Bartholomew, T. ed: THEMES AND VARIATIONS — THEZISHA POTTERY OF CHEN MINGYUAN. 紫泥清韻。陳鳴遠陶藝研究. HongKong, 1997. 220 pp. 128 colour plates. 29x22 cm. Cloth. £80.00Chen Mingyuan of the early Qing period was highly influential in the history of Yixing creating zishaclay objects for the scholar’s table, archaistic vessels, teawares etc. This catalogue shows 100 ob-jects by Chen from the Hong Kong and Shanghai Museums. Chinese and English. Scarce

419 Lai, T. C: CHINESE CALLIGRAPHY. An Introduction. Seattle, 1982. xvii, 254 pp.Numerous b/w illustrations. Bibliography, glossary, index. 22x14 cm. Paper. £10.00Revised edition of the 1974 version, Ranges from the oracle bone inscriptions to modern calligra-phy. Also includes a short chapter on articles for the scholar’s desk.

420 Lam, Peter Y. K. ed: JADES FROM THE TOMB OF THE KING OF NANYUE. Nanyue Wang Mu Yuqi. 南越王墓玉器。林葉強編輯. Hong Kong, 1991. 303 pp. 235 plates and illustrations in colour, 235 b/w illustrations.29x22 cm. Cloth. £75.00Jointly organised by the Museum of the Western Han Tomb of the Nanyue Kin, the Kau Chi Society of Chinese Art and the Art Galleryof the Chinese University of Hong Kong this is an exhibition of excellently carved jades excavated in 1983, and dating from around130 B.C. Near dual text in English and Chinese.

421 Lane, Arthur: EARLY ISLAMIC POTTERY. Mesopotamia, Egypt and Persia. London, 1947. xi, 52 pp. 100plates, 4 in colour. 25x16 cm. Cloth. £85.00Mediaeval Islamic pottery of Mesopotamia, Egypt and Persia from the foundation of Islam until the 13th century.

422 Larson, John and Rose Kerr: GUANYIN. A Masterpiece Revealed. London, 1985. 76 pp. 65 plates and illustrations,25 in colour. Appendix, bibliography, index. 25x20 cm. Cloth. £20.00An account of the painstaking restoration of the Victoria & Albert Museum’s late 12th-century wooden statue of Guanyin, revealinghighly significant information about Chinese painted sculpture.

423 Lau, Michael intro: EXHIBITION OF SHIWAN WARES. Shiwan Tao Zhan. 石灣陶展. Hong Kong, 1979. 118pp. 233 colour plates and illustrations. Map. 25x20 cm. Paper. £40.00Catalogue of an exhibition at the Fung Ping Shan Museum, Hong Kong. A prime reference on this ware. Text in English and Chinese.Out-of-print and hard to find. Crease to edge of front cover and slight bumping throughout the work. Priced accordingly.

424 Lawton, Thomas: CHINESE ART OF THE WARRING STATES PERIOD. Change and Continuity 480-222B.C. Washington, 1982. 202 pp. Numerous plates and illustrations, many in colour. 27x23 cm. Paper. £20.00Scholarly catalogue of an exhibition mounted at the Freer Gallery and featuring objects of bronze, jade and lacquer from the Museum’sexceptional collection.


425 Lee Soyoung: KOREAN BUNCHEONG CERAMICS. from Leeum, Samsung Museum of Art. New Haven,2011. xiii, 161 pp. Numerous colour plates. 27x23 cm. Cloth. £60.00Buncheong ceramics emerged as a distinctive art form in Korea in the 15th and 16th centuries. This study is illustrated with 60 mas-terpieces from the Leeum Samsung Museum of Art in Seoul as well as objects from the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.

426 Lee, James Zee-min: CHINESE POTPOURRI. Hong Kong, 1961. 331 pp. 42 b/w illustrations. 24x16 cm. Boards.£20.00

The third edition of this interesting work.427 Lee, Soyoung et al: THE ART OF THE KOREAN RENAISSANCE, 1400-1600.

New York, 2009. 128 pp. Colour illustrations throughout. 27x22 cm. Cloth. £30.00Produced to accompany an exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum in New York that explores theartistic and cultural renaissance in Korea during the 15th and 16th centuries. Includes painting, ce-ramics, metalware, lacquerware and printed books from museum and private collections worldwide.

428 Lee, Thomas ed: CHINA AND EUROPE. Images and Influences 16th-18thCenturies. Hong Kong, 1991. 23x16 cm. Cloth. £35.00

429 Legeza, Ireneus László: TAO MAGIC. The Secret Language of Diagrams andCalligraphy. London, 1975. 125 pp. 167 b/w illustrations. 28x21 cm. Paper. £10.00Selection of Taoist magic diagrams, talismans and charms.

430 Legge, James: THE FOUR BOOKS. Confucian Analects, The Great Learning, TheDoctrine of the Mean, and the Works of Mencius. N.p., n.d. 1014 pp. 20x14 cm.Boards. £20.00Legge’s well-known annotated translation of the four Confucian classics. Includes Chinese text. Anonymous American reprint.

431 Leidy, Denise Patry & R. A. F. Thurman: MANDALA. The Architecture of Enlightenment. London, 1997. 132illustrations, 85 in colour. 26x23 cm. Paper. £15.00Presents both the art and the philosophy of one of Buddhism’s most important figures, in a study of 48 superb examples.

432 Leng Shunqing: TURTLE SACRIFICE IN CHINA AND OCEANIA. Zhongguo yu Haiyangzhou de GuijiWenhua. Inst. of Ethnology, Academia Sinica, 20. Nankang, 1972. iii, 122 pp. XII b/w plates. 1 p. contents inEnglish. 27x19 cm. Paper. £30.00Text in Chinese with list of contents in English.

433 Levenson, Claude B: SYMBOLS OF TIBETAN BUDDHISM. Paris, 1997. 127 pp.Full colour illustrations throughout. Glossary. 32x25 cm. Cloth. £15.00This beautifully-illustrated study of Tibetan symbolism is arranged in brief articles — ‘The Wheel ofTime’, ‘Ritual Bowl and Dagger’, and so on — providing a vivid picture of Tibetan religious prac-tice and its associated material culture. Foreword by the Dalai Lama.

434 Li Dongming: YAQI. (Ivories). 牙器。李東冥編著. Hefei, 2002. 185 pp. Numerouscolour illustrations. 21x14 cm. Paper. £15.00A survey of Chinese ivory carving — including some extremely early excavated pieces. The major-ity of the objects are Ming and Qing. Numerous colour illustrations. Text in Chinese.

435 Li Song: FOJIAO MEISHU QUANJI 9: SHAANXI FOJIAO YISHU. (BuddhistArt 9: The Buddhist Craft of Shaanxi Province). 佛教美術全集九：陝西佛教藝術。李淞著. Taipei, 1999. 239 pp. Colour illustrations throughout. 24x18 cm. Cloth.

£30.00Volume 9 in this series on Buddhist art shows the Buddhist art of Shaanxi province, mostly stone sculpture from numerous temples andgrottoes in the area. Includes a number of lesser-known sites. Illustrated throughout in colour. In Chinese.

436 Li Yuhang: MING QING FOXIANG. (Ming and Qing Buddhist Statuary). 明清佛像。李雨航著. Taibei, 1997.288 pp. Colour illustration throughout. 21x15 cm. Paper. £20.00A good and focussed visual reference on Chinese statuary dating from the Ming and Qing dynasties. Primarily gilt-bronzes and withmuch Tibetan material. Hundreds of objects shown, presumably from collections in Taiwan. Text in Chinese.

437 Li Zehou: THE PATH OF BEAUTY. A Study of Chinese Aesthetics. Beijing, 1988. 271 pp. Numerous colourplates, 1 map, 1 table. 31x29 cm. Cloth. £50.00A study of Chinese aesthetics in the context of China’s cultural heritage. It defines the changing concepts of beauty at different stagesof Chinese history. First, extensive, edition.

438 Li Zhijiang ed: GUJIN BINGQI TUDIAN. (Illustrated Compendium of Ancient and Modern Weaponry). 1996.187 pp. 31 colour illustrations, numerous b/w text drawings. 18x13 cm. Paper. £30.00The first of four volumes, volume 1 documents ancient weaponry. Includes extensive commentaries. In Chinese only.

439 Li Zhiyan & Cheng Wen: CHINESE POTTERY AND PORCELAIN. Traditional Chinese Arts and Culture.Beijing, 1989. iii, 209 pp. Appendixes. 39 drawings, 67 colour plates with descriptions. 26x19 cm. Paper. £10.00This book deals with the beginnings and development of Chinese pottery and porcelain. It also assesses the contribution made by Chi-nese pottery and porcelain to world culture and outlines recent findings in ceramic research.

440 Liang Baiquan: YIXING PURPLE CLAY WARE. 宜興紫砂。梁白泉. Hong Kong, 1991. 384 pp. 213 platesin full colour. 29x22 cm. Cloth. £70.00Text in Chinese and English. With an introductory essay followed by a catalogue of 204 objects of varying age and from different pub-lic and museum collections in China.


441 Liang Yidao & Zhao Qiang ed: ZHONGGUO GUDAI GANGTIE LENG BINGQI XUNLI. (A Tour of AncientChinese Iron and Steel Weapons). 中國古代鋼鐵冷兵器巡禮。梁一刀趙強主編. Beijing, 2008. 226 pp. Colourplates throughout. 2 foldouts. 29x21 cm. Boards. £95.00An extensive visual survey of numerous types of iron and steel Chinese weaponry, the vast majority swords and spears but also ironclubs and other objects. Close-up detail of design and inscriptions. Most of the objects are Ming and Qing dynasty. In Chinese.

442 LIGHT OF COMPASSION. Buddhist Art from Nepal and Tibet. London, 1997. 104 pp. Colour plates throughout.30x21 cm. Paper. £35.00Catalogue of an exhibition of Buddhist art objects from Nepal and Tibet held at Spink in London. Fine colour illustrations with suc-cinct captions make this a useful catalogue.

443 Lin Qianliang: JING WENHUA YU TONG JING JIANSHANG. (The Culture of Mirrors and theConnoisseurship of Bronze Mirrors). 鏡文化與銅鏡鑒賞。林乾良著. Hangzhou, 2012. 2, 2, 257 pp. Full pagecolour plates throughout. 28x21 cm. Wrappers. £60.00A study of the connoisseurship of Chinese mirrors. Accompanied by full page colour plates showing numerous examples dating fromthe Warring States onwards through to the Qing. Predominantly early material from the Han to the Song. Text in Chinese.

444 Lin Yeqiang: JIXIA QINGSHANG: HUAIHAI TANG CANG QINGDAI YUYAO CIPING. Ethereal Elegance:Porcelain Vases of The Imperial Qing: The Huaihai Tang Collection. 機暇清賞：懷海堂藏清代御窯瓷瓶。林業強主編. Hong Kong, 2007. 400 pp. Full page colour plates throughout. 33x25 cm. Cloth. £175.00Large and finely-produced catalogue of an exhibition held at the Art Museum of the Chinese University of Hong Kong which showed143 superb Qing dynasty imperial vases from the Hong Kong-held Huaihai Tang collection. The vases date from the Kangxi toDaoguang reigns with the majority from the Yongzheng and Qianlong reigns. Each is illustrated in a full page colour plate with base-mark also shown and described. The exhibition was in three main sections: Monochromes, Underglaze Ware, Polychromes. Accom-panied by introductions and essays. Dual texts in Chinese and English.

445 Lin, James ed: THE SEARCH FOR IMMORTALITY. Tomb Treasures of Han China. Cambridge, 2012. 356 pp.Numerous b/w and colour plates throughout. 25x29 cm. Cloth. £20.00A catalogue detailing the very fine exhibition at the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge which has brought together archaeological dis-coveries dating from the Han dynasty. Shows the spectacular artistic legacy from the tombs of the royal family of the Chu kingdom atXuzhou in China’s Jiangsu province, together with the marvellous finds from the tomb of the King of Nanyue discovered in Guangzhouin 1983. The Han forged the first stable empire covering most of modern-day China during the last two centuries BC and the first twocenturies AD. The immortality is seen through exquisite artistry — jades, exotic silver and gold work plus much else. Illustratedthroughout in colour, showing many wonderful artefacts, and accompanied by good descriptive text and essays.

446 Lipton, Barbara and Nima Dorjee Ragnubs: TREASURES OF TIBETAN ART. Collections of the JacquesMarchais Museum of Tibetan Art. Oxford, 1996. xix, 295 pp. 190 illustrations and plates, 81 in colour. Index,bibliography. 29x22 cm. Paper. £20.00A sumptuous catalogue of the Jacques Marchais Museum, in celebration of its 50th anniversary. Objects include sculptures and paint-ings, ritual objects, musical instruments, jewellery, and decorative objects. Good descriptions accompany each illustration. Paperedition.

447 Little, Stephen: TAOISM AND THE ARTS OF CHINA. Chicago, 2000. 415 pp.197 colour and 53 b/w plates. 5 maps. 28x20 cm. Paper. £55.00Fine catalogue of an important exhibition. One hundred and fifty art works dating from the Zhou tothe Qing periods have been carefully chosen, discussed and illustrated to represent the Daoist philo-sophical and religious tradition in China, particularly its important influence on artistic practice, pro-duction and connoisseurship. With essays by Kristofer Schipper, Wu Hung, Patricia Ebrey and NancySteinhardt. Paperback edition. Out-of-print.

448 Little, Stephen ed: 17TH-CENTURY CHINESE PAINTINGS. From the TsaoFamily Collection. Munich, 2016. 669 pp. Colour plates and text illustrationsthroughout. 30x23 cm. Cloth. £60.00Large and heavy publication produced to accompany an exhibition at the Los Angeles County Mu-seum of Art showing the 130 late Ming and early Qing dynasty Chinese paintings acquired by JungYing Tsao (1923-2011) over five decades. Constitutes a collection representing every major schooland almost all the most important painters active during this period. Also includes many little-knownartists. Includes hanging scrolls, handscrolls, albums and fan paintings. A collection remarkable for its quality and depth. All paint-ings illustrated in colour and extensively described. Essays accompany.

449 Liu Dunzhen: CHINESE CLASSICAL GARDENS OF SUZHOU. 1993. iv, 459 pp. 29x22 cm. Cloth. £70.00The most detailed and best illustrated work on the gardens of Suzhou. Part I; Theory and Methods. Includes Layout; Water; Rockeries;Buildings; Flowers and Trees. Part II: Chinese Classical Gardens — illustrates and describes various famous such gardens in Suzhou.A multitude of illustrations accompany the text, including detailed architectural drawings, floor plans etc. Translation of a Chinesework published in 1979.

450 Liu Hsieh: THE LITERARY MIND AND THE CARVING OF DRAGONS. A Study of Thought and Patternin Chinese Literature. Records of Civilization LVIII. New York, 1959. xlvi, 298 pp. Index, glossary. 23x16 cm. Cloth. £10.00A comprehensive treatment of literary theories and critical opinions from the earliest period to the 5th century.

451 Liu Jianwei ed: TIAN DAO LUN HUI JINSE NAN. (A Study of the Chinese Wood Nanmu and Nanmu Furniture).天道輪回金絲楠。劉健偉主編. Beijing, 2012. 265 pp. Numerous colour plates. 30x23 cm. Cloth. £90.00A study of the wood in its natural environment of southern China. Followed by illustration of many examples of Chinese furniture madefrom nanmu, nearly all modern but in the traditional style. Illustrated throughout. Text only in Chinese.


452 Liu Yanping et al. ed: QI BAISHI ZHU MU DIAO JINGXUAN JI. (A Selection of Bamboo and Wood Carvingsby Qi Baishi). 齊白石竹木雕精選集。劉艷平等編著. Beijing, 2005. 12 pp. text and 216 pp. colour plates.29x22 cm. Boards. £60.00It is a little-known fact that, in addition to painting, Qi Baishi was an accomplished carver. This is the first comprehensive publicationof his carvings in bamboo and wood — many finely done. Illustrated throughout in colour. Text in Chinese.

453 Loehr, Max et al: THE QUESTION OF INDIVIDUALISM IN CHINESE ART. Offprint Journal of the Historyof Ideas XXII:2. New York, 1961. pp. 147-158. 26x18 cm. Paper. £10.00

454 Loewe, Michael: THE WOODEN AND BAMBOO STRIPS FOUND AT MO-CHU-TZU (KANSU). OffprintJournal of the Royal Asiatic Society. London, 1965. pp. 13-26 plus 1 b/w plates. Annotations in pencil. 22x14 cm.Paper. £10.00

455 Low-Beer, Fritz: TWO LACQUERED BOXES FROM CH’ANGSHA. Offprint Artibus Asiae Vol. X/4. Ascona,1947. pp. 302-311. 5 tipped-in plates. 31x23 cm. Paper. Wear to covers. £10.00

456 Löwendahl, Björn: CHINA ILLUSTRATA NOVA. Sino-Western Relations, Conceptions of China, CulturalInfluences and the Development of Sinology Disclosed in Western Printed Books 1477-1877: The Catalogue of theLöwendahl — von der Burg Collection. Hua Hin, 2008. xlix, 264; 374 pp. A few colour and b/w plates. 2 vols. 30x19cm. Cloth. £150.00The Löwendahl — von der Burg collection is a most important assemblage of Western books on China, written by sinologues, mis-sionaries, travellers, merchants and other authors. The collection also includes works by Chinese authors translated and edited by West-ern scholars. The contents cover Chinese history, language, philosophy, religion, society, science, medicine, missionary work and the‘Chinese Rites’ controversy, trade (incl. treaties with foreign powers), Hong Kong, foreign aggression, and travel accounts. The resultof over twenty years collecting and research, this exhaustive two-volume work is a major addition to the reference works on early west-ern books on China. Over 1500 books are described in detail, ranging from major works exclusively devoted to China through to thosewith brief mentions of the Middle Kingdom. In addition to the actual description of each book, there is ample comment on its impor-tance and associated research. Arranged chronologically. Volume One covers the period 1477-1776 and Volume Two from 1777-1877.Recommended.

457 Lu Hanchao: STREET CRIERS. A Cultural History of Chinese Beggars. Stanford, 2005. 288 pp. 20 illustrations.Cloth. £20.00A comprehensive study of beggars’ culture and the institution of mendicancy in China from late imperial times to the mod twentiethcentury. Examines the state of begging in China today.

458 Lu Li-cheng and Wei Dewen ed: JINGWEI FU’ERMOSHA : 16-19 SHIJIXIFANG HUIZHI TAIWAN XIANGGUAN DITU. Formosa: The NMTHCollection of Western Maps Relating to Taiwan, 1500-1900. 經緯福爾摩沙： 16-19世紀西方繪製臺灣相關地圖。呂理政、魏德文主編. Taibei, 2005. xii, 182 pp.Bibliography. 31x22 cm. Cloth. £35.00Fine and well illustrated catalogue of the western maps relating to Taiwan in the collection of theNational Museum of Taiwanese History (NMTH). There is an introductory essay (50 pp.), a sectionwith chiefly fullpage illustration and detailed descriptions of selected maps, plus a complete listingof the collection with small coloured plates. Chiefly Chinese, with western languages for the captionsand relevant items of bibliography, etc.

459 Lu Peng et al.; Seagraves, Julia M. ed. and trans: THE ADVENTURES OF THREETRAVEL WEARY LOAFERS. New Art from the People’s Republic of China.Denver, 1997. 7, 31; 30, 2; 32 pp. folded Chinese-style. Woodcut illustrationsthroughout. 3 vols. 27x20 cm. Stitched, in a cloth case. One toggle missing. £200.00Fascinating publication showcasing the contemporary woodcut art of Wei Dong, Lu Peng and Liang Changsheng, with text in English,including details of each artist and introductions to their work. Highly detailed neo-decadence from mainland China. Very scarce.

460 Luoyang Museum: LUOYANG CHUTU TONGJING. (Mirrors Excavated at Luoyang). 洛陽出土銅鏡. Beijing,1988. 16, 26 pp. text. 8 colour plates, 206 b/w illustrations. 26x18 cm. Paper. £30.00Illustrations and descriptions of bronze mirrors excavated in the vicinity of Luoyang, ranging in dating from Eastern Han to Yuan. InChinese. Hard to find.

461 Lust, John: WESTERN BOOKS ON CHINA PUBLISHED UP TO 1850. In the Library of the School of Orientaland African Studies, London University. London, 1992. 352 pp. 17 illustrations. 28x20 cm. Cloth. £20.00Reprint of this important annotated bibliography of more than 1000 books on China published in the West before 1850. The catalogueis classified with indexes of authors, titles and publishers. An invaluable reference work on this subject.

462 Luzzato-Bilitz, Oscar: ORIENTAL LACQUER. London, 1969. 158 pp. 73 colour plates. 19x14 cm. Cloth.£15.00

Handy, well-illustrated general study.463 M D Flacks: CONTEMPLATING ROCKS. London, 2012. 40 pp. Colour illustrations throughout. 30x22 cm.

Wrappers. £20.00Dealer’s catalogue showing fine contemporary Chinese paintings depicting scholars’ rocks together with numerous excellent exam-ples of the rocks themselves. Scarce.


464 Ma Baojie: THE LIAONING MUSEUM. Hong Kong, 2008. 256 pp. 300 colour illustrations. 27x20 cm.Wrappers. £15.00The Liaoning Museum, located in the city of Shenyang, is one of China’s oldest and most important cultural institutions. It holds im-portant collections of art and archaeology with a particular focus on the Northeast of China and has important early paintings andcalligraphy originally in the imperial collection. A detailed guide to the museum and its treasures.

465 Ma Yuanhao: ZHONGGUO DIAOSU GUANYIN. (Chinese Sculptures of [the Bodhisattva] Guanyin). Shanghai,1994. 2, 92 pp. 89 colour illustrations. 29x21 cm. Paper. £15.00A study of how the Guanyin Bodhisattva has been represented in Chinese stone, wood and ivory sculpture over the ages. In Chinese.

466 McArthur, Meher: READING BUDDHIST ART. An Illustrated Guide to BuddhistSigns and Symbols. London, 2002. 216 pp. 304 illustrations. 23x18 cm. Cloth.

£15.00All the principal symbols, objects and figures of Buddhist worship are gathered here in a rich, in-formative and easy-to-use guide that serves as both an art reference tool and an introduction to theprinciples of the religion.

467 Machida International Graphics Museum: CHUGOKU NO NENGA TEN.(Exhibition of Chinese New Year Prints). 中國の年畫展. Machida, 1992. 36 pp. 60colour illustrations. 6 b/w text-figures. 28x21 cm. Paper. £15.00Catalogue of an exhibition of Chinese woodblock prints on loan from the collection of the BeijingLibrary and shown at the MAchida International Graphics Museum. In Japanese.

468 Malcolm Fairley,: JAPANESE WORKS OF ART. London 2008. 52 pp. Colour platesthroughout. 29x21 cm. Paper. £15.00Sale exhibition catalogue of 48 fine and varied examples of Japanese art dating from the Muromachi to the Meiji, all illustrated in goodcolour and well-described. Includes porcelains, cloisonné enamels, bronzes, lacquer and much else.

469 Malmborg, Marianne af: KOREANSK KERAMIK — KOREAN CERAMICS. MFEA Exhibition CatalogueNo. 6. Stockholm, 1966. 60 pp. Swedish and English text. 41 illustrations, 1 in colour. 23x18 cm. Paper. £18.00Catalogue of an exhibition in the Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities, Stockholm.

470 Man, John: THE MONGOL EMPIRE. Genghis Khan, His Heirs and the Founding of Modern China. London,2014. xiii, 384 pp. text plus 16 pp. colour plates. 24x16 cm. Cloth. £20.00Fascinating and very readable account of the rise and fall of the Mongol Empire. Brings to life the true achievement, scale and hor-rors of the Mongol conquests with a particular focus on China.

471 Marchant & Son: RECENT ACQUISITIONS 2005. Chinese Imperial & Export Porcelain, Cloisonné & EnamelWares. London, 2005. 143 pp. Colour plates throughout, many full page. 30x21 cm. Cloth. £55.00Dealer’s catalogue showing 80 fine recent acquisitions, 72 examples of Chinese ceramics from the Ming and Qing dynasties and 8 cloi-sonné and enamel wares. 120 fine examples of Chinese jade, the majority Qing. Illustrated in full colour, many with multiple views andclose-up detail. Base marks shown. Descriptions accompany.

472 Matthiessen, Peter: EAST OF LO MONTHANG. In the Land of Mustang. Boston, 1996. 192 pp. Colourphotographs throughout. 30x23 cm. Paper. £15.00The Kingdom of Lo is an isolated region deep in the Himalayas closed to the outside world until 1991. The authors were the first West-erners to venture there in thirty years. This work focusses on the stark beauty and culture of the area of Mustang in the east of the re-gion, isolated and bordering Tibet. Wonderful photography.

473 Medley, Margaret: ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE OF MING AND QING MONOCHROME WARES. PDFIllustrated Catalogues Section 6. London, 1989. 63 pp. 72 illustrations, 15 in colour. Bibliography. 25x19 cm. Paper. £10.00This publication includes peach-bloom glazes as well as the reds, yellows, blues and non-celadon greens. Revised edition.

474 Mele, Pietro Francesco: TIBET. Calcutta, 1969. 12 pp. text, 72 pp. b/w photographs with comment. 30x25 cm.Paper. £15.00As a result of his visit to Tibet, Mele produced an interesting album with excellent authentic black-and-white photographs of variousaspects of life and the scenery in Tibet at a time when the Roof of the World was much more isolated than today.

475 Metropolitan Museum of Art: ALONG THE ANCIENT SILK ROUTES. Central Asian Art from the West BerlinState Museums. New York, 1982. 223 pp. 152 illustrations, many in colour. Maps. Bibliography. 28x22 cm. Paper. £25.00Catalogue of an exhibition lent by the Museum für Indische Kunst, Staatliche Museen Preussischer Kulturbesitz, Berlin.

476 Metropolitan Museum of Art: LOST KINGDOMS. Hindu-Buddhist Sculpture of Early Southeast Asia. NewHaven, 2014. xviii, 317 pp. Colour plates throughout. 32x23 cm. Cloth. £45.00Copiously-illustrated catalogue of an exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York exploring the sculptural art of king-doms in Southeast Asia who embraced Hinduism and Buddhism from the fifth to the eighth centuries AD. Many beautiful and rare ex-amples shown and includes major loans from museums in Southeast Asia, Detailed essays and descriptions accompany. A welcomeaddition to the sparse literature on this subject.

477 Migeon, Gaston: L’ART CHINOIS. Paris, 1925. 37 pp. text. 57 plates, 6 in colour. Bibliography. Chronologicaltable. 24x19 cm. Board portfolio. £20.00Catalogue of objects in the Musée du Louvre, including sculpture, metal work and paintings. Text in French.


478 Miksic, John: BOROBUDUR. Golden Tales of the Buddhas. London, 1990. 157 pp. 149 illustrations, 108 in colour,3 maps. 26x28 cm. Cloth. £25.00A thorough introduction to the largest Buddhist monument in the world, covering its architectural history, religious symbolism and thesignificance of the numerous bas-reliefs in Buddhist history and philosophy.

479 Millennium Art Museum: SHIJI GUOBAO II. (The Second Exhibition of NationalTreasures). 世紀國寶 II. Beijing, 2005. 257 pp. Colour plates throughout. 27x22 cm.Wrappers. £50.00Catalogue of an exhibition held at the Millennium Art Museum in Beijing of National Treasures intwo sections: Chinese archaeological finds and Chinese Buddhist art. The archaeological sectioncomprised superb artefacts including some astonishing recent finds, particularly from the Mausoleumof Qin Shi Huangdi. A life-size and lifelike bronze crane, life-size terracotta figures of an acrobat,rower and an official, a suit of armour carved from stone pieces with an accompanying stone hel-met. There is also recent material from Yinxu, plus famous artefacts such as a jade burial suit. TheBuddhist art section showed extremely fine material in gilt-bronze, bronze, stone plus a couple of su-tras and paintings. A few of the Buddhist art exhibits were recent finds, including Qingzhou sculp-tures. The exhibition showed the finest material and was very diverse. Prior to its showing in Beijing,the exhibition had been in Japan at the Tokyo and Osaka National Museums. Brief captions in En-glish, otherwise Chinese text only.

480 Minick, Scott and Jiao Ping: CHINESE GRAPHIC DESIGN IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY. London,1990. 160 pp. 285 illustrations including 150 in colour. 26x22 cm. Cloth. £30.00Displays an astonishing range of graphic design, much uncovered from long-forgotten sources, and demonstrates how creative newdesign ideas were founded in Chinese traditional practices.

481 Mino, Yutaka: FREEDOM OF CLAY AND BRUSH THROUGH SEVEN CENTURIES IN NORTHERNCHINA. Tz’u-chou Type Wares, 960-1600 A.D. Indianapolis, 1980. 264 pp. Appendixes, index, bibliog. 8 colourplates, 109 b/w plates, 354 figures. 28x22 cm. Paper. £60.00A scholarly & extensive study of Cizhou wares, assembling all the various kinds known. Profusely illustrated, full page plate of spec-imens exhibited & many smaller illustrations of comparative pieces. A valuable monograph.

482 Mino, Yutaka and Tsiang, Katherine R: ICE AND GREEN CLOUDS. Traditions of Chinese Celadon.Bloomington, 1986. 240 pp. Chronology, bibliography. 90 plates, 25 in colour, 14 figures, 190 photos. 30x23 cm.Paper. £30.00Catalogue of an exhibition at the Indianapolis Museum of Art of 87 examples of celadon ware, each thoroughly described and docu-mented.

483 Mitsukoshi Department Store: DAI 18-KAI NIHON DENTO KOGEI TEN. (The 18th Exhibition of TraditionalJapanese Applied Arts). Tokyo, 1971. 22 pp. written material & 76 pp. illustrations. 26x19 cm. Paper. £20.00Illustrated catalogue of the 18th travelling exhibition of traditional Japanese applied arts — ceramics, textiles, lacquer, metalwork,woodwork, dolls, etc.

484 Mizuno Seiichi: BRONZES AND JADES OF ANCIENT CHINA. In Shu Seidoki to Tama. 殷周青銅器と玉。水野清一著. Tokyo, 1959. 166, 101, 35 pp. text. 166 pp. plates, of which 16 in colour, 86 text-figures. 32x26 cm.Half leather. £750.00Well-illustrated and important work on Chinese bronzes and jades. Many superb examples shown, including numerous pieces fromAmerican museum collections. 35 pages of English text. Main text in Japanese. Rebound in half green morocco over green boards.Brown leather spine with gilt lettering. A pleasing association copy from the library of, and with the bookplate of, the well-known Chi-nese jade collectors, Alan and Simone Hartman. Now a very scarce work.

485 Monnet, Nathalie: CHINE: L’EMPIRE DU TRAIT: CALLIGRAPHIES ETDESSINS DU VE AU XIXE SIECLES. Paris, 2004. 255 pp. Colour platesthroughout. Bibliography, index. 31X24 cm. Paper. £50.00Catalogue of a wide-ranging exhibition based on the Chinese collections of the Bibliothèque Na-tionale, including some supporting material from other collections, with pieces dating from the 5thto the 19th centuries. Taking calligraphy as its initial focus — as the first or highest art of China —the catalogue goes on to embrace sections on calligraphy and painting, religious/iconic and liter-ary diversions, and finally, printed illustration. Basically, this work documents the visually impor-tant aspects of the library’s collections, updating and significantly augmenting the now scarce andsought-after ‘Impressions de Chine’. In French.

486 Moran, Kerry: KAILAS. On Pilgrimage to the Sacred Mountain of Tibet. London,1999. 128 pp. 116 colour illustrations. 3 maps. 26x22 cm. Paper. £10.00Located in remote western Tibet, Kailas is a holy place to a number of religions and 4 of Asia’s largest rivers have their source in itsarea. This is an account of a visit to this wonderful place, well-illustrated with fine colour photographs.

487 Morse, Peter: HOKUSAI — ONE HUNDRED POETS. London, 1989. 224 pp. Bibliography. 41 colour plates,70 illustrations. 25x34 cm. Cloth. £30.00The ‘One Hundred Poems’ comprise a body of literature integral to Japanese art and culture since the mid-13th century ; in this bookall 89 of Hokusai’s illustrations to these works are reproduced for the first time.

488 Morton-Cameron, W. H. comp: PRESENT DAY IMPRESSIONS OF JAPAN. The History, People, Commerce,Industries and Resources of Japan. London, 1919. 6 ff. (incl. 4 printed in gold and colours), 931 pp. Illustrationsthroughout (some in colour) 32x25 cm. Original morocco gilt, g.e. (Upper cover splitting.) £95.00This study includes Japan’s Colonial Empire, namely: Kwantung, Chosen, Taiwan and Karafuto. Divided into sections on the Impe-rial Family, the Army and Navy, the foreign Embassies, economics, shipping, literature etc. A most exhaustive source of information.Rare.

489 Moss, Hugh M: CHINESE SNUFF-BOTTLES 1-5. A Magazine for the Collector and Student of Chinese Snuff-Bottles. London, 1963-69. Profusely illustrated, many colour illustrations. 24x16 cm. Red full leather, raised bands,gilt labels on spine. £50.00Contributions by Lilla S. Perry, John F. Ruckman, Mike J. Kayes, Hugh M. Moss, and Tom Harrison. The first five issues of this jour-nal. Rare. Robert Kleiner’s finely bound copy of a scarce set of this important collectors’ magazine with numerous interesting dedica-tions by Moss and other authors and collectors.

490 Mueller, Herbert: THE SUNGLIN COLLECTION OF CHINESE ART AND ARCHAEOLOGY, PEKING.Catalog of Exhibition, New York. New York, 1930. 107 pp. 51 plates with 157 illustrations, 15 text-figures. 26x20cm. Wrappers. £45.00An exhibition at the Herbert J. Devine Galleries. With an introductory chapter on ‘Archaeology in China’ and further contributionsby Herbert Mueller who put together the Sunglin Collection in 1924. Includes Ordos bronzes, bronze vessels, sculpture and ceramics.Ex-library copy.

491 Münsterberg, Hugo: ART OF INDIA AND SOUTHEAST ASIA. Panorama of World Art. New York, 1970. 263pp. 239 illustrations (102 in colour). Map. Bibliography. 23x20 cm. Cloth. £15.00A concise introduction to the last of the great artistic traditions of Asia to be recognised and appreciated.

492 Münsterberg, Hugo: CHINESE BUDDHIST BRONZES. New York, 1988. 192 pp. 130 illustrations & colouredfrontispiece. 31x24 cm. Cloth. £30.00The listing of major dated Chinese bronzes in collections throughout the world contained in the appendix is of especial interest. Reprintof the 1963 edition.

493 Münsterberg, Hugo: SCULPTURE OF THE ORIENT. New York, 1972. x, 149 pp. 150 b/w plates. 28x21 cm.Paper. £15.00A well-chosen and representative selection of oriental sculpture by an expert.

494 Murasaki, Lady; Waley, Arthur trans: THE TALE OF GENJI. A Novel in Four Parts. New York, 1935. xvi, 743pp. 21x15 cm. Cloth. £18.00Waley’s creative, abridged translation of Murasaki’s famous novel in the Literary Guild edition, including the following parts: ‘TheTale of Genji’, ‘The Sacred Tree’, ‘A Wreath of Cloud’, and ‘Blue Trousers’.

495 Musée Cernuschi ed: L’AGE D’OR DE LA CERAMIQUE CHINOISE. (The Golden Age of Chinese Ceramics).Paris, 1999. 141 pp. Colour plates throughout. 27x21 cm. Paper. £25.00Exhibition at Musée Cernuschi of exquisite Tang, Liao and Song ceramics from the Meiyintang collection. Excellent colour illustra-tions. In French.

496 Musée Guimet: DVARAVATI AUX SOURCES DU BOUDDHISME EN THAILANDE. (Dvaravati: The Originsof Buddhism in Thailand). Paris, 2009. 312 pp. Numerous colour plates. 28x22 cm. Wrappers. £35.00Catalogue of an exhibition at the Musée Guimet in Paris exploring the origins of Buddhism in Thailand with particular reference tothe sculptural record. Illustrated with numerous fine pieces from French and Thai collections. Detailed text in French.

497 Musée Guimet,: ROCHERS DE LETTRES: ITINERAIRES DE L’ART EN CHINE. (Scholars’ Stones:Journeys of Art in China). Paris, 2012. 162 pp. Colour and b/w illustrations. 28x22 cm. Wrappers. £35.00Catalogue of an exhibition at the Musée Guimet in Paris exploring scholars’ stones (qi shi) and associated art forms, primarily paint-ings of stones (both old paintings and contemporary examples by Liu Dan) plus some scholar’s studio accoutrements. Illustratedthroughout. Text in French. Apparently, this catalogue is already out-of-print.

498 Museum of Oriental Ceramics: SONG CERAMICS. So Ji. 宋磁. Osaka, 1999. 230 pp. c. 300 colour illustrations.30x22 cm. Paper. £60.00Travelling exhibition of Song ceramics. 116 superb pieces lent by museums both in Japan and abroad comprise a wonderful ensem-ble. With a few Liao and Jin pieces in addition to the Song wares. Excellent photography and full bilingual text in Japanese and En-glish. Recommended. Out-of-print. Slight tears and bumps to top cover near spine. Fine inside.

499 Museum of Oriental Ceramics: SOUL OF SIMPLICITY. Ceramics of the Joseon Dynasty, Korea. Osaka, 2002.219 pp. 122 pp. colour plates, b/w illustrations. 30x21 cm. Paper. £55.00Catalogue of a travelling exhibition at several Japanese museums of Korean ceramics from the Joseon (Choson) dynasty. 122 excel-lent examples are illustrated in colour and described. The ceramics come from the Museum of Oriental Ceramics in Osaka (the RheeByung-chang, Sumitomo and Ataka collections) plus other Japanese and foreign collections. Foreword, plate list and plate captionsin English. Main text in Japanese.

500 Nakano Toru et al: BRONZE MIRRORS FROM ANCIENT CHINA. Donald H. Graham Jr. Collection. N.p.,1994. 312 pp. 248 colour illustrations. Bibliography, glossary. 35x26 cm. Cloth, slipcase. £70.00Catalogue of a very fine collection of 130 mirrors dating from Warring States to Six Dynasties. Text and catalogue by Mr. Nakano ofKuboso Memorial Museum of Arts, and additional essays by Tseng Yuho Ecke and Suzanne Cahill. Lavish, privately published publi-cation.


501 Nara National Museum: THE GRAND EXHIBITION OF SILK ROAD CIVILIZATIONS. Nara, 1988. 243;227; 271 pp. 529 colour illustrations, many text figures. Chronology. 3 vols. 29x22 cm. Paper, in box. £160.00A beautifully illustrated and detailed catalogue of this extensive exhibition of silk-route artefacts. Volume 1 covers Buddhist art do-nated by India, Pakistan, China, & Korea, volume 2 sea-route pieces from Syria, & volume 3. steppe-route art from Italy, Iraq, Iran,& the Soviet Union.

