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A Tale of Three Cities: London, Shanghai and Hong Kong: Three Centuries of Sino-British Trade in the Decorative Arts - Hardcover
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A beautifully illustrated catalogue of an important loan exhibition, focusing on the China Trade, to be held by Sotheby's in their main galleries between January and February 1997. Illustrating the trading links that have been forged over the centuries between Great Britain and the Far East, particularly in the field of decorative arts, A Tale of Three Cities highlights how trade was originally carried out through a number of Chinese ports until 1700, thereafter almost exclusively through Canton until 1850, then increasingly Shanghai until 1942 and, since the war, Hong Kong. The book brings to life the development of this trade through different types of decorative art.
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- PublisherSothebys Pubns
- Publication date1997
- ISBN 10 0962258830
- ISBN 13 9780962258831
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages340
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A Tale of Three Cities: Canