9780894682452

Book Description: National Gallery of Art/Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art/Yale Univ. Press, Washington, D.C., 1999. Soft Cover. Book Condition: New. No Jacket. 584 pgs. "This beautiful book is the catalogue for an exhibition at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., from 19 September 1999 to 2 January 2000 that then travelled to The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco.Covers the period from 5000 BCE to the 10th century CE, presents more than 170 masterpieces in jade, stone, ivory, bone, pottery, bronze, lacquer, bamboo, gold, and silver." Includes essays by Su Bai, Zhang Zhongpei, Zou Heng, Yu Weichao, Xu Pingfang. Frontispiece: Detail, Painted stone standing Buddha with two bodhisattvas. DJ front: Detail, Painted stone standing bodhisattva. DJ back: Detail, Painted marble relief of musicians. Bookseller Inventory # 001224

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Book Description: National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, U.S.A., 1999. Stiff Wrappers. Book Condition: New. First Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. First edition. Oversize stiff-card wraps with flaps, 578 pp. A massive book, designed to accompany the exhibition at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, September 1999-January 2000, then went on to the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston and the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco. An unbelievable collection of Chinese art in jade, stone, ivory, bone, pottery, bronze, lacquer, bamboo, gold, and silver from the period 5000 B.C. to 900 A.D. Heavily illustrated with maps , plans, and photographs, including many full-page color plates. ISBN: 0894682458. Full-page color photographs, notes, bibliography and index. New/mint condition. [b103]. Bookseller Inventory # 007927

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