502 National Library of Australia; Woolley, Nathan ed: CELESTIAL EMPIRE. Life in China 1644-1911. Canberra,2016. xxii, 173 pp. Numerous colour illustrations. 25x22 cm. Wrappers. £55.00Catalogue of a fascinating exhibition at the National Library of Australia comprising loans of rare manuscripts, maps and wood-block-printed works from the National Library of China complemented by rare Chinese and western material from the holdings of theNational Library of Australia. All well-illustrated and described in much detail.

503 National Museum of China: WENMING DE SHUGUANG: LIANGZHU WENHUA WENWU JINGPIN JI.(A Brilliant Dawn: Masterpieces of the Liangzhu Culture). 文明的曙光：良渚文化文物精品集. Beijing, 2005.351 pp. Colour plates throughout. 29x22 cm. Paper. £85.00Catalogue of an important exhibition held at the National Museum of China in Beijing showing masterpieces from the NeolithicLiangzhu Culture of eastern China. Whilst showing some stone implements and pottery items, the highlight of the exhibition are thenumerous extremely fine and famous jades. Illustrated with colour plates throughout. List of exhibits with brief descriptions in English,otherwise Chinese text only. Out-of-print.

504 National Museum of History: LIDAI TONGJING. Ancient Bronze Mirrors in the National Museum of History.國立歷史博物館藏歷代銅鏡. Taipei, 1992. 198 pp. Colour plates and b/w text illustrations throughout. 30x22cm. Cloth. £50.00Catalogue of an exhibition of fine bronze mirrors from the collection of the National Museum of History in Taibei plus loans from col-lections in Taiwan. The mirrors date in age from the Warring States period through to the Qing with the majority of the mirrors dat-ing from the Tang or before. Some 150 mirrors are shown in colour plates and with additional black-and-white text illustration.Introduction, list of contents and captions to plates in English. Main text in Chinese. Hard to find.

505 National Museum of History: TANG SANCAI TEZHAN TULU. The Special Exhibition of Tang Tri colour. 唐三彩特展圖錄. Taibei, 1998. 172 pp. 122 pp. colour plates. 29x21 cm. Paper. £49.00Catalogue of a fine exhibition of Tang sancai wares — tomb figurines and ceramics — from the Museum’s collection which, prior to1949, comprised part of the Henan Museum holdings. Preface and captions in English. Main text in Chinese.

506 National Museum of History ed: YOU DENG WENHUA ZHAN. Exhibition of Chinese Oil Lamps. 油燈文化展. Taibei, 2008. 111 pp. Numerous colour text plates. 30x21 cm. Wrappers. £70.00Catalogue of an exhibition at the National Museum of History in Taibei showing nearly 100 Chinese ceramic oil lamps from acrossthe dynasties. Preface, introduction and captions in English. Main body of text in Chinese.

507 National Palace Museum: ART AND CULTURE OF THE SUNG DYNASTY 960-1279. China at the Inceptionof the Second Millennium. 千禧年宋代文物大展. Taibei, 2000. 455 pp. 223 pp. colour plates. B/w text illustrations.36x27 cm. Cloth, slipcase. £95.00A wonderful exhibition held by the National Palace Museum in Taipei to commemorate the millennium. The exhibition looks back1000 years to the Song dynasty in power at the start of the second millennium when Chinese art reached a pinnacle of sophistication.The exhibition is split into five sections: The Tao and Art, Nature as Teacher, The Beauty of Simplicity, Life and Art, Cultural Synthe-sis. Drawing on its stunning holdings of Song dynasty art, all from the former Chinese imperial collection, 189 objects are displayed— primarily calligraphy, paintings and ceramics but also bronzes, books, jades, lacquer etc. Introductions and captions in English,otherwise Chinese only. An exhibition that truly shows the artistic achievements of the Song. Recommended. Now out-of-print.

508 National Palace Museum: CATALOGUE OF A SPECIAL EXHIBITION OF DRAGON-MOTIFPORCELAIN IN THE NATIONAL MUSEUM. Ciqi Shang de Longwen. 瓷器上的龍紋. Taibei, 1983. 180 pp.20 colour plates, 100 illustrations. 25x25 cm. Paper. £45.00Amply illustrated, with pieces from this wonderful collection. — predominantly Song, Ming and Qing. Captions and text in Chineseand English. Scarce.

509 National Palace Museum: THE CRUCIBLE OF COMPASSION AND WISDOM. Special Exhibition Catalogof Buddhist Bronzes from the Nitta Collection. Taibei, 1987. viii, 458 pp. 218 colour plates. Bibliography, glossary.36x26 cm. Cloth. £175.00Over 200 Buddhist bronzes (many gilt-bronze) and associated bronzes from the important Nitta Group Collection, documenting thedevelopment of bronze Buddhist images from China, Korea, Japan, India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Tibet, Indonesia, Cambodia. Asumptuous important catalogue of a quite superb collection. Dual Chinese and English text. Now out-of-print and hard to find.

510 National Palace Museum: GUGONG TONGJING TEZHAN TULU. Catalogue to Special Exhibition of BronzeMirrors in the National Palace. 故宮銅鏡特展圖錄. Taibei, 1986. 267 pp. 167 plates in colour. 25x24 cm. Paper.

£60.00A handsome catalogue illustrating 167 various mirrors of bronze, dating from Warring States period to Qing in the National PalaceMuseum collection. Text in Chinese and English.

511 National Palace Museum: HEHE ZONG ZHOU: XIZHOU WENHUA TE ZHAN. The Cultural Grandeur of theWestern Zhou Dynasty. 赫赫宗周：西周文化特展. Taibei, 2012. 381 pp. Colour plates throughout. B/w rubbingsof inscriptions on bronzes. 30x23 cm. Wrappers. £70.00Catalogue of an excellent exhibition at the National Palace Museum looking at the culture of China’s Western Zhou dynasty. The ex-hibition comprised major loans from nine museums in China’s Shaanxi province where the Western Zhou flourished. A total of 176 arte-facts were shown including marvellous bronzes, gold ornaments, jade, jewellery, pottery and carved bone and shell. Illustratedthroughout with colour plates. Prefaces, brief introduction to each section, list of contents and captions to plates in English. Main textin Chinese.


512 National Palace Museum: HUAXIA YISHU ZHONG DE ZIRAN GUAN: TANG JIANG GUGONG WENWUXUANCUI TEZHAN. Viewing Nature in Chinese Art: A Special Exhibit of Select Artifacts from the MuseumCollection to Celebrate the 2016 Tang Prize. 華夏藝術中的自然觀：唐獎故宮文物選萃特展. Taibei, 2016. 278pp. Colour plates throughout, many full page. 29x29 cm. Wrappers. £70.00Catalogue of an exhibition at the National Palace Museum showing superb and rare objects from across the range of the Museum’scollection with the theme of nature in Chinese art. Includes rare books, paintings, ceramics, bronzes etc. all showing or depicting an-imals, birds, landscapes and natural themes. Illustrated throughout in colour and with a near dual text in Chinese and English.

513 National Palace Museum: LIN SU GUAN HAI: YUANCANG YANG SHOUJING TUSHU TEZHAN. TheBibliophile Yang Shoujing and His Guanhaitang Library of Rare Editions and Antiquarian Books. 鄰蘇觀海：院藏楊守警圖書特展 . Taibei, 2016. 183 pp. Numerous colour plates, a good number full page. 29x29 cm. Wrappers. £50.00Catalogue of an exhibition at the National Palace Museum exploring the life and collecting efforts of the bibliophile Yang Shoujing(1839-1915). Yang assembled two libraries (including many rare items bought whilst living in Japan) and many of the books from hiscollection (1634 titles) are in the library of the National Palace Museum. Highlights of the collection include Song and Yuan imprints.Illustrated throughout with many rare and interesting works, including much from the Song and Yuan dynasties. Prefaces, introduc-tions to each section and captions to plates in English. Main text in Chinese.

514 National Palace Museum: AN-MANI PAMI HONG — YUAN CANG ZANGCHUAN FOJIAO WENWUTEZHAN. Om-mani-padme-hum: Tibetan Buddhist Art in the National Palace Museum. 唵嘛呢叭咪吽－院藏藏傳佛教文物特展. Taibei, 2016. 255 pp. Numerous full page colour plates. 30x21 cm. Wrappers. £60.00Catalogue of an exhibition at the National Palace Museum in Taibei focussing on Tibetan Buddhist art in the collection. Presents per-haps their greatest Buddhist treasure, the Kangxi period Kangyur (Tibetan Dragon Sutra) together with numerous other rare artefacts,mainly tangkas, paintings and printed books. Near dual texts in Chinese and English impart a wealth of information.

515 National Palace Museum: MING CHENGHUA CIQI TEZHAN. Special Exhibition of Cheng-hua Porcelain. 明成化瓷器特展. Taibei, 1977. 48 pp. text, plus c. 80 pp. with 195 plates, 21 col. 25x25 cm. Quarter leather.£35.00Exhibition catalogue with English and Chinese text.

516 National Palace Museum: MING XUANDE CIQI TEZHAN MULU. Special Exhibition of Hsuan-te Porcelain.明宣德瓷器特展目錄. Taibei, 1980. 33 pp. Chinese and English text. 261 illustrations, with 22 in colour. 26x25cm. Paper. £30.0077 pieces of Xuande period ware and 61 imitations from later periods were selected for this exhibition from the National Palace Mu-seum’s superb collection. A scarce catalogue.

517 National Palace Museum: SHANG WANG WU DING YU FU HAO: YIN SHANG SHENGSHI WENHUAYISHU TE ZHAN. King Wu Ding and Lady Hao: Art and Culture of the Late Shang Dynasty. 商王武丁與婦好：殷商盛世文化特展. Taibei, 2012. 351 pp. Colour plates throughout. A few b/w text illustrations. 30x23 cm.Wrappers. £70.00Catalogue of an exhibition at the National Palace Museum exploring the culture of the late Shang dynasty by focussing on two famousexcavations at the site of the ancient Shang dynasty capital at Yinxu near Anyang in China’s Henan province. The tomb of King WuDing was found in 1936 whilst that of his consort, Lady Hao, was discovered (miraculously intact) much later in 1976. The exhibitionbrings together loans from Academia Sinica in Taiwan together with loans from the Henan Museum and Institute of Archaeology CASSin mainland China. Comprises an excellent archaeological survey of a very precise period in the late Shang dynasty. The exhibits in-clude numerous fine bronzes, oracle bones, carved bone and small jade objects. Prefaces, introductions to each section and captionsto plates in English. Main text in Chinese.

518 National Palace Museum: SHI QUAN QIANLONG: QING GAOZONG DE YISHU PINWEI. The AllComplete Qianlong: A Special Exhibition on the Aesthetic Tastes of the Qing Emperor Gaozong. 十全乾龍：清高宗的藝術品味. Taibei, 2013. 409 pp. Colour plates throughout. 30x23 cm. Wrappers. £75.00Catalogue of a major and broad-ranging exhibition at the National Palace Museum exploring the connoisseurship and collectingstyle of the Qing dynasty Qianlong Emperor. Sections on: Taste and Cultivation, Environment, Connoisseurship and Production, Or-ganisation and Cataloguing, Categorizing and Appreciation, Imitation and Innovation, Life and Art, Travel and Experience, Peace andLeisure, Chronology of the Qianlong Emperor. Illustrated throughout with superb and fascinating objects collected by, or commissionedby, the Emperor and in a large variety of media — from ceramics, paintings and cloisonné to rare books, bronzes and lacquer. This isa larger exhibition and shows a distinctly different group of exhibits to the 2002 National Palace Museum exhibition on Qianlong, Pref-ace, list of contents, list of plates, brief introductions to each section and captions to plates in English. Main text in Chinese.

519 National Palace Museum: TIANLU LINGLANG: QIANLONG YU LAN ZHI BAO. The T’ien-Lu Lin-langLibrary: Treasured Rare Books of the Ch’ing Inner Court. 天祿琳琅：乾隆御覽之寶. Taibei, 2007. 63 pp. Colourplates throughout with English. 26x19 cm. Wrappers. £20.00Based on the collections of the National Palace Museum in Taibei, this small exhibition catalogue examines the Tianlu Linlang libraryestablished by the Qianlong emperor in the Qing dynasty. Introductions to each section and captions in English. Main text in Chinese.

520 Natori, Yonosuke: BAKUSEKIZAN SEKKUTSU. (The Maijishan Grottoes). Tokyo, 1979. 136 pp. Numerous fullpage b/w plates. B/w text illustrations. 30x22 cm. Cloth. £40.001979 reprint of a survey first published in 1957 of the Maijishan Grottoes in China’s Gansu province. Good fullpage black-and-whitephotographs assist. An early survey of this Buddhist site. In Japanese.

521 Needham, Joseph: CLERKS AND CRAFTSMEN IN CHINA AND THE WEST. Lectures and Addresses on theHistory of Science and Technology. London, 1970. xix, 470 pp. 40 plates. Bibliography, index. 25x19 cm. Cloth. £20.0019 interesting essays being mainly by-products of the writing of Science and Civilisation in China. A good cross section ranging fromAstronomy in Classical China, The Chinese Contribution to the Development of the Mariner’s Compass, Elixir Poisoning in MedievalChina, Hygiene and Preventive Medicine etc. Ex-library copy with stamps on frontpapers only.



522 Nihon Tosogu Bijutsukan: KOICHI KE HIZO TOKUBETSU TEN — SOKEN KINKO GOTO KE NOMEISAKU O ATSUMETE. (Special Exhibition of Sword Fittings from the Koichi Family). Tokyo, 1996. viii, 38pp. 50 colour illustrations and plates. 30x21 cm. Paper. £25.00An exhibition catalogue from the Museum of Japanese Sword Fittings showing 50 exquisite menuki, mitokoromono and kozuka. Textin Japanese, but English plate captions including names of makers.

523 Ningxia Museum ed: SHENGHUI HUI XIANG: ZHONGGUO HUIZU JINGPIN WENWU. (Masterpieces ofMuslim Culture in China). 盛世回鄉：中國回族精品文物. Beijing, 2012. 219 pp. Colour plates throughout.29x21 cm. Wrappers. £70.00Drawing on the collections of the Ningxia Museum, illustrates mainly Qing dynasty objects in various media (with a few earlier andsome later pieces) relating to the Muslim culture in China. Well-illustrated throughout in colour. Text in Chinese.

524 Nishikawa, Kyotaro & Sano, Emily J: THE GREAT AGE OF JAPANESE BUDDHIST SCULPTURE AD 600-1300. Fort Worth, 1982. 151 pp. 49 colour plates. 36 b/w figures. Chronology. Brief bibliography. Index. 30x22 cm.Paper. £15.00With a brief historical survey and accounts of imagery and techniques used.

525 Noguchi, Isamu: THE ISAMU NOGUCHI GARDEN MUSEUM. New York, 1999. 288 pp. 48 colour and 257b/w illustrations. 23x17 cm. Paper. £15.00Noguchi was one of the greatest 20th century sculptors and his work can be seen in public spaces and major museums world-wide.The full breadth of his vision, however, is revealed most clearly at the Isamu Noguchi Garden Museum in Long Island City, New York.

526 Okihiro, Gary: THE COLUMBIA GUIDE TO ASIAN AMERICAN HISTORY. New York, 2001. 352 pp. Cloth.£15.00

A comprehensive reference to a burgeoning area of study.527 Olschak, Blanche Christine: MYSTIC ART OF ANCIENT TIBET. London, 1973. 224 pp. 142 colour and 372

b/w illustrations. 31x25 cm. Cloth. £30.00Profusely illustrated account of Mahayana Buddhism and its development in Tibet. Foreword by Giuseppe Tucci. A scarce reference.

528 Oostveen, J. S. A. van: SCHETS VAN HET STEENGOED VAN YIXING. Aan de Hand van de Verzameling inhet Gemeentelijk Museum Het Princessehof. ’s-Gravenhage, 1981. 78 pp. 53 b/w illustrations. Bibliography. 30x21cm. Paper. £15.00Yixing ware, including a list of potters, based on museum collections in Holland. Text in Dutch.

529 Oriental Ceramic Society: CHINESE TRANSLATIONS NUMBER 12. Early Chinese Glassware. London, 1988.v, 46 pp. 50 b/w illustrations, 1 line drawing. 28x21 cm. Paper. £15.00Translated by Matthew Henderson. Two articles by An Jiayao which were originally published in Kaogu Xuebao, 1984. The main ar-ticle treats early glass manufacture in China, putting into perspective recent finds.

530 Orientations Magazine: CHINESE BRONZES. Selected Articles from Orientations 1983-2000. Hong Kong, 2001.415 pp. 500 colour and 330 b/w plates and illustrations. 28x22 cm. Paper. £44.00An important collection of 59 articles collected from the magazine since 1983, providing a unique source of reference for students ofChinese Bronzes with a wide range of insights into the art and technicalities of Chinese bronze casting and results of up-to-date re-search following on from recent excavations.

531 Pak, Youngsook and Roderick Whitfield: HANDBOOK OF KOREAN ART: BUDDHIST SCULPTURE.London, 2003. 480 pp. 324 colour illustrations. Index, bibliography. 17x13 cm. Paper. £15.00Well-illustrated and packed with information, this is one of four handy guides to Korean art by major authorities in the field. A usefulwork on Korean Buddhist sculpture.

532 Pak, Youngsook and Roderick Whitfield: HANDBOOK OF KOREAN ART: EARTHENWARE ANDCELADON. London, 2003. 280 pp. 238 colour illustrations. Glossary, bibliography. 17x13 cm. Paper. £15.00Well-illustrated and packed with information, this is one of four handy guides to Korean art by major authorities in the field. Includesa map and handy table of decorative motifs.

533 Pal, P: MARVELS OF BUDDHIST ART. Alchi-Ladakh. New York, 1988. 65 pp. text and c.150 pp. colour plates.29x23 cm. Cloth, dustjacket. £20.00Shows the miraculously-preserved Buddhist wall paintings in the monastic complex of Alchi in Ladakh in the Himalayas. The muralswere created by Kashmiri and Tibetan artists between the 11th and 13th centuries. Well illustrated and with an accompanying text bya renowned scholar on the subject.

534 Pal, Pratapaditya: HIMALAYAS. An Aesthetic Adventure. Chicago, 2003. 308 pp. Full colour plates throughoutillustrating 186 items. Numerous additional b/w plates. Bibliography, Index. 32x25 cm. Paper. £30.00Published to accompany the landmark exhibition that explores the finest art created in the Himalayan tradition from the 6th to 19thcenturies. Well-illustrated with many seldom-seen objects. Contributions by Amy Heller, Oskar von Hinüber, and Gautama V. Va-jracharya. Paperback edition.

535 Pal, Pratapaditya ed: NEPAL. Old Images, New Insights. Mumbai, 2004. 148 pp. Colour and b/w illustrationsthroughout. 31x25 cm. Cloth. £20.00A collection of illustrated essays on the arts and artistic achievements of Nepal by various scholars. Includes wall paintings, paint-ing, sculpture, bronzes etc. A good contribution.

536 Pal, Pratapaditya ed: THE PEACEFUL LIBERATORS. Jain Art From India. London, 1999. 279 pp. 225illustrations, 87 in colour. 31x23 cm. Paper. £20.00The most comprehensive presentation to date of the artwork from the Jain religion. Over one hundred and fifty works included displayan astonishing variety of modes and styles. New paperback edition, based on the catalogue of the major exhibition originally at theLos Angeles County Museum of Art. Paperback edition.

537 The Palace Museum ed: GUGONG JINGDIAN: GUGONG ZHONGBIAO. Classics of the Forbidden City:Timepieces in the Imperial Palace. 故宮經典：故宮鐘表. Beijing, 2008. 277 pp. Colour plates throughout. 29x29cm. Boards. £85.00A fine visual and study reference on the extraordinary clocks, watches and timepieces which so fascinated the Qing emperors. Sectionson: Chinese Timepieces Made in the Imperial Workshops in the Forbidden City and in Canton (48); British Timepieces (99); FrenchTimepieces (30) and Swiss Timepieces (18). A total of 195 examples, nearly all with the incredibly elaborate decoration reflecting thetaste of the Qing court. Illustrated throughout in full page colour. Preface, introductory essay, list of plates and captions in English.Main text in Chinese.

538 Paludan, Ann: CHINESE SCULPTURE. A Great Tradition. Chicago, 2006. 396 pp. Over 300 colour plates. 27x22cm. Cloth. £30.00Ann Paludan has been researching Chinese sculpture for thirty years and published regularly during this time. This new book takesinto account the archaeological discoveries that have revolutionised our knowledge of this once-neglected field. It includes many pre-viously unpublished photographs. Written with remarkable style and clarity, the book traces the history of Chinese sculpture throughthe imperial period, and provides a coherent account centred on sculpture as a particularly efficacious art — socially, politically andreligiously — in palace, tomb, temple and other social space. A major contribution.

539 Paludan, Ann: THE IMPERIAL MING TOMBS. New Haven, 1981. 272 pp. 269illustrations, 31 in colour. Appendixes, bibliography, index, charts. 29x22 cm. Cloth.

£20.00Excellent guide to the tombs in the Ming Valley outside Peking, illustrated with the author’s pho-tographs and a history of the mausolea.

540 Pan Yuanshi: ZHONGGUO CHUANTONG BANHUA YISHU TEZHAN. SpecialExhibition: Collectors’ Show of Traditional Chinese Woodcut Prints. 中國傳統版畫藝術特展. Taipei, 1983. 311 pp. 103 colour plates, numerous text illustrations, manyin colour. 27x21 cm. Wrappers. £60.00Sponsored by the Council for Cultural Planning and Development Executive Yuan, this is an inter-esting and copiously-illustrated catalogue of a large exhibition of Chinese colour woodblock printsheld in Taipei. Includes brief but useful introductions in English, together with English captions.Main text in Chinese. Slight damage to top of spine.

541 Parker, Geo. S: THE MYSTERIOUS YANGTZE. A Travelog. Jamesville, 1937. (8),94 pp. 1 frontispiece, 18 plates, 1 map. 19x14 cm. Cloth. £75.00Privately published account of a journey up and down the Yangzi river. A nice clean copy of a scarce Yangtze item.

542 Pei, Fang Jing et al: TREASURES OF THE CHINESE SCHOLAR. Form, Function and Symbolism. New York,1997. 165 pp. 165 colour illustrations. Glossary, index. 26x26 cm. Paper. £25.00A work which presents a detailed and illuminating commentary on the craftsmanship and motifs of the Chinese Scholars’ Studio.

543 Perckhammer, Heinz von: PEKING. Das Gesicht der Stadte. Berlin, 1928. xx, 200 b/w photographs. 30x22 cm.Cloth. £250.00Fascinating evocative photographs of Peking in the 1920’s showing people, architecture and landscapes. More than any of his con-temporaries, Perckhammer’s photography brings across the flavour of the city. Text in German. Captions in English, German, Frenchand Spanish. Now a rare item.

544 Phan Huy Le, John Guy et al: VIETNAM. Art et Culture de la Préhistoire à nos Jours.Brussels, 2003. 272 pp. 220 colour illustrations. Glossary, bibliography. 30x25 cm.Paper. £70.00Finely-produced and well-illustrated catalogue of an exhibition of Vietnamese art shown at lesMusées Royaux d’Art et d’Histoire de Bruxulles and the Museum für Völkerkunde, Vienna. The ex-hibition is notable for the relatively large proportion of folk and applied art. In French. Scarce.

545 Philadelphia Museum of Art: TREASURES FROM KOREA. Arts and Culture of theJoseon Dynasty, 1392-1910. 2014. 331 pp. Colour plates throughout. 31x25 cm.Boards. £45.00Catalogue of an exhibition at the Philadelphia Museum of Art showing fine Korean art dating fromthe Joseon/Choson dynasty. Includes ceramics, furniture, painting, textiles and numerous other typesof object. All illustrated in colour and well-described. Introductory essays by a number of scholars.

546 Pierson, Stacey ed: COLLECTING CHINESE ART. Interpretation and Display. PDF Colloquies, Art &Archaeology in Asia 20. London, 2000. 128 pp. B/w illustrations. 28x21 cm. Paper. £20.00Papers of an interesting colloquy including contributions on the Chinese imperial collection. In three sections; History of Collectionsin Context, Interpretation and Display, Collecting for the Future.

547 PINGDINGSHAN YINGGUO MUDI. (Cemetery of the Ying State at Pingdingshan). 平頂山應國墓地. Beijing,2012. 6, 956 pp. text plus 112 pp. colour plates, 56 pp. b/w plates. Numerous b/w text drawings and diagrams. 1foldout. 2 vols. 27x19 cm. Cloth. £170.00Large two-volume excavation report on a cemetery for aristocrats of the Ying state which existed in China during the Western and East-ern Zhou dynasties. In keeping with its status, the grave goods excavated are of a high quality and include a large number of very finebronzes, small jades and jewellery. Three page abstract in English. Main text in Chinese.


548 Portal, Jane ed: CHINESE LOVE POETRY. London, 2004. 96 pp. 42 colour illustrations, 40 line drawings. 18x15cm. Cloth. £10.00An accessible introduction to the long tradition of Chinese love poetry with calligraphy by the well-known contemporary Chineseartist, Qu Lei Lei.

549 Powell, Florence: IN THE CHINESE GARDEN. A Photographic Tour of the Complete Chinese Garden. NewYork, 1943. 112 pp. 77 b/w photographs, 2 diagrams. 24x16 cm. Cloth, dustjacket. £75.00The Chinese garden, as seen by a visitor walking through it, using the Liu Yuan and the Shizilin gardens in Suzhou as specific illus-tration. With pleasing black-and-white photographs taken in the late 1930s. Good copy with dustjacket. Scarce.

550 Powell, Neil: THE BOOK OF CHANGE. How to understand and use the I Ching. London, 1979. 89 pp. Colourand b/w illustrations. 30x21 cm. Cloth. £15.00An introduction to the I Ching including an outline of its historical and philosophical background and illustrated explanations of eachof the eight trigrams and 64 hexagrams.

551 Pu Anguo: MING QING JIAJU JIANSHANG. Ming and Qing Furniture Appreciation. 明清家具鑑賞。濮安國著. Hangzhou, 2012. 207 pp. Numerous colour plates and text illustrations. 28x22 cm. Wrappers. £30.00Written by an expert on Chinese furniture, this is a good contribution on the discernment and appreciation of Ming and Qing furni-ture. Numerous colour illustrations plus a useful text. Text only in Chinese. Reprint of the 2004 edition.

552 Pu Anguo: MING QING JIAJU ZHUANGSHI YISHU. Decorative Art of Ming and Qing Furniture. 明清家具裝飾藝術。濮安國著. Hangzhou, 2012. 308 pp. Colour illustrations throughout. 28x21 cm. Wrappers. £40.00A detailed visual examination of decorative elements on Ming and Qing furniture ranging from the austerity of Ming furniture to themore detailed decorative elements and carving seen on later Qing furniture. Split into numerous sections — chair backs, decorativepanels, locks, frames etc. Well-illustrated. Text only in Chinese. Reprint of the 2001 edition.

553 Qu Leilei: HERE AND NOW: TO FACE A NEW CENTURY. Installation and Paintings by Qu Lei-lei. London,1999. 32 pp. 20 pp. colour plates. 29x21 cm. Paper. £10.00Exhibition of work by Qu Leilei to mark the end of the 20th century. Held at the Loading Bay Gallery in London.

554 Rastelli, Sabrina ed: CHINA AT THE COURT OF THE EMPERORS. UnknownMasterpieces from Han Tradition to Tang Elegance (25-907). Milan, 2008. 317 pp.Colour plates throughout. 24x28 cm. Cloth. £20.00Catalogue of an exhibition at the Palazzo Strozzi in Florence and then at the Museo di Antichita inTurin showing nearly 200 masterpieces of Chinese art from 32 museums in Shaanxi, Henan, Gansuand Jiangsu provinces, many never exhibited before in the West. The exhibition examined the periodfrom the Eastern Han dynasty through to the Tang dynasty, during which Chinese civilization un-derwent radical transformation culminating in the rise of the Tang dynasty where the synthesis of for-eign and indigenous elements created a dynamic cosmopolitan civilization. Contributions by eminentscholars.

555 Rawson, Jessica ed: THE BRITISH MUSEUM BOOK OF CHINESE ART.London, 1992. 396 pp. 122 colour, 85 b/w illustrations. 47 line drawings. 2 maps.25x19 cm. Paper. £15.00This authoritative and well-illustrated work is an introduction to the important collections of Chinese art in the British Museum, pub-lished in conjunction with the opening of the Joseph E. Hotung Gallery of Oriental Antiquities.

556 Rawson, P. & Legeza, L: TAO. The Chinese Philosophy of Time and Change. London, 1973. 128 pp. 33 colourplates, 157 b/w illustrations. 28x21 cm. Paper. £10.00Taoism was the cult of the masses of the Chinese people. Its culture revolved around divination, magic, medicine and the everyday cer-emonies of life, perceiving life itself as ‘schematic, vulgar and absurd’.

557 Rawson, Philip: THE ART OF SOUTHEAST ASIA. Cambodia Vietnam Thailand Laos Burma Java Bali. Worldof Art. New York, 1967. 288 pp. 251 illustrations, 32 in colour. 21x15 cm. Paper. £10.00This comprehensive and authoritative account surveys a vast array of works of art in every category, from massive architectural com-plexes to tiny bronzes.

558 Rhie, Marilyn M. & Thurman, Robert A. F: THE SACRED ART OF TIBET. Wisdom and Compassion. NewYork 1991. 416 pp. 278 illustrations (263 in colour). 2 Maps. 30x23 cm. Paper. £25.00Photographs by John Bigelow Taylor. Catalogue of the exhibition originally shown in San Francisco, and now at the Royal Academyin London. An outstanding collection more than half of which have never been published before.

559 Rinaldi, Maura: CERAMICS IN SCHOLARLY TASTE. Singapore, 1993. 151 pp. 158 colour illustrations. 30x21cm. Paper. £35.00Catalogue of a jointly organized exhibition by the National Museum of Singapore and the Southeast Asian Ceramic Society, being anassembly of various objects in ceramics which adorned the scholar’s desk or might have been there used. A fine and focussed exhibi-tion. The catalogue hard to fine.

560 Ritchie, Leitch: THE BRITISH WORLD IN THE EAST. A Guide Historical, Moral, and Commercial, to India,China, Australia. London, 1846. xv, 500; xi, 512 pp. 2 vols. 23x15 cm. Later cloth, some foxing. £15.00A historical analysis of India, China, Australia, and South Africa and these countries relationship with Britain. The section on Chinais in volume 2. Ex-library copy.

561 Roberts, Laurance et al: THE BERNARD BERENSON COLLECTION OF ORIENTAL ART AT VILLA ITATTI. New York, 1991. 112 pp. 64 illustrations, 30 in colour. 30x23 cm. Cloth. £20.00Berenson, legendary connoisseur, critic, and collector of Italian art, was also a collector of Oriental Art, covering Chinese paintings,early Chinese gilt-bronze Buddhist figures, fine Khmer sculpture, and other areas.



562 Ronaldshay, The Earl of: A WANDERING STUDENT IN THE FAR EAST. Edinburgh, 1908. xvi, 317; viii, 360pp. 60 photographs, 1 folding map. 2 vols. 21x15 cm. Cloth. £75.00Vol. 1 is mainly devoted to his journey across China’s interior & includes chapters on the opium question & the frontier betweenBurma & China. Vol. 2 is concerned with a critical examination of Japan’s place in the Far East. By Lawrence John Lumley Dundas,second Marquess of Zetland.

563 Ronan, Colin: THE SHORTER SCIENCE AND CIVILISATION IN CHINA. Volume 1. Cambridge, 1978. ix,326 pp. 17 illustrations, 18 tables, 12 text figures. 1 map. 23x16 cm. Cloth. £20.00Covers volumes I and II of the major series by Needham. Introduces to the country of China, its history, geography and language andgives an account of how scientific knowledge travelled between China and Europe. Out of print: slightly rucked up from damp.

564 Ronan, Colin: THE SHORTER SCIENCE AND CIVILISATION IN CHINA. Volume 4. Cambridge, 1994. xv,334 pp. 247-388 b/w illustrations (including many plates). Tables, bibliography, index. 24x16 cm. Cloth. £20.00The shortened version of Joseph Needham’s monumental work is still a substantial and informative contribution to knowledge, although‘prepared with a general non-scientific readership in mind’. This volume covers the main sections of Volume IV, part 2 of its original:Engineers: their status, tools and materials; Basic mechanical principles and types of machines; Land transport; Clockwork; andWindmills and aeronautics.

565 Ronan, Colin: THE SHORTER SCIENCE AND CIVILISATION IN CHINA. Volume 5. Cambridge, 1995.xvi, 364 pp. 389-527 b/w illustrations (including many plates). Tables, bibliography, index. 24x16 cm. Cloth.

£20.00The shortened version of Joseph Needham’s monumental work is still a substantial and informative contribution to knowledge, although‘prepared with a general non-scientific readership in mind’. This volume covers the first sections of Volume IV, part 3 and the final sec-tion of Volume IV, part 2 of its original: Roads; Walls and the Great Wall; Building Technology; Bridges; Hydraulic Engineering: I —Control, construction and maintenance of waterways; II — Water-raising machinery and water as a power source.

566 Rong Xinjiang & Zhang Zhiqing ed: CONG SAMAERGAN DAO CHANG’AN: SUTEREN ZAI ZHONGGUODE WENHUA YIJI. From Samarkand to Chang’an: Cultural Traces of the Sogdians in China. 從撒馬爾干到長安：粟特人在中國的文化遺機。榮新江、張志清主編. Beijing, 2004. 4, 8, 191 pp. Colour and b/willustrations. 29x22 cm. Cloth. £50.00A good contribution on a topic about which there is still relatively little-written. In three main sections: New Investigations on the His-tory of the Sogdians in China; Illustrations of New Archaeological Discoveries Documenting the Sogdians of China (covers the tombsof Sabao Shi, An Jia, Yu Hong and the Sogdian Cemetery at Guyuan); The Epigraphic Record of the Sogdians in Carved Stone. De-tailed list of contents in English. Main text in Chinese.

567 Roos Collection: CATALOGUE OF THE DE ROOS COLLECTION OF JAPANESE ILLUSTRATEDBOOKS. Formed by the late W. H. de Roos. London, 1972. 72 pp. plus 11 plates with 22 items illustrated. 25x19cm. Paper. £20.00Sotheby sale catalogue of one the most important collections to be sold in the West. With annotations. Scarce.

568 (Ross, Captain): DIARY OF A JOURNEY OVERLAND THROUGH THE MARITIME PROVINCES OFCHINA, FROM MANCHAO ON THE SOUTH COAST OF HAINAN TO CANTON, IN THE YEARS 1819AND 1820.. London, 1822. 116 pp. 23x14 cm. Modern cloth. £200.00Printed for Sir Richard Phillips. London. Rare and unattributed journal of a voyage from Macao towards Tenon, in Cochin-China, com-prising a separately-published extract from Sir Richard Phillips’ large publication ‘Voyages and Travels’ Volume VI. While it is notknown who wrote the journal it seems very likely that ‘J.R. Supercargo’ whose name appears at the end of “Advertisement”, a briefnote which precedes the main text in the manner of a foreword, is one Captain Ross, captain of the “Friendship”, the vessel in ques-tion, and who could well have written the diary. An early description of the island of Hainan and its people and which also includesa number of interesting articles: ‘Observations on the State and Improvement of Education and Religion in China and India’; ‘Extractsfrom the Chinese Criminal Code of Laws’; ‘Official Paper from the Canton Government Respecting Opium dated April 5, 1820’; ‘ASketch of the National and Religious Character of China’; ‘Sketch of the Chinese Method of Printing’. Lust 227. Bound in modernbrown cloth-covered boards. Contents very good and clean. Rare.

569 ROSSI & ROSSI; Turman, Robert A. F. et al: HOMAGE TO THE HOLY. Portraits of Tibet’s Spiritual Teachers.London, 2003. c. 100 pp. Colour plates throughout. 27x21 cm. Paper. £25.00Dealer’s catalogue of an exhibition showing 49 very fine examples of sculptures of Tibetan spiritual teachers and holy men, primar-ily in gilt-copper. Well-illustrated in colour and with good descriptive texts by Robert A F Thurman, Francesca Fremantle, SylvieSauvenière and David Weldon.

570 Rovedo, Vittorio: SACRED ANGKOR. The Carved Reliefs of Angkor Wat. Bangkok, 2002. 290 pp. 265 b/wplates, 14 plans. Glossary, bibliography, index. 26x18 cm. Paper. £15.00Focuses in depth on the extraordinary wealth of information contained in the almost 1000 square metres of magnificent bas reliefs,corner pavilions and pediments at Angkor Wat. With detailed photographs — by Jaro Poncar — and a good text.

571 Royal Academy of Arts; David J. Roxburgh ed: TURKS. A Journey of a Thousand Years. London, 2005. 512 pp.765 colour illustrations. 30x25 cm. Paper. £20.00Extensive catalogue of a magnificent exhibition at the Royal Academy, London.

572 Rudova, Maria: CHINESE POPULAR PRINTS. Leningrad, 1988. 178 pp. 178 colour plates. 29x25 cm. Cloth.£55.00

A superb monograph on the Hermitage collection of ‘nianhua’ — colourful woodblock prints traditionally displayed at Chinese NewYear. The collection, perhaps the finest of its kind, was assembled by Vasily Alexeyev. Colour illustrations throughout and a good de-scriptive text. In English.

573 Salisbury, Harrison E: CHINA. 100 Years of Revolution. London, 1983. 256 pp. 32 pp. full colour, over 100 b/willustrations. 23x31 cm. Cloth. £15.00This history begins with the Opium War through 1911 to the Cultural Revolution augmented with 125 remarkable photos and linedrawings.

574 Sato Masahiko: CHINESE CERAMICS. A Short History. Tokyo, 1981. xiii, 255 pp. 16 colour plates, 328illustrations. Appendix, bibliography and index. 24x16 cm. Cloth. £10.00Well-illustrated concise history of Chinese ceramics by a leading scholar.

575 Schalow, Paul Gordon: A POETICS OF COURTLY MALE FRIENDSHIP IN HEIAN JAPAN. Honolulu, 2007.x, 219 pp. Illustrations. 23x16 cm. Cloth. £15.00A study of Heian literature examining the suffering of noblemen and the literary record of their hopes for transcendence throughfriendship. Traces this theme which the author terms ‘courtly male friendship’ in five famous literary works of the period including TheTale of Genji.

576 Schneeberger, Pierre-F: THE BAUR COLLECTION — CHINESE JADES. And Other Hardstones. Geneva,1976. 52 pp. text, 161 pp. catalogue. 24 colour plates, numerous b/w plates & line drawings. 29x23 cm. Cloth.

£300.00A beautifully-illustrated catalogue of this famous collection of Qing jades, including examples of 18th-century jades in the Moghul andTibetan style. Bibliography, glossary. Born 306, Yang 1856. A mint copy as new. Now a very scarce reference.

577 Scott, Rosemary E: FOR THE IMPERIAL COURT. Qing Porcelain from the Percival David Collection. London,1997. 160 pp. 130 colour and 8 b/w illustrations. 26x23 cm. Paper. £20.00Published to accompany a touring exhibition, this well-illustrated catalogue is an excellent new source of information on one of thefinest western collections of Chinese ceramics. The marks of all the pieces are also clearly illustrated in colour.

578 Scott, Rosemary ed: CHINESE COPPER RED WARES. Percival David Foundation Monographs 3. London,1992. 96 pp. 59 illustrations, 34 in colour. 23x17 cm. Paper. £10.00Proceedings of a peripatetic seminar in London, Oxford & Paris, devoted to the subject of copper red wares. The result of individualresearch and also of scholars approaching the various analytical and technological questions from different angles. With annotations.

579 SEKAI BIJUTSU ZENSHU 12-17: CHUGOKU 1-6. (Art of the World: Volumes 12-17: China: 1-6). Tokyo,1962-66. c.250 pp. per volume. A few colour and numerous b/w plates (typically a total of 150 plates or so) to eachvolume. 6 vols. 26x18 cm. Cloth. £300.00The complete set of six volumes on Chinese art in this good series. Vol. 1: Yin, Zhou, Warring States; Vol. 2: Qin and Han; Vol. 3: SixDynasties; Vol. 4: Sui and Tang; Vol. 5: Song and Yuan; Vol. 6: Ming and Qing. Numerous fine examples from the various periods areshown in each volume together with illustrations of some sites in China. The majority of artefacts shown are held in Japanese museumcollections but also include some objects from museums outside Japan. Captions and list of plates (also giving museum collection whereobject held) in English. in each volume. Main text in Japanese. Scarce.

580 Selby, Stephen: ARCHERY TRADITIONS OF ASIA. Baibu Chuanyang: Yazhou Chuantong Sheyi. 百步穿楊：亞洲傳統射藝。謝蕭方著. Hong Kong, 2003. 78 pp. Numerous colour and b/w illustrations and drawings.30x23 cm. Paper. £30.00A useful contribution to the subject that predominantly focuses on China.

581 Shaanxi Archaeological Research Bureau et al. ed: TANG JIEMIN TAIZI FAJUE MU. The Tomb of PrinceJiemin of Tang Dynasty. 唐節愍太子墓發掘報告. Shaanxi Sheng Kaogu Yanjiusuo Tianye Kaogu Baogao Di 28Hao. Beijing, 2004. xii, 214 pp. text plus 16 pp. colour and 36 pp. b/w plates. Numerous b/w text drawings. 2foldouts. 27x20 cm. Boards. £35.00Excavated in 1995, this is the detailed excavation report of the tomb of Tang crown prince Jiemin, who rebelled against the EmpressWei in 707 A.D., fled the court and was subsequently killed by his followers. Later exonerated, Jiemin was buried as a full prince. Histomb was decorated with fine murals and yielded numerous artefacts, including many fine colour-glazed tomb ceramics — horses andfigurines. A good number of the murals and ceramics are illustrated. Two page English abstract. Main text in Chinese.

582 SHAANXI FENGXIANG SUI TANG MU: 1983-1990 NIAN TIANYE KAOGU FAJUE BAOGAO. Tombsof the Sui and Tang Dynasties at Fengxiang of Shaanxi Province: The Excavation Report 1983-1990. 陝西鳳翔隋唐墓： 1983-1990 年田野考古發掘報告. Field Archaeological Report No 57. Shaanxi Provincial Institute ofArchaeology. Beijing, 2008. 4, 23, 335, 24, 112 pp. xxiv colour and cxii b/w plates. Numerous b/w drawings. 1foldout. 29x27 cm. Boards. £70.00Excavation report on Sui and Tang dynasty tombs located around the historically important and wealthy town of Fengxiang in China’sShaanxi province. The tombs yielded quantities of fine tomb figurines and extensive amounts of pottery including sancai, many ofwhich are illustrated here. Five page English abstract. Detailed text in Chinese.

583 Shanecaen, Deborah and Leonov, Gennady: ART OF BURIATIA. Buddhist Icons from Southern Siberia. London,1996. 48 pp. 47 colour illustrations. Select bibliography. 30x21 cm. Paper. £25.00Spink & Son exhibition catalogue of paintings, sculptures and ritual objects from the cultural sphere lying north of Mongolia. This cul-ture is basically Buddhist, as reflected in the 47 objects here presented.

584 Shanghai Museum: SHANGHAI BOWUGUAN YU YINGGUO BATELE JIAZU SUOCANG SHIQI SHIJIJINGDEZHEN CIQI. Seventeenth Century Jingdezhen Porcelain from the Shanghai Museum and the ButlerCollections: Beauty’s Enchantment. 上海博物館與英國巴特勒家族所藏十七世紀景德鎮瓷器. Shanghai, 2005.366 pp. Colour plates throughout. 30x23 cm. Paper. £60.00Catalogue of an exhibition at the Shanghai Museum of 132 examples of seventeenth century Chinese ceramics from the Museum’s col-lection and from the collection of Sir Michael Butler. Most is late Ming — Tianqi, Chongzhen and onwards through Shunzhi to Kangxi.A good amount of fresh material. Colour plates illustrate all exhibits. Dual text in Chinese and English.


585 Shanghai Museum & Shaanxi Museum ed: ZHOU QIN HAN TANG WENMING.The Civilization of Zhou, Qin, Han and Tang Dynasties. 周秦漢唐文明. Shanghai,2004. 15, 305 pp. Colour plates throughout. 31x24 cm. Boards. £50.00Catalogue of an outstanding exhibition at the Shanghai Museum held at the end of 2004. The exhi-bition showed treasures dating from the Zhou, Qin, Han and Tang dynasties from the collection of theShaanxi Provincial Museum and numerous other museums in Shaanxi province. The exhibition wasin three sections: 1. Decorative Arts — including extraordinary Western Zhou bronzes and majornew finds from the Mausoleum of Qin Shi Huangdi. Further treasures in this section included objectsfrom the Hejiacun gold hoard and four of the stone-carved steed of the Tang Emperor, Taizong. 2.Frescoes — 83 fine frescoes from tombs dating from the Qin to the Han. 3. Famen Temple — 97 su-perb relics from the crypt at Famen Temple. List of exhibits, introductions to each major grouping offinds and captions in English. Main text in Chinese. Out-of-print. Some bumps to covers.

586 Shanghai Museum ed: JING YANG QIANKUN: LUOYIDE KOUCENXIANSHENG JUANZENG TONGJING JINGCUI. World in Mirror: SelectedBronze Mirrors from Lloyd Cotsen’s Donation. 鏡吷乾坤：羅伊德。扣岑先生捐贈銅鏡精粹. Shanghai, 2012.139 pp. Full page colour plates throughout. Colour text plates and b/w reproductions of rubbings of mirror patterns.30x23 cm. Wrappers. £50.00Catalogue of an exhibition at the Shanghai Museum celebrating the donation by the American collector, Lloyd Cotsen, of 59 very fineChinese bronze mirrors dating from the Qijia culture through to the Jin dynasty. All illustrated in colour and described. Introductionand captions in English. Main text in Chinese.

587 Shen Jisun: MOFA JIYAO. (Illustrated Essentials of Ink Manufacture). 墨法集要。沈繼孫撰 . N.p.(Xiangxiang), 1894. 28 folded leaves. 20 b/w woodcut illustrations of the stages of ink stick production and oneb/w woodcut illustration of ink stick moulds. 28x17 cm. Stitched, modern cloth case. £1,500.00Late Qing Guangxu period reworking of the 1775 Qianlong edition. The text truncated but retaining the illustrations of the originalversion.This classic work on ink production was by the Ming author, Shen Jisun. Shen’s preface to his original Hongwu period edition of the

work was dated 1398. The book was selected for inclusion in the Qianlong period collectanea, ‘Juzhenban Congshu’ produced in the‘Wuyingdian’ imperial print shop. ‘Juzhenban’ generally refers to books printed with the copper moveable type that was used for a num-ber of famous Qianlong period imperial book projects. The text and accompanying illustrations are considered to be an importantrecord of traditional methods of making and decorating ink sticks. Shen’s process concentrates on ink made from tong oil lampblackrather than pine soot. Twenty stages of production are shown culminating in proving the actual use of the ink for calligraphy, and anillustration of a multipart mould arrangement for fashioning and decorating ink sticks.Reprinted by a Mr. Xie Songdai of Xiangxiang — Xiangxiang being located in Hunan province.All text in Chinese. In fine condition. rare.

588 Shi Gufeng: JIN WEI SUI TANG CANMO. (Fragments of Calligraphy from the Jin, Wei, Sui, and Tang Periods).晉魏隋唐殘墨。石谷風. Hefei, 1992. 12, 97 pp. Including 90 pp. of colour plates. 30x22 cm. Cloth. £15.00This is an interesting collection of manuscript fragments, chiefly from Dunhuang, which have been preserved in a private collection(Gufeng Tang) in China. The illustrations are not perfect, but they are in colour, showing the characteristics of Dunhuang mss. In Chi-nese.

589 Singer, Jane Casey: BEYOND LHASA. Sculpture and Painting from East and West Tibet. London, 2002. 56 pp.24 items illustrated in colour plates, 2 folding. Bibliography. 30x21 cm. Wrappers. £25.00Rossi and Rossi sale catalogue of some very fine pieces from outside the Tibetan capital.

590 Sirén, Osvald: CHINESE AND JAPANESE SCULPTURES AND PAINTINGS IN THE NATIONALMUSEUM. Stockholm, 1931. 48 pp. text plus 63 pp. b/w plates. 32x24 cm. Boards. £50.00Buddhist sculptures and paintings of various genres in the National Museum, Stockholm. English text. Scarce. Ex-library copy withusual stamps. Starting to split at joins with spine. Priced accordingly.

591 Sirén, Osvald: THE CHINESE GARDEN: A WORK OF ART IN THE FORMS OF NATURE (TEXTCOMES FROM SIREN: GARDENS IN CHINA). Offprint Oriental Art. N.p., n.d. pp. 24-32. B/w illustrations.29x23 cm. Paper. Covers worn £10.00

592 Sirén, Osvald: CHINESE SCULPTURE FROM THE FIFTH TO THE FOURTEENTH CENTURY. Over900 Specimens in Stone, Bronze, Lacquer and Wood. Chicago, 1997. 240 pp. text. 670 b/w plates showing over 900sculptures. 2 vols. 31x24 cm. Cloth. £250.00The sculptures are mainly from Northern China and, of course, primarily Buddhist in subject. A monumental, standard reference.Unabridged reprint.

593 Siren, Osvald: HUANG T’ING-CHIEN ON THE ART OF CALLIGRAPHY. Unknown. N.p., n.d. 7 pp. 29x22cm. Paper. £10.00Offprint

594 Siren, Osvald: LA SCULPTURE CHINOISE A L’EXPOSITION DE L’ORANGERIE. Offprint Revue des ArtsAsiatiques Tome XI, Fasc. 1. Paris, 1937. pp. 1-8 plus 4 pp. b/w plates. 29x22 cm. Paper. £20.00

595 Smithers, Leonard C. ed: THE TRANSMIGRATIONS OF THE MANDARIN FUM-HOAM (CHINESETALES). London, 1894. viii, 252, iv pp. 22x14 cm. Decorative cloth. £20.00Despite the title, the tales within derive from the Moghul and Western Asian literary traditions.


596 Smithies, Michael et al: THE MONS. Collected articles from the Journal of the Siam Society. Bangkok, 1986. 82pp. 19 illustrations. 22x15 cm. Cloth. £15.00A collection of 5 articles, including: Halliday ‘Immigration of the Mons into Siam,’ Foster ‘Ethnic Identity of the Mons,’ etc. With in-troduction by Michael Smithies.

597 So, Jenny F & Emma C. Bunker: TRADERS AND RAIDERS ON CHINA’S NORTHERN FRONTIER.Washington, 1995. 224 pp. 125 illustrations, 40 in colour. 2 maps. Notes, bibliography, index. 31x22 cm. Paper.

£30.00Published on the occasion of an exhibition at the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, this book, filled with previously unpublished objects,shows the intercourse between the pastoral tribes on China’s northern borders with the Chinese urban dwellers, during the first mil-lennium B.C. An excellent catalogue.

598 Sotheby’s: CATALOGUE OF ORIENTAL MANUSCRIPTS, INDIAN AND PERSIAN MINIATURES.Bibliotheca Phillippica: New Series: Medieval and Oriental Manuscripts Part IX. London, 1974. x, 129 pp. Colourfrontispiece, a good number of colour and b/w plates. 29x22 cm. Boards. £15.00Auction catalogue forming a part of the long ongoing dispersal of the celebrated collection of Sir Thomas Phillips. Some 150 lots.

599 Sotheby’s: A PRIVATE COLLECTION OF YIXING TEAPOTS. from the Chen Yang Foundation. Taipei, 1997.49 pp. Colour illustrations throughout. 28x22 cm. Cloth. £25.00Sotheby’s Taipei sale catalogue of 30 lots of fine Yixing teapots. All illustrated in colour (including base marks) and with brief de-scriptions in English. Fuller descriptions in Chinese.

600 Sotheby’s,: CHINA IN PRINT AND ON PAPER. London, 2016. 148 pp. Colour illustrations throughout. Onefoldout. 27x21 cm. Paper. £15.00Auction catalogue of 266 printed and manuscript items and works relating to China. The bulk of the auction comes from two collec-tions, that of Bernard Hanotiau and Floyd Sully. Includes many fine and rare works ranging from early Jesuit printing, illustrated ac-counts of early missions and early photography to woodblock-printed works and manuscript maps. A wealth of fascinating items, allillustrated in colour and fully described.

601 Soulie de Morant, George: A HISTORY OF CHINESE ART. From Ancient Times to the Present Day. London,1931. 296 pp. 80 plates, 73 text illustrations. 25x20 cm. Cloth, dustjacket. £30.00A comprehensive although slightly dated account due to then-recent archaeological findings. First edition. A nice period piece.

602 Speelman, A. and J: CHINESE SCULPTURE AND WORKS OF ART. London, 2002. 123 pp. Colour platesthroughout. 31x22 cm. Cloth. £20.00Dealer’s catalogue of a fine selection of 58 Chinese works of art. Includes very fine cloisonné, Peking glass and ivory carving.

603 Speelman, A. and J: CHINESE WORKS OF ART 2006. London, 2006. 123 pp. Colour plates throughout. 31x22cm. Cloth. £20.00Dealer’s catalogue of a fine selection of Chinese works of art, predominantly Ming and Qing, ranging from Kangxi porcelain to lac-quer tables.

604 Spence, Jonathan D: EMPEROR OF CHINA: SELF PORTRAIT OF K’ANG-HSI. London, 1977. xxvi, 218pp. Index. Text illustrations. 20x13 cm. Paper. £10.00The life and motives of the 17th-century emperor from primary material.

605 Spink: VISIONS OF PERFECT WORLDS. Buddhist Art from the Himalayas. London, 1999. 128 pp. Colourplates throughout. 32x25 cm. Paper. £30.00A wide range of fine artefacts from the region are well-illustrated in this dealer’s catalogue, written by Deborah Ashencaen & Gen-nady Leonov, with an introduction by Tadeusz Skorupski.

606 Spink & Son: THE MIRROR OF MIND. Art of Vajrayana Buddhism. London, 1995. 107 pp. 66 objects illustratedin colour. Glossary, bibliography. 30x21 cm. Paper. £30.00Catalogue of Tibetan Buddhist statuettes, ivories, textiles, furniture and other religious objects for sale at Spink & Son, plus a collec-tion of 288 photographs taken by Henry Martin around 1908. Excellent illustrations.

607 Spink & Son Ltd: CHINESE ART AT SPINK. London, 1991. 49 pp, with 90 coloured illustrations. 30x21 cm.Paper. £10.00Another of Spink’s scholarly and well illustrated catalogues of the minor arts, covering lacquer, ivory, metal, enamel, glass and jadeobjects etc.

608 Spink & Son Ltd: CHINESE JADE — AN IMPORTANT PRIVATE COLLECTION. London, 1991. 84 pp. withover 105 colour plates. 30x21 cm. Paper. £55.00Scarce catalogue of a very fine collection of Chinese jade — exciting for its breadth and quality. Illustrates in colour and describesover 160 examples of jade from archaic times to the Qing period. Bi discs and cong, a good number of jade animals, belt plaques, flowerornaments, cicadas, belt hooks.

609 Steinhardt, Nancy: CHINESE ARCHITECTURE IN AN AGE OF TURMOIL, 200-600. Honolulu, 2014. xxix,465 pp. Numerous colour and b/w illustrations and b/w architectural drawings. 29x21 cm. Cloth. £68.95Erudite, interesting and most informative account of early Chinese architecture by an acknowledged expert on the subject.

610 Stevenson, John & Guy, John: VIETNAMESE CERAMICS: A SEPARATE TRADITION. Chicago, 1996. c.450 pp. with over 500 colour illustrations. 29x21 cm. Cloth. £60.00Explores and elucidates the distinctive and unique features of Vietnamese ceramics. The best work to date on the subject, this book com-bines work by experts from around the world. Traces the history and development, kiln sites, techniques and trade.


611 Stierlin, Henri: THE CULTURAL HISTORY OF ANGKOR. Geneva, 1979. 96 pp. Colour photographsthroughout. 32x23 cm. Boards. £10.00A good well-photographed survey of this astonishing site and its culture.

612 Strachan, Paul: PAGAN. Art and Architecture of Old Burma. Edinburgh, 1989. 159 pp. Glossary, bibliography,index. 246 illustrations, 54 in colour. 30x22 cm. Cloth. £25.00A beautiful study of this ancient Buddhist centre comprising over 2000 temples, monasteries and pagodas.

613 Strassberg, Richard E: MASTER OF TRADITION: THE ART OF CHANG TA-CH’IEN. Pasadena, 1983. xi,109 pp. 67 illustrations, 10 in colour. 22x28 cm. Paper. £20.00Catalogue from the Pacific Asia Museum.

614 Sullivan, Michael: THE ARTS OF CHINA. Fourth Edition, Revised and Expanded. Berkeley, 1999. 342 pp. 214b/w illustrations, 168 colour illustrations. 14 maps. 25x22 cm. Paper. £10.00For this fourth edition of his classic history of Chinese art from the Neolithic period to the 1990s, Michael Sullivan has drawn on thearchaeological discoveries in the last two decades of the twentieth century. Research on more recent dynasties has also led him to freshinterpretations of well-documented historical events and artworks. This edition has over 300 illustrations, most of them newly incor-porated.

615 Sullivan, Michael: THE CAVE TEMPLES OF MAICHISHAN. London, 1969. xiv, 77 pp. 104 b/w plates, 8colour plates, text figures, map. Bibliography, index. 29x23 cm. Cloth. £35.00With photographs by Dominique Darbois and an account of the exhibition in 1968 to Maichishan by Anil de Silva. These caves werefirst surveyed in 1952-53 which provided a wealth of information.

616 Sullivan, Michael: THE MEETING OF EASTERN AND WESTERN ART. Fromthe Sixteenth Century to the Present Day. Berkeley, 1998. 320 pp. Illustrations. 25x17cm. Paper. £15.00A revised and expanded edition. A discourse of four centuries of exciting interaction between theartists of China and Japan and the artists of Western Europe. New in paperback.

617 Tao Jiming ed: HAISHANG JUEJI: JIADING ZHUKE YISHU. (The Craft ofJiading Bamboo Carving). 海上�技：嘉定竹刻藝術。陶繼明主編. Shanghai,2010. 167 pp. Colour illustrations throughout. 23x16 cm. Paper. £25.00A study of the important Jiading school of bamboo carving that flourished during the Ming and Qingdynasties in China. Illustrated throughout with numerous examples of fine bamboo carvings. In Chi-nese.

618 Tate Liverpool: THE REAL THING. Contemporary Art from China. London, 2007.207 pp. Numerous colour illustrations. 28x19 cm. Wrappers. £10.00Produced to accompany an exhibition held at Tate Liverpool in 2007. Describes the career and works of the 18 Chinese artists whoexhibited.

619 Thompson, Nancy: THE EVOLUTION OF THE T’ANG LION AND GRAPEVINE MIRROR. With AnAddendum: The “Jen Shou” Mirrors by Alexander C. Soper. Offprint from Artibus Asiae Vol. XXIX. Ascona, 1967.Pp. 25-66. 22 illustrations. 31x24 cm. Paper. £15.00An analysis of the origins of the lion and grapevine mirror.

620 Tianjin Museum ed: JIJIN: MING QING TONGLU TEZHAN. Selected Bronze Censers of the Ming and QingDynasties. 吉金：明清銅廬特展. Tianjin, 2015. 293 pp. Full page colour plates throughout. Small colour textplates. 29x22 cm. Cloth. £100.00Catalogue of an exhibition held at the Tianjin Museum in China showing an extensive and varied selection of very fine Ming and Qingdynasty bronze incense burners, including imperial examples. The bronzes presumably from the Museum’s collection. A total of 264exhibits, all illustrated in full page colour and with basemarks shown. Introduction, prefaces to each section and captions to plates (including dimensions) in English. Main text in Chinese. A very usefuladdition to the somewhat sparse literature on the subject. Now out-of-print and hard to find.

621 Tie Yuan ed: GUDAI ZHU MU YA JIAO. (Old Bamboo, Wood, Ivory and Rhinoceros Horn Objects). 古代竹木牙角。鐵源主編. Beijing, 2002. 156 pp. Colour photographs throughout. 21x14 cm. Paper. £15.00A useful guide for the identification and pricing of Ming and Qing dynasty items made from wood, bamboo, ivory and rhinoceros hornsold at auction in China over the last few years. Good colour photographs. Prices in RMB. In Chinese only.

622 Tokyo Ancient Orient Museum: ANCIENT BRONZES FROM THE YUNNAN PROVINCIAL MUSEUM.Yunnan Bowuguan Qingtongqi Zhan. 雲南博物館青銅器展. Tokyo, 1984. 149 pp. Numerous b/w illustrations, 34colour plates, text-figures, map. 25x22 cm. Paper. £30.00Catalogue of a travelling exhibition of bronzes, Stone-Age artefacts, and ethnic artefacts. Shown at the Ancient Orient Museum in Tokyoin 1984. Primarily the fascinating bronzes from the time of the Dian Kingdom. Japanese text with brief captions in English. Scarce.

623 Tokyo National Museum: KOKO BUNMEI TEN. (Exhibition of Art of the Yellow River). Tokyo, 1986. 202 pp.136 colour plates, numerous b/w illustrations. 26x21 cm. Wrappers. £20.00A sumptuous catalogue of cultural relics excavated along the Yellow River in China in the 1970s and 80s. Objects range from earlybronzes, ceramics, gold and silver, sculpture, etc. All 136 objects illustrated. Captions in English. Main text in Japanese.

624 Tokyo National Museum: TOYO NO BIJUTSU. (Asiatic art). Tokyo, 1969. 309 pp. (21 pp. English text). 244 b/willustrations and 22 in colour. 37x28 cm. Cloth, dustjacket. £25.00A pictorial record of the exhibition which was held in commemoration of the opening of the Asiatic department. The 21 pages of En-glish text describe the objects illustrated, primarily Chinese and Japanese art in various media. A mint copy.



625 Toledo Museum of Art: FRESH IMPRESSIONS. Early Modern Japanese Prints. Seattle, 2014. 348 pp. Colourplates throughout. 2 foldouts. 31x26 cm. Cloth. £100.00Catalogue of a great exhibition at the Toledo Museum of Art recreating the exhibition of modern Japanese prints held at the same mu-seum in 1930. The 1930 exhibition was then at the cutting edge of the ‘shin hanga (new print) movement and was a watershed in thesuccess of the movement. This catalogue reproduces all 343 prints from the 1930 exhibition which showed the striking work of 10 shinhanga artists, including Hasiguchi Goyo, Kawase Hasui and Hiroshi Yoshida. Detailed essays and descriptions accompany. A bargainat the price. Recommended but now sadly out-of-print and hard to find.

626 Topolski, Feliks: HOLY CHINA. London, 1968. 194 illustrations, including1 in colour. Many illustrations are double-spread. 29x22 cm. Cloth. £20.00Topolski drew Chiang Kai-shek’s China many years ago, and spent several months thereagain in the early days of the Cultural Revolution. His drawings are interspersed with ashort staccato and interesting text.

627 Yamagami, Hatiro: JAPAN’S ANCIENT ARMOUR. Tourist Library 31.Tokyo, 1940. 82 pp. 58 illustrations, 2 in colour. 19x13 cm. Paper. £30.00Details the various protections worn by the samurai. Part of the highly-collectable TouristLibrary series.

628 Trautz, Von Friedrich: CEYLON. Germany, 1926. xv, 132 pp. text plus 128b/w full page photographs. Folding map. 29x23 cm. Cloth. £30.00A photographic tour of Ceylon, its scenery, people and culture as seen in the early 20th cen-tury. In German.

629 Tsultem, N: THE EMINENT MONGOLIAN SCULPTOR — G. ZANABAZAR. Ulan Bator, 1982. 126 pp.110 plates mostly in colour. 30x22 cm. Cloth. £35.00A monograph on a 17th-century bronze sculptor, many of whose works in the Sino-Tibetan Buddhist style are still extant. Text in Rus-sian, English, French, and Spanish.

630 Uhlig, Helmut: ON THE PATH TO ENLIGHTENMENT. The Berti Aschmann Foundation of Tibetan Art in theMuseum Rietberg. Zürich, 1995. 226 pp. 168 colour plates and illustrations. Bibliography. 30x23 cm. Hard boards. £40.00Impressive exhibition catalogue from Museum Rietberg of the Tibetan art assembled by Berti Aschmann, comprising 143 Buddhistbronzes, as well as thangkas and ritual objects of admirable artistic quality.

631 Vainker, Shelagh: CHINESE SILK. A Cultural History. London, 2004. 224 pp. 130colour and 10 b/w illustrations. 25x26 cm. Cloth. £30.00Traces the story of silk in China from the Neolithic to the 20th century and considers its role in Chi-nese history, trade religion and literature. Draws upon recent archaeological evidence and muchnew material. Illustrated throughout in colour. Accompanies an exhibition at the Ashmolean Mu-seum in Oxford.

632 Vainker, Shelagh J: CHINESE POTTERY AND PORCELAIN. From Prehistory tothe Present. London, 1991. 240 pp. 100 colour & 80 b/w illustrations. 25x19 cm. Cloth.

£15.00Published to accompany an exhibition held 25 Jan to 18 Aug 1991, this is a comprehensive and well-illustrated survey by a curator in the Department of Oriental Antiquities at the British Museum.

633 van Dyke, Paul A: MERCHANTS OF CANTON AND MACAO. Politics and Strategies in Eighteenth-CenturyChinese Trade. Hong Kong, 2011. xxxii, 1, 545 pp. text plus 92 pp. colour plates. Map. 23x16 cm. Cloth. £59.00An in-depth study with much detail aided and assisted by illustration of numerous contemporary documents. Much new informationpresented about the merchants active in the 18th century and valuable insights into the growth of Sino-Western trade during this pe-riod.

634 Vever Collection: HIGHLY IMPORTANT JAPANESE PRINTS, ILLUSTRATED BOOKS ANDDRAWINGS. From the Henri Vever Collection, Part I. London, 1974. x, 382 pp. 412 illustrations, some in colourand foldout. Bibliography. 30x22 cm. Cloth. £55.00First part of the sale of this famous collection held at Sotheby’s London, 1974. Abrams D9.

635 von Achenbach, Nora: CHINESISCHE KUNST IM MUSEUM FUR KUNST UND GEWERBE HAMBURG.Chinese Art in the Museum fur Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg. 漢堡藝術和工藝美術博物館之中國藝術珍藏品. Hamburg, 2012. 386 pp. Full page and text colour plates throughout. 31x23 cm. Cloth. £200.00A survey of the little-known collection of Chinese art in this German museum. Illustrated throughout and predominantly showing fineChinese ceramics from many dynasties together with a good number of objects in other media. Texts in German, Chinese and English.Out-of-print and now hard to find.

636 von Spee, Clariss ed: THE PRINTED IMAGE IN CHINA. From the 8th to the 21st Centuries. London, 2010.192 pp. Colour and b/w illustrations throughout. 24x24 cm. Paper. £15.00Catalogue of an exhibition at the British Museum showing 100 examples from their collection of traditional, modern and contempo-rary Chinese prints. Ranges from Buddhist woodblock prints at Dunhuang through Ming dynasty flower prints to copperplate en-gravings of the Yuanmingyuan, Qing dynasty new year prints, 20th century propaganda prints, Xu Bing’s Tianshu and work by printartists active today. A concise and well-illustrated survey of the subject with accompanying scholarly essays.


637 Wachs, Iris and Chang Tsong-zung: HALF A CENTURY OF CHINESE WOODBLOCK PRINTS. From theCommunist Revolution to the Open Door Policy and Beyond. Harod, 1999. 230 pp. Numerous b/w illustrations, afew in colour. 32x21 cm. Paper. £30.00Catalogue of an exhibition of modern Chinese woodblock prints held at Museum of Art ein Harod in Israel and then travelling aroundthe United States, showing the Chinese woodblock print and its development under the Chinese communists from the 1940s onwards.Well-written and showing a broad range of the genre.

638 Wain, Peter: AWAITING SPRING. Qianjiang Art on Chinese Porcelain. London, 1998. 64 pp. Colour illustrationsthroughout showing 91 pieces. 21x21 cm. Paper. £25.00Catalogue of the first exhibition to be held on the subject of Qianjiang porcelain painting which flourished in the latter half of the 19thcentury. Qianjiang painting is landscape painting outlined with ink and complemented by pale umber. It lends itself well to porcelaindecoration. Objects shown include brushpots, plaques, teawares, bowls, hatstands etc. A groundbreaking exhibition.

639 Waley, Arthur: THREE WAYS OF THOUGHT IN ANCIENT CHINA. London, 1939. 276 pp. 20x14 cm. Cloth.£20.00

Contains translations from Zhuangzi, Mencius and the Realists. First edition some foxing and without dustjacket. Johns A27.640 Waley, Arthur intro: CHIN P’ING MEI. The Adventurous History of Hsi Men and his six Wives. New York, 1982.

xxii, 863 pp. 20x14 cm. Paper. £15.00A picaresque account of the amorous adventures of Xi Men, compiled in the 16th century, and periodically listed by the Chinese as aprohibited book for its deviation from the puritanical canons of official Confucianism. From the German abridged translation by FranzKuhn. Introduction by Arthur Waley. Reprint of 1939. Paperback.

641 Wan Pengfei ed: FEINUO CANG JIN (CHUNQIU ZHANGUO BIAN). (Metalwork Collected by Feinuo fromthe Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States). 飛諾藏金（春秋戰國編）。宛鵬飛編著. Zhengzhou,2012. 138 pp. Full page colour plates throughout. 29x22 cm. Cloth. £60.00An interesting selection of some 50 examples of ancient Chinese bronze weaponry dating from the Spring and Autumn Period and theWarring States. Of particular note is that all the pieces shown have inlaid or inscribed characters. Illustrated throughout. In Chinese.

642 WAN TANG QIAN KUAN FUFU MU. The Qian Kuan Couple Tombs in Late Tang. 晚唐錢寬夫婦墓. Beijing,2012. 13, 133 pp. text plus 79 pp. colour plates. Numerous b/w text plates and b/w drawings. A number of foldouts.29x23 cm. Boards. £75.00Archaeological report on the tombs of the parents of Qian Lu, King of the Wuyue State of the Five Dynasties period. Located at Ming-tang mountain near the city of Lin’an in China’s Zhejiang province, the tombs were excavated in 1978 and 1980. One tomb was un-touched. The tombs yielded fine white-glazed ceramics and green-glazed ceramics with painted designs, together with numerousinteresting gold artefacts, a couple of unusual form. The major finds are illustrated here together with pictures of the tombs’ architec-ture and interior decoration. Two page abstract in English. Main text in Chinese.

643 Wan Yi ed: GUGONG CIDIAN (ZENGDING BEN). (An Encyclopedia of the Forbidden City: Revised andEnlarged Edition ). 故宮辭典 (增訂本）。萬依主編. Beijing, 2016. 78, 1033 pp. 26x15 cm. Cloth. £50.00A huge amount of information contained within on the architecture, palaces, halls and places of worship, history during the Ming andQing dynasties, emperors, officials and eunuchs, the art collections and much, much more. In Chinese only. Revised and enlarged edi-tion of a work first published in 1997.

644 Wang Binghua; Mair, Victor trans: XINJIANG GU SHI: GUDAI XINJIANG JUMIN JI QI WENHUA. TheAncient Corpses of Xinjiang: The Peoples of Ancient Xinjiang and Their Culture. 新疆古尸：古代新疆居民及其文化。王炳華主編. Urumqi, 2001. 245 pp. over 150 colour and b/w illustrations. 29x21 cm. Paper. £80.00A study on the ancient corpses excavated in Xinjiang and their accompanying burial items, mainly clothing, textiles and small personalitems. Excellent colour plates. Gives much information on the ethnic peoples of the region and their life. Detailed texts in both Chi-nese and English.

645 Wang Ganghuai ed: ZHONGGUO JINIAN TONGJING: XIHAN ZHI LIUDAI. (Dated Chinese Bronze Mirrorsfrom the Western Han through to the Six Dynasties). 中國紀年銅鏡：西漢至六朝。王�懷編著. Shanghai,2015. 14, 2, 5, 188 pp. 14 pp. colour plates and 162 pp. b/w plates and b/w illustrations of rubbings of mirrors. 29x22cm. Boards. £60.00Illustrated throughout with a total of 151 examples and, with all the mirrors bearing dates, this is a useful dating guide. Text in Chi-nese

646 Wang Guanqing: HUIZHOU DAGUAN — HUIPAI DIAOKE YISHU. (The Sculptor’s Art of Huizhou). 徽州大觀－徽派雕刻藝術。王觀清主編. Shanghai, 1989. 130 pp. Colour plates throughout. Chinese text only.27x24 cm. Cloth. £15.00Good colour illustrations of the decorative carving (chiefly relief) in wood and stone which is characteristic of Huizhou. Illustrationstaken from furniture, wood panelling, architectural decorations, etc.

647 Wang Huaqing et al. ed: QINGZHOU LONGXINGSI FOJIAO ZAOXIANG YISHU. (The Art of the BuddhistStatuary at Longxing Temple in Qingzhou). 青州龍興寺佛教造像藝術。王華慶等主編. Ji’nan, 1999. 6, 18,193 pp. 225 colour plates. Colour illustrations and line drawings. 29x22 cm. Cloth. £40.00A book which complements the catalogue “Masterpieces of Buddhist Statuary from Qingzhou City” of the exhibition held at the Bei-jing History Museum in 1999. In addition to the major pieces shown at the exhibition, this work shows a number of other pieces andlesser finds plus details, close-ups and views of sculptures not shown in the exhibition catalogue. Informative text in Chinese only.

648 Wang Jia ed: ZHONGGUO MING SHAN. Famous Mountains in China. 中國名山。王佳編著. Hefei, 2012.164 pp. Colour text illustrations throughout. 21x17 cm. Wrappers. £20.00In three sections: Three Great Mountains and Five Sacred Mountains; Famous Buddhist Mountains; Famous Taoist Mountains. Auseful guide. Dual texts in Chinese and English.

649 Wang Jinhua: ZHONGGUO CHUANTONG FUSHI XIU HEBAO. (Traditional Chinese Embroidered Bags). 中國傳統服飾繡荷包。王金華著. Beijing, 2015. 336 pp. Full page colour plates. 31x24 cm. Cloth. £80.00A pleasing, extensive and varied selection of these delicately-embroidered small bags or pouches worn and used as a clothing acces-sory in the traditional dress of Chinese women. The large majority of the bags are dated as Qing dynasty with a number of examplesbeing early 20th century Republic period. Text in Chinese.

650 Wang Qingxiang: THE LAST EMPEROR AND HIS FIVE WIVES. Beijing, 2014. 467 pp. B/w text illus. 23x16cm. Wrappers. £30.00A condensed historical biography of the last Emperor of China, Pu Yi, focussing on his relationships with the little-known five con-sorts and wives who shared his life. In English.

651 Wang Qingzheng et al: THE DISCOVERY OF RU KILN. A Famous Song-Ware Kiln of China. Hong Kong,1991. 122 pp. with 74 colour & 18 b/w illustrations. 26x19 cm. Paper. £40.00English version of the 1987 Chinese edition, with more colour plates, of the important discoveries at the Ru Kiln in Baofeng country,Henan. This volume features samples in ash grey and sky blue. 300 copies printed.

652 Wang Shilun ed: ZHEJIANG CHUTU TONGJING. (Mirrors Unearthed in Zhejiang). 浙江出土銅鏡。王士倫編. Beijing, 1987. 71 pp. text. 20 colour and 185 b/w photographs. 26x19 cm. Paper. £15.00Features bronze mirrors from the Han, Three Kingdoms, Jin, Sui, Tang, Song, Yuan, Ming, and Qing. A reprint of the 1958 original.Text in Chinese.

653 Wang Shumin: LIUZI JIZHENG. (The Liuzi — a Critical Edition). 劉子集證. Zhongyang Yanjiuyuan Lishi YuyanYanjiusuo, 44. Taibei, 1961. 408 pp. 2 vols. 27x16 cm. Stitched, cloth case. £30.00Critical edition of the Daoist work attributed variously to Liu Xin, Liu Xie and Liu Jun. Edited and annotated by Wang Shumin.

654 Wang Weilian & Li Mi ed: ZHU MU WENWAN. (Bamboo and Wood Scholar’s Studio Objects). 竹木文玩。王維廉李宓主編. Beijing, 2012. 12, 269 pp. 253 pp. colour plates. 29x21 cm. Boards. £90.00Rather good and well-illustrated work showing 188 examples of Chinese bamboo and wood carvings from two private collections inChina. Loosely arranged by type of carving — brushpots, figurines, small carved cups etc. The quality of the objects is generally verygood and all are illustrated in colour plates with signatures of carvers shown. Brief captions to plates in English. Main text in Chi-nese. Useful 16 page appendix (listed alphabetically by pronunciation of character) of names of carvers with brief information on eachcarver. A worthwhile contribution to the subject.

655 WANG XIZHI SHUFA JI. The Calligraphy of Wang Xizhi). 王羲之書法集. Beijing, 2005. 434 pp. Colour andb/w plates throughout each volume. 2 vols. 29x21 cm. Boards. £55.00Fine two-volume work showing the work of China’s most renowned calligrapher, Wang Xizhi. Both volumes illustrated throughout incolour showing the known examples of his work and rubbings. A prime visual reference. Text in Chinese.

656 Wang Xueli: JIEDU QIN YONG: KAOGU QINLIZHE DE SHIJIAO. (Interpreting the Terracotta Army: APersonal Archaeological Perspective). 解讀秦俑：考古亲歷者的視角。王學理著. Beijing, 2011. 10, 545 pp.plus 8 pp. of 73 colour plates. Numerous b/w in text drawings and diagrams throughout. 27x19 cm. Cloth.£40.00Written by an archaeologist who has worked extensively with the excavation of the Terracotta Army of Emperor Qinshihuang. Text onlyin Chinese.

657 Wang Zhongmin: DUNHUANG GUJI XULU. (Critical Bibliography of Dunhuang MSS). 敦煌古籍敘錄。王重民著. Beijing, 1979 10, 384 pp. 21x14 cm. Paper. £35.00An important classified and annotated catalogue of secular works which were included amongst the manuscript and other books inthe walled-up library discovered in Dunhuang at the beginning of the century. First published in 1958, and here republished withoutchange or reference to earlier edition.

658 Wang Ziyun: ZHONGGUO DIAOSU YISHU SHI. (A History of Chinese Sculptural Art). 中國雕塑藝術史.Beijing, 1988. Vol. 1: 5, 5, 3, 457, 12 pp. text. Vol. 2: 760 b/w plates. 2 vols. 27x20 cm. Paper. £40.00A comprehensive history of the subject, with hundreds of well-chosen black-and-white illustrations. A good visual reference. In Chi-nese.

659 Wang, Hsin-pei adapted; drawings by Chao Hung-pen and Chien Hsiao-tai: MONKEY SUBDUES THE WHITE-BONE DEMON. 孫悟空三打白骨精。王星北改編；趙宏本、錢笑呆繪. Peking, 1973. 110 pp. B/willustrations throughout. 25x188 cm. Paper. £10.00Line-drawn traditional comic version of the famous story. Wonderful draughtsmanship.

660 Warner, Langdon: THE CRAFT OF THE JAPANESE SCULPTOR. New York, 1936. (viii), 55 pp. text and 85plates. 28x21 cm. Cloth. £20.00An illustrated history of Japanese sculpture to the end of the Edo period. Includes short descriptions of the sculpture of each periodand a valuable chapter on the techniques of the sculptor. Silberman 739.

661 Watson, P. trans: GRAND CANAL, GREAT RIVER. The Travel Diary of a Twelfth-Century Chinese Poet.London, 2007. 255 pp. Numerous colour and b/w illustrations. 24x16 cm. Cloth. £20.00Between July and December 1170 A.D, the Chinese poet, Lu You, travelled from near modern-day Shanghai up the Yangtze river totake up an administrative post in Sichuan province. This is a readable and fascinating account of his six month journey with numer-ous illustrations, including places visited. Translated and with a commentary by Philip Watson.

662 Watson, William: ANCIENT CHINESE BRONZES. Rutland, 1962. 117 pp. 107 plates, 3 in colour; 13 text-figures. Notes, brief bibliography. 25x16 cm. Cloth, dustjacket. £35.00An account of the bronzes from the earliest times to the Han period, and especially of the ritual bronze vessels from the earliest phases.A very good introduction to the subject.


663 Watson, William: THE ARTS OF CHINA: TO AD 900; 900-1620; AFTER 1620. Pelican History of Art. London,2000-07. viii, 274 pp. 301 plates, chiefly colour. Bibliography, glossary index. 3 vols. 29x22 cm. Cloth and paper.

£50.00Three-volume set of late Professor Watson’s major three-volume series, surveying China’s immense wealth of art, architecture, and arte-facts in all media. The first two volumes in hardback, the third in paperback. An excellent survey.

664 Watt, James C. Y. et al: CHINA: DAWN OF A GOLDEN AGE (200-750 AD). NewHaven, 2004. xxiv, 392 pp. c. 300 colour illustrations. B/w illustrations. 31x23 cm.Cloth. £25.00Catalogue of an important exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, the first com-prehensive survey of Chinese art during this complex period. Lavishly illustrated and produced, thevolume presents more than three hundred recent archaeological finds. Includes gold artefacts madeby the nomadic peoples from Mongolia, luxury articles of glass and precious metals from Westernand Central Asia, early Chinese Buddhist sculptures and spectacular works in every medium fromthe Tang period. Essays by distinguished scholars provide a historical background, discuss the var-ious media and trace the changes in art styles over a period that saw a radical modification of Chi-nese civilisation.

665 Wechsler, Howard J: OFFERINGS OF JADE AND SILK. Ritual and Symbol in theLegitimation of the T’ang Dynasty. New Haven, 1985. xiv, 313 pp. Notes,bibliography, glossary and index. 24x17 cm. Cloth. £25.00After their conquest of the Chinese empire in A.D. 618, the rulers of the great Tang dynasty sought to legitimise their authority. Thisbook investigates various state rituals and political symbols employed to do so.

666 Wei Chu-hsien: CHINA AND AMERICA. A Study of Ancient Communication between the Two Lands. HongKong, 1970-71. 95 ; 103 pp. Chinese text. English introduction. Numerous b/w text illustrations. 2 vols. 26x19 cm.Paper. £30.00Volume 1 : ‘The Discovery of Chinese Inscriptions in America’. Volume 2 : ‘Chinese Decorative Motifs Found in America’.

667 Wei Yuejin: SONGDAI TAO MO. (Song Dynasty Moulded Pottery ). 宋代陶模。魏躍進著. Kaifeng, 2010. 2,321 pp. Full page colour plates throughout. 28x21 cm. Wrappers. £60.00Interesting and well-illustrated survey of a little-known aspect of Song dynasty ceramics — that of moulded pottery. These are smallobjects (some quite fine) made from clay pressed into a mould and then baked. The variety of objects and their size seem to indicatethat such moulded objects were used as charms, talismans and votive offerings by the general populace. A broad selection are here il-lustrated, both the moulded object and, in a good many cases, the mould itself. Illustrated throughout in colour, many of the objectsbeing shown larger than life-size. In Chinese.

668 Welch, Patricia: CHINESE ART. A Guide to Motifs and Visual Imagery. North Clarendon, 2012. 288 pp. Colourillustrations throughout. 29x22 cm. Paper. £24.95Examines the meanings behind the hundreds of motifs and symbols found in Chinese art. Divided into sections: Flowers and Plants;Fruit Vegetables, Kernels and Seeds; Minerals; Real and Imaginary Birds; Insects, Reptiles, Fish and Amphibians; Real and Imagi-nary Animals; Children, Single Male Figures; Groups of Figures; Buddhist Deities and Figures; Female Figures; Borders and OtherRepeated Patterns; Chinese Characters; Colours; Numbers; Religious Images and Symbols; Inanimate Objects. Illustrated in colourthroughout and described in detail.

669 Weldon, David and Jane Casey Singer: THE SCULPTURAL HERITAGE OF TIBET. Buddhist Art in theNyingjei Lam Collection. London, 1999. 224 pp. 115 colour illustrations. 29x24 cm. Cloth. £45.00Outstanding objects from the never-before-published Nyingjei Lam collection, including Tibetan portrait sculpture, Kashmiri andNepalese metal sculpture and rare iconographic and stylistic types from the Himalayan region. Exhibited at the Ashmolean Museum,Oxford.

670 Whitfield, Roderick: THE ART OF CENTRAL ASIA. The Stein Collection in the British Museum. Tokyo, 1982-85. Each volume c.340 pp. 200 colour, 64 b/w illustrations, maps. Bibliography. 3 vols. 38x27 cm. Cloth, boxed.

£4,500.00A deluxe and lavish edition limited to 550 copies. Illustrates the unparalleled collection of Central Asian objects assembled by AurelStein on his expeditions along the Silk Road showing, in particular, his stunning finds of Buddhist scrolls, sutras and silk paintings fromthe hidden library at Dunhuang.Volume 1 covers the earliest paintings in the collection through to, and including many paintings from, the Tang dynasty.Volume 2 continues the coverage of the Tang dynasty and also includes Five Dynasties and Northern Song paintings.Volume 3 is devoted to textiles, sculpture and other arts from Dunhuang. This series represents the first time that the collection has been published since Stein’s original archaeological reports of the early twen-tieth century. Due to the fragility of the objects, it is unlikely they will ever be reproduced again in such a comprehensive manner.The quality of the colour plates shows all objects in unsurpassed clarity and detail and the volumes include many hitherto unpublishedphotographs of enlarged details and entire works.

671 Whitfield, Roderick and Farrer, Anne: CAVES OF THE THOUSAND BUDDHAS. Chinese Art from the SilkRoute. London, 1990. 208 pp. 210 illustrations, 150 in colour. Maps, bibliography, index. 28x22 cm. Cloth.

£45.00Published to accompany an exhibition at the British Museum. Describes and illustrates some of the beautiful images on silk and paperdating from Tang and the Five Dynasties, which were found in the caves near Dunhuang in 1900. and were brought back by Aurel Steinin 1909.


672 Whitfield, Roderick and Wang Tao trans. & ed: EXPLORING CHINA’S PAST. New Discoveries and Studies inArchaeology and Art. London, 2000. 286 pp. Over 170 illustrations. Maps, tables. 29x21 cm. Paper. £10.00An authoritative overview of recent developments in Chinese archaeology, especially as it concerns art history and connoisseurship.The editors have selected and translated contributions by leading scholars, and then composed them into a coherent whole. The cho-sen essays cover the principal themes of current archaeological debate and practice in China, and review many of the important ar-chaeological discoveries of the last decade of the 20th century, including all fifty of the sites officially designated as of nationalimportance.

673 Whitfield, Susan: AUREL STEIN ON THE SILK ROAD. London, 2004. 144 pp. 70 colour and 30 b/willustrations. 24x24 cm. Cloth. £20.00An accessible account of the intrepid adventures of this famous Silk Road explorer and archaeologist. With numerous colour illustra-tions of Buddhist masterpieces and historical photography.

674 Wilkinson, H. P: THE FAMILY IN CLASSICAL CHINA. Shanghai, 1926. ii, 239 pp. Index. 22x15 cm. Cloth,worn and faded. £20.00A sociological study of the family system of China, with discussions devoted to social origins, prehistoric evidence of matrilineage, thetaboo against marriage with people of the same surname, etc.

675 Wirgin, Jan ed: BULLETIN OF THE MUSEUM OF FAR EASTERN ANTIQUITIES, NO. 67. Stockholm,1996. 27x19 cm. Paper. £20.00

676 Wong, Jon: GLOBAL TRADE IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY. The House of Houqua and the CantonSystem. Cambridge, 2016. xi, 247 pp. 23x16 cm. Cloth. £64.99Examines the Canton trade network through the lens of the prominent Chinese merchant, Houqua, whose trading network stretchedfrom China to India, America and Britain. Houqua’s success is instructive as it was at a time when Chinese merchants were oftenviewed as being victims of western mercantile power.

677 Wood, Nigel: CHINESE GLAZES. London, 1998. 272 pp. 150 colour and 100 b/willustrations. 28x22 cm. Cloth. £35.00Traces the development of glazes from the earliest times to the present day. With descriptions of glazeproduction, analyses etc. Well-illustrated with both old ceramics and current wares employing theold glaze techniques.

678 Wrigglesworth, Linda: CREATIVE MOMENTUM. Celebrating 25 years.... London,1996. 2, 70 pp. on 36 loose leaves with colour illustrations 22x15 cm. Loose in folder.

£40.00Dealer’s exhibition catalogue showing Chinese robes and textiles with imperial dragon insignia (50of the pages) together with contemporary artwork by Tashi Mannox (20 leaves). The fine robes andtextiles from the Qing dynasty — all illustrated and described.

679 Wu Ch’eng-en: MONKEY. London, 1965. 305 pp. 22x15 cm. Cloth. £40.00Arthur Waley’s able translation of the travels of Tripitaka based on Xuan Zang’s journey to India tocollect Buddhist tracts. Seventh impression. Wonderful dustjacket with design of a monkey by Dun-can Grant, with slight loss to jacket.

680 Wu Hung ed: CHINESE ART AT THE CROSSROADS. Between Past & Future, Between East and West. 2002.337 pp. 199 plates. 22x16 cm. Paper. £20.00Comprised primarily of the contents on the online arts magazine, Chinese-art.com, and includes images, essays and interviews pub-lished on the web in 2000. A broad-ranging view of contemporary Chinese art.

681 Wu Min: HUIZHOU ZHU DIAO YISHU. Art of Bamboo Carving of Huizhou District. 徽州竹雕藝術. Hefei,1994. 14 pp. Chinese text. 87 plates, mostly in colour. 25x26 cm. Cloth. £25.00Examples of carving from the Ming and Qing dynasties. Introduction in Chinese and English, but plate captions in Chinese only. Thephotographs are a bit blurred.

682 Wu Shuicun: JIUJIANG CHUTU TONGJING. (Bronze Mirrors Unearthed at Jiujiang). 就將出土銅鏡。吳水存編. Beijing, 1993. 136 pp. 4 colour and 141 b/w plates. 26x19 cm. Paper. £20.00A wide range of bronze mirrors excavated from the region in northern Jiangxi, the earliest dating from the middle part of the WesternHan dynasty and the latest example from the Qing.

683 Wu, G. D: PREHISTORIC POTTERY IN CHINA. London, 1938. 180 pp. text, 64 pages of b/w illustrations, 2maps. 25x19 cm. Cloth. £45.00Discussion of the various groups, characteristics and classes of pre-Shang pottery in China. A lucid and detailed account.

684 Xianyang Cultural Relics Bureau ed: XIANYANG WENWU JINGCUI. The Cream of Xianyang Relics. 咸陽文物精華. Beijing, 2002. 206 pp. Colour plates throughout. 29x23 cm. Cloth. £20.00A selection of the finest archaeological relics excavated in the Xianyang area outside Xi’an, seat of the Han capital and an importantregion for much of China’s history. The relics are mostly from China’s earlier period pre-Qin to Song and are arranged by category— pottery and ceramics, jade, gold and silver wares etc. The items come from both large and little-known museums and collectionsin the area. Introduction and all captions in English. Main text in Chinese.

685 XINZHENG XIYASI DONGZHOU MUDI. Xiyasi Cemetery of the Eastern Zhou Period in Xinzheng. 新鄭西亞斯東周墓地. Zhengzhou, 2012. vii, 264 pp. text plus 50 pp. colour and 24 pp. b/w plates. Numerous b/w textdrawings and a few b/w text illustrations 27x19 cm. Cloth. £60.00Xinzheng is an ancient city located in China’s Henan province. The excavation of this Eastern Zhou cemetery yielded 5000 artefactsin various materials — from jade and crystal to pottery and small bronzes. A large selection of the best and most interesting objectsare illustrated. Two page English abstract in English. Main text in Chinese.


686 MIANJU YISHU. Masks. 面具藝術. Xizang Minjian Yishu Congshu. Chongqing, 2001. 7, 143 pp. Full pagecolour plates throughout. 28x21 cm. Paper. £25.00Part of an eight volume series on Tibetan folk art, this volume depicts fine and fearsome masks as used in Tibetan rituals and cere-monies. Good colour illustrations. In Chinese.

687 Xu Bingyan; Xu Bingkun ed: XU BINGYAN ZHU MU DIAOKE. (The Wood and Bamboo Carving of XuBingyan). 徐秉言竹木雕刻。徐秉言；徐秉坤編著. Shanghai, 2007. 143 pp. Colour plates throughout. 29x22cm. Boards. £20.00Fine traditional, chiefly figurative wood and bamboo shallow intaglio carving by an acknowledged contemporary master. In Chinese.

688 Xu Gang ed: SHIER SHENGXIAO. Chinese Zodiac Signs. 十二生肖。徐剛編著. Hefei, 2013. 136 pp. Colourtext illustrations throughout. 21x17 cm. Wrappers. £20.00A very interesting and readable account on the famous twelve animals that represent the years of the Chinese zodiac. Dual texts in Chi-nese and English.

689 Xu Huadang ed: ZHONGGUO GU MINJU MUDIAO. Wood Carving of Ancient Chinese Folk Houses. 中國古民居木雕。徐華鐺編著. Beijing, 2007. 215 pp. Colour photographs throughout. 29x22 cm. Boards. £45.00Illustrates in colour hundreds of examples of the intricate wooden carving found on vernacular architecture throughout China. A use-ful amount of English text. Main text in Chinese.

690 Xu Huadang ed: ZHONGGUO ZHUKE ZHUDIAO YISHU. The Bamboo Carving Art in China. 中國竹刻竹雕藝術。徐華鐺主編. Beijing, 2007. 191 pp. Colour plates throughout. 28x22 cm. Boards. £40.00Good work describing and illustrating the various types of bamboo carving and crafts. Whilst a number of the pieces shown are old(Ming and Qing), the majority of the pieces are modern. Includes such techniques as bamboo relief carving and the very fine craft of‘liuqing’ carving. Discusses modern carvers. Sections of English text throughout. Main text in Chinese.

691 Xu Jianrong: PUSA ZAOXIANG. (Images of Bodhisattvas). 菩薩造像。徐建融編著. Shanghai, 1998. 334pp. B/w photographs throughout. 26x19 cm. Paper. £20.00Images of Bodhisattvas in sculptures, murals, bronzes and painted statuary dating from the Northern Wei to the Qing dynasties. Goodblack and white illustrations. A useful survey. In Chinese only.

692 Xu Yinchi et al. ed: ZHONGGUO KEXUEYUAN TUSHUGUAN ZHENCANG WENXIAN TULU. ThePictorial Catalogue of Special Collections of Library of Chinese Academy of Sciences. 中國科學院圖書館珍藏文獻圖錄。徐引篪主編. Beijing, 2002. 13, 145 pp. 254 colour plates. 29x20 cm. Wrappers. £65.00Captioned pictures of title-page spreads and contextual shots showing bindings, etc. of selected items from the Academy’s collectionof rarities, dominated by the western scientific treatises and journals that were presumably acquired in the 19th century. With a num-ber of Chinese scientific and technical works and a small section of Chinese ‘shanben’, fine editions. Western items listed and captionedin the original language, otherwise in Chinese.

693 Yamato Bunkakan: PAINTINGS OF FUGEN BOSATSU (THE SAMANTBHADRA BODHISATTVA) —PRAYING TO BEAUTIFUL BUDDHAS. 普賢菩撒薩的繪畫. Osaka, 2004. 123 pp. 65 pp. colour plates. 30x21cm. Paper. £40.00Catalogue of an exhibition that shows a wonderful selection of paintings, scrolls metalwork and objects in other media which depictFugen Bosatsu. Loans from museums, temples and private collections. All 48 exhibits are illustrated in colour, many in multiple plates.In Japanese.

694 Yang Boxian ed: FAHAISI BIHUA. The Fahai Temple Frescoes. 法海寺壁畫。楊博賢主編. Beijing, 2001. 80pp. Colour plates throughout. 29x21 cm. Paper. £20.00Here are the fine and subtle Ming dynasty murals at Fahai Temple situated 20 kilometres west of Beijing. The murals show Sakyamuni,Indra and 20 other Devas. Of comparable importance to the murals at Yongle Gong. Text in Chinese, Japanese and English.

695 Yang Shuda: NAILIN QING JIAWEN SHUO, BUCI QIUYI. (Nailin Qing Description of Oracle Bones, Meaningof Divinatory Writing). Shanghai, 1954. 168 pp. 25x19 cm. Stitched. £35.00Two brief but excellent works on the decipherment of oracle inscription characters. 500 copies printed.Two copies available. Slightly water-damaged — but without affecting the text, hence bargain price.

696 Yang Xin, Li Yihua and Xu Naixiang: ART OF THE DRAGON. London, 1989. 215 pp. 183 colour plates. 29x23cm. Cloth. £20.00A pictorial and chronological history of the dragon in Chinese art and symbolism, illustrated by sculpture, furniture, ceramics, swords,etc.

697 Yang Yongshan and Yang Jingrong: MINJIAN TAOCI. Art of Folk Ceramics. 民間陶瓷。楊永善楊靜榮.Beauty of Ceramics, 2. Taibei, 1993. 180 pp. 180 colour plates. 28x22 cm. Cloth. £25.00With the same extremely high production standards as other volumes in this series and from this publisher, this books presents a care-ful selection of representative pieces of popular Chinese ceramic art. English text throughout.

698 Yetts, W. Perceval & Hopkins, Lionel C: A CHINESE BRONZE RITUAL VESSEL. N.p, 1933. pp. 107-113. plus2 pp/ b/w plates. 22x14 cm. Paper. £10.00Discusses a jue (chueh) or ritual wine vessel in the collection of Captain E. G. Spencer-Churchill.

699 Yokogawa Collection: TOYO KO TOJI. Illustrated Catalogue of Old Oriental Ceramics Donated by Mr Yokogawa.Tokyo, 1953. 18 pp. text. 412 b/w illustrations, 2 coloured. 26x18 cm. Paper. £30.00Tokyo National Museum exhibition catalogue of a most important collection of Chinese ceramics, ranging from the Han to Qing pe-riods. Captions in English. Main text in Japanese.


700 Yoshikawa Kojiro; trans. Timothy Wixted: FIVE HUNDRED YEARS OF CHINESE POETRY, 1150-1650. TheChin, Yuan and Ming Dynasties. Princeton Library of Asian Translations. Princeton, 1989. 245 pp. 1 photograph.23x15 cm. Cloth. £15.00An excellent translation of one of the most important works of traditional-style criticism of the subject, by the doyen of Chinese stud-ies in Japan.

701 Yu Jiming: ZHONGGUO TONGLU TUJIAN. An Illustrated Handbook of Chinese Bronze Stoves (IncenseBurners). 中國銅爐圖鑒。余繼明編著. Zhongguo Shoucang Jianshang Congshu. Hangzhou, 2001. 135 pp.Colour plates throughout. 21x14 cm. Paper. £17.00A well-illustrated survey of the highly-collectable Chinese incense burners and hand warmers, the vast majority dating from the Qingdynasty but with a few earlier pieces. Includes a good number of Qing copies of the Xuande-style burners. Text in Chinese.

702 Yu Jiming: ZHONGGUO TONGXIANG TUJIAN. An Illustrated Handbook of Chinese Bronze Statues. 中國銅像圖鑒。余繼明編著. Zhongguo Shoucang Jianshang Congshu. Hangzhou, 2001. 127 pp. Colour platesthroughout. 21x14 cm. Paper. £17.00A well-illustrated survey of Chinese gilt-bronze statues dating from the Shang to the Qing dynasties. Text in Chinese.

703 Yu Jiming: ZHONGGUO ZHU MU YA DIAO TUJIAN. An Illustrated Handbook of Chinese Folk Sculptures.中國竹木牙雕圖鑒。余繼明編著. Zhongguo Shoucang Jianshang Congshu. Hangzhou, 2001. 167 pp. Colourplates throughout. 21x15 cm. Paper. £15.00illustrates mostly Ming and Qing dynasty sculptures and carvings in bamboo, wood and ivory. Good illustrations. Text in Chinese.

704 Yu Jiming: ZHONGGUO ZISHAHU TUJIAN. (An Illustrated Compendium of Zisha Teapots). 中國紫砂壺圖鑒。余繼明編著. Zhongguo Shoucang Jianshang Congshu. Hangzhou, 2001. 167 pp. Colour photographsthroughout. 20x14 cm. Paper. £20.00Predominantly late Ming and Qing yixing teapots are here illustrated and described. The numerous teapots shown have all appearedin auction in recent years as auction estimates are given. Base marks and signatures are also illustrated. In Chinese.

705 Yu Jiming ed: ZHONGGUO QINGCI TUJIAN. (An Illustrated Handbook of Chinese Celadons). 中國青瓷圖錄。余繼明編著. Zhongguo Shoucang Jianshang Congshu. Hangzhou, 2000. 152 pp. colour illustrationsthroughout. 20x14 cm. Paper. £16.00Numerous celadons from the Eastern Han to the present day (the focus being on the earlier material) are illustrated and described.Estimates of values are given. In Chinese.

706 ZAO RUI GONG QIAO: ZHONGGUO GUDAI JIAJU YISHU ZHAN. The Art of Woodworking — AnExhibition of Chinese Antique Furniture. 鑿枘工巧：中國古代家具藝術展. N.p., 2010. 156 pp. Numerous fullpage colour plates. 27x21 cm. Wrappers. £60.00Catalogue of what appears to have been a 2010 travelling exhibition of Chinese furniture dating from the 16th to 18th centuries. Themajority of the pieces are unrestored. A total of 63 exhibits are illustrated ranging from wash stands and cupboards to tables andchests. The pieces come from private collections in China. Text in Chinese.

707 ZAO RUI GONG QIAO: ZHONGGUO GU WOJU. The Art of Classical Chinese Beds. 鑿枘工巧：中國古臥具. Beijing, 2010. 191 pp. Numerous full page colour plates. 30x23 cm. Wrappers. £60.00Catalogue of what seems to have been a 2010 travelling exhibition of Chinese wooden beds dating from the 10th (!) to 19th centuries.Organized in conjunction with a similar travelling exhibition of Chinese furniture. A number of the pieces are unrestored. A total of34 exhibits are illustrated. The pieces come from private collections in China. Text in Chinese.

708 Zhang Hongxing ed: THE QIANLONG EMPEROR. Treasures from the ForbiddenCity. Edinburgh, 2002. 192 pp. 200 colour illustrations throughout. Bibliography,index. 28x23 cm. Paper. £30.00Well-illustrated and well-written catalogue, published to accompany an exhibition at the NationalMuseum of Scotland in Edinburgh focusing on the life and interests of the Qianlong emperor andhighlighting objects from the Forbidden City, two thirds of which have never been seen outside ofChina. Recommended. Now out-of-print.

709 Zhang Pengchuan ed: ZHONGGUO HANDAI MUDIAO YISHU. (WoodenCarvings of the Han Dynasty). 中國漢代木雕藝術。張朋川主編. Shenyang, 2003.12 pp. text plus 98 pp. colour plates. 23x17 cm. Paper. £18.00Handy little work that surveys Han dynasty excavated tomb figurines carved from wood — and insome cases lacquered. The numerous colour illustrations show human figurines, animals and birds.In Chinese.

710 Zhang Rong et al: CHUN SHUI QIU YING: GUGONG BOWUYAN CANG QINGDAI BOLIQI. (Spring Rainand Autumn Flowers: Qing Dynasty Glass in the Collection of the Gugong Museum). 春水秋英：故宮博物院藏清代清代玻璃器。張榮等著. Beijing, 2009. 258 pp. Colour illustrations. 21x14 cm. Paper. £20.00Well-illustrated selection of Qing dynasty glass held in the collection of the Gugong Museum in Beijing. In Chinese.

711 Zhang Yiguo: CHUN RONG SHI HUI: MEIGUO ZHEN CANG ZHONGGUO SHUHUA. Ten Spring FlowersBlooming; An American Collection of Chinese Paintings and Calligraphy. 春榮十卉：美國珍藏中國書畫。張以國著編. Shijiazhuang, 2012. 287 pp. Numerous full page colour plates. 31x24 cm. Cloth, slipcase. £80.00Catalogue of an American collection of Ming, Qing and 20th century Chinese painting and calligraphy which has been formed overthe last 20 years. All illustrated in colour and well-described. Dual text in English and Chinese.



712 Zhang Ying: JILIN CHUTU TONGJING. (Bronze Mirrors Excavated in Jilin). 吉林出土銅鏡. Beijing, 1990. 186pp. 1 colour plate, 148 b/w illustrations. 26x19 cm. Paper. £30.00Covering the periods from Warring States to Ming, but with emphasis on the Jin period. Most of the mirrors are reproduced by rub-bings.

713 Zhang Zhaoxiang: BAIHUASHI JIANPU. (The ‘One Hundred Flower Poems’ Letter Papers). 文美齋百華詩箋譜。張兆祥繪. Beijing, 2012. 53; 51 folded leaves, Chinese-style. reproductions of colour woodcuts throughout.2 vols. 30x19 cm. Stitched, in a brocade case. £180.00Excellent facsimile of an edition of decorative ‘letter papers’ first issued in 1911. Beautiful illustrations from designs by Zhang Zhaox-iang. All text in Chinese.See: Visible Traces: Item 23, pp. 97-100. Zhongguo Meishu Quanji: Huihua Bian 20: Banhua: Item 210, p. 218 and p. 76.

714 Zhejiang Archaeological research Bureau ed: LEIFENG YIZHEN. Treasures from the Leifeng Pagoda. 雷峰遺珍. Beijing, 2002. 201 pp. Colour plates and illustrations throughout. 29x22 cm. Boards. £45.00Fascinating and wonderful excavation report of the Leifeng pagoda site at Hangzhou, dating from the Five Dynasties and which col-lapsed in 1924. The report focuses on the excavation and finds in the underground crypt of the temple which yielded some quite su-perb objects, including a stunning and highly-important silver and silver-gilt reliquary, a superb gilt Buddha supported on a dragonpillar, silver and gold objects, jades and bronze mirrors. In addition the report examines the architecture and construction of thepagoda. Excellent and detailed colour plates. List of contents and three page abstract in English. Main text in Chinese.

715 Zhejiang Provincial Museum ed: JIXIANG RUYI: ZHEJIANG SHAOXING HANYUE TANG CANG GUDAIYISHUPIN JINGCUI. Good Luck and Auspiciousness: Gems of Ancient Art Works Collected by Shaoxing Hallof Hanyue, Zhejiang. 吉祥如意：浙江紹興韓越堂藏古代藝術品精粹. Beijing, 2013. 291 pp. Numerous colourplates throughout. 31x24 cm. Cloth. £80.00Catalogue of an exhibition at the Gushan branch of the Zhejiang Provincial Museum showing highlights from the privately-heldHanyue Tang collection. The collection focuses on fine Chinese works of art in various media which have auspicious emblems or as-sociations. Includes ceramics, jade, carvings and cloisonné. Illustrated throughout in colour. Dual texts in English and Chinese.

716 Zhenjiang Museum ed: ZHENJIANG CHUTU JINYINQI. (Gold and Silver Excavated in the Zhenjiang Area).鎮江出土金銀器。鎮江博物館編著. Beijing, 2012. 6, 173 pp. Colour plates throughout. B/w text drawings.29x22 cm. Boards. £50.00Shows 203 fine and varied Chinese gold and silver objects dating from the Han through to the Qing excavated in and around the cityof Zhenjiang in China’s Hubei province. The majority of the material is pre-Ming and includes a good selection of Tang and Song ma-terial. All objects held in the collection of Zhenjiang Museum. All illustrated in colour and described. Text in Chinese.

717 ZHONGGUO TAOCI QUANJI 1: XINSHIQI SHIDAI. (Compendium of Chinese Ceramics 1: The NeolithicPeriod). 中國陶瓷全集一：新石器時代. Zhongguo Meishu Fenlei Quanji. Shanghai, 2000. 331 pp. 253 colourplates and 253 b/w illustrations. 29x22 cm. Cloth. £55.00Volume 1 of a 15 volume high quality series on Chinese ceramics, this volume covers the Neolithic period. In Chinese only. Shows 253objects, primarily painted pottery from various cultures — Dawenkou, Majiayao, Liangzhu etc. Objects held at various museums andinstitutions in mainland China. Excellent colour plates. Each object with brief but comprehensive description. In Chinese only.

718 Zhou Shaoliang et al: TANGDAI MUZHI HUIBIAN. (A Compendium of Tang Period Funerary Inscriptions). 唐代墓誌彙編。周紹良等主編. Beijing, 2007. 129, 1-1300; 1301-2574, 187 pp. Index. 2 vols. 30x22 cm. Cloth. £55.00Monumental compendium of transcriptions from funerary epigraphy, one of the most important primary sources of historical, espe-cially biographic, information. The inscriptions were are also often highly regarded for the aesthetics of their calligraphy. Four-cor-ner system name index. In Chinese. Second edition.

719 Zhou Shirong: CHANGJIANG QI WENHUA. (The Lacquer Culture of the Yangtze River). 長江漆文化。周世榮著. Wuhan, 2005. 6, 4, 343 pp. 6 pp. colour plates. A number of b/w text illus. 21x15 cm. Wrappers. £25.00A detailed study of ancient lacquers excavated from sites along the Yangtze river in China. In Chinese. Out-of-print.

720 Zhu Jun et al: HE HUANG CANG ZHEN: LISHI WENWU JUAN. (Treasures of the Huang River: HistoricalArtefacts). 河湟藏珍：歷史文物卷. Beijing, 2012. 261 pp. Colour plates (many full page) throughout. 29x22 cm.Boards. £70.00Well-illustrated survey of artefacts held in the collections of the Qinghai Provincial Museum and the Qinghai Minorities Museum. Pri-marily pottery, ceramics and bronzes. The objects date from the Neolithic through to the Qing dynasty. Includes much material little,if ever, previously published. Colour plates throughout. Text in Chinese.

721 Zhu Tianshu: LIAODAI JINYIN QI. (Gold and Silver of the Liao Period). 遼代金銀器：朱天舒著. Beijing,1998. 5, 209 pp. 30 b/w text figures and 160 b/w line drawings with detailed captions. Chronological diagrammatictables, notes. 26x18 cm. Paper. £35.00Detailed, scholarly study of the forms, dating, decoration, etc. of the gold and silver metalwork of the Liao period. In Chinese only.Out-of-print.

722 Zhu Zhangchao: TANG YONGTAI GONGZHU MU BIHUA JI. (Wall Paintings From the Tomb of PrincessYongtai of Tang Period). Beijing, 1963. 7 pp. text, 21 plates, 6 in colour. 53x40 cm. Loose in paper portfolio.

£45.00A brief description of the wall paintings discovered in 1961 in the tomb of the Princess Yongtai giving help to clarify their general dis-position, which is not evident in their damaged state and few photographs published. RBS 9:411.

SUBJECT INDEX – 60 – HANSHAN TANG BOOKS

SUBJECT INDEX

Aesthetics 593Animals in art 372Anthropology 292, 432Archaeology 1, 7, 252, 255, 270, 315,

333, 338, 345, 350, 368, 390, 400-2,424, 445, 454, 479, 503, 511, 517, 523,547, 554, 566, 581-2, 585, 597, 642,644, 656, 664, 666, 672, 684-5, 709,714, 716, 720

Architecture 394, 478, 539, 570, 609,611, 643, 689

Armour and Weapons 438, 441, 522, 580,627, 641

Artists’ Books 459Bamboo 617, 654, 681, 687, 690Beijing 263, 276, 543, 643Bibliography 456, 461, 485, 692Biography 318Boxer Rebellion 288Bronzes 2, 268, 282, 290, 293-4, 319,

326, 328, 330, 363, 412, 443, 460, 468,484, 492, 500, 504, 509-10, 530, 569,586, 619-20, 622, 645, 652, 662, 682,698, 701-2, 712

Buddhism 6, 279, 433Buddhist Art 47, 290, 335, 356, 389, 392,

415, 431, 433, 435, 466, 476, 478-9,496, 527, 531, 533-4, 583, 605, 612

Calligraphy 14, 19, 25, 53, 57, 67, 79, 93,95, 120, 127, 133-4, 142, 152-3, 158,160, 173, 179, 188, 206, 210, 212, 216,225, 227-8, 230, 237, 242, 247, 297,419, 429, 485, 588, 593, 655, 711

Carvings 286, 310, 358, 362, 365, 452,617, 646, 687, 689-90, 703, 709

Ceramics 8, 171, 258-9, 272, 278, 281,298-300, 302, 316, 320, 324, 349-50,353, 357, 364, 374, 387, 396, 405, 409-10, 414, 418, 421, 423, 425, 439-40,444, 469, 473, 481-2, 495, 498-9, 505-8, 515-6, 528, 532, 559, 574, 577-8,584, 599, 610, 632, 638, 651, 667, 677,683, 697, 699, 704-5, 717

Clocks 537Connoisseurship 203, 518Contemporary Art 89, 247, 296, 618, 680Court Life 5, 514, 650Daoism 264, 367, 429, 447Design 480, 525, 552Dictionaries 208Dunhuang 47, 344, 657, 670-1Encyclopaedias 262Export art 302Fans 41, 162, 210, 218, 218, 220, 220Fiction 494, 494, 659Figurines 505Folk Art 358, 649, 686Folk Customs 457Forbidden City 5, 263, 309, 360, 650, 708Foreigners in Asia 323, 428, 560, 562,

568, 676Furniture 321, 332, 336, 451, 551-2, 706-

7Gardens 449, 525, 549, 591Geography 322Glass 3, 13, 529, 710Glazes 651Gold 1, 287, 585, 642, 716, 721Handscrolls 240-1Himalayas 472History 265-7, 285, 325, 369, 386, 470,

526, 560, 573, 575, 604, 665, 675, 715Iconography 466Illustrated Books 381, 567, 634India 491, 536Ink Painting 26Inscriptions 718Islamic Art 27Ivory 362, 434Jade 375-6, 388, 411, 420, 471, 503, 576,

608Jewelry and Silver 721Lacquer 308, 346-7, 455, 462, 719Landscape 24, 91, 114, 124, 126, 155,

157, 161, 170, 172, 178, 199, 209, 233Literature 11, 78, 450, 494, 595, 640, 679,

700Maps and Atlases 317, 391, 458, 502Maritime 345Marks 63Masks 686Metalwork 12, 436, 641, 701-2Minorities 523, 596Mirrors 294, 294, 443, 460, 460, 500,

500, 504, 510, 510, 586, 619, 619, 645,652, 652, 682, 682, 712, 712

Missionaries 417Mountains 91Murals 235, 268, 581, 694, 722Myths and Legends 688New Year Prints 572Numismatics 406Oracle Bones 695Painting 4, 13, 15-7, 20-4, 26-46, 48-51,

54-62, 64-6, 68-77, 80-94, 96-109, 111-8, 121-4, 126-33, 135-41, 143-7, 149-51, 154-7, 159, 161-70, 172, 174-87,189-205, 207-9, 211, 213-5, 217-27,229-36, 238-41, 243-6, 248, 297, 303-4, 312, 340, 361, 416, 448, 452, 463,507, 512, 589-90, 598, 613, 626, 693-4,711, 722

Paper and Printing 39Philosophy 264, 430, 550, 556, 639Photography 322, 403, 628Poetry 49, 78, 108, 119, 274, 291, 548Politics 359Portrait 121, 128Printing 4, 39, 341, 513, 600, 636

Rare Books 379, 502, 513, 519, 587Reference 208, 426, 456, 461, 718Religion 264, 279, 433, 447, 535, 648,

653, 691, 693Rivers and Canals 541Scholar’s Studio 63, 125, 305-6, 313, 373,

463, 542, 587, 620-1, 654Science 521, 563-5Sculpture 7, 257, 260, 299, 319, 327, 329,

331, 337, 339, 360, 363, 380, 389, 397,399-400, 415, 422, 435, 465, 493, 496,520, 524, 531, 538, 570, 589-90, 592,594, 602, 605, 615, 647, 658, 660, 669,691

Seals 63Sex 284, 385, 640Silk Road 12, 266-7, 344, 390, 501, 671,

673Silk 631Silver 468Snuff Bottles 489Sociology 301, 457, 488, 674Stein, Aurel 673Symbolism and Designs 122, 147, 668,

688Tea 277Textiles 371, 395, 631, 649, 678Theatre 11Tomb Art 278, 289, 539, 582Trade 633, 676Travel 261, 351, 403, 416, 474, 486, 568,

648, 661Ukiyo-e 10, 283-4, 307, 342-3, 381-4,

487, 625, 634Woodcuts 10, 198, 459, 467, 540, 572,

625, 637, 713Wooden Sculpture 327, 397, 422, 465Yixing 357, 387, 418, 440, 528, 599, 704Zen 14, 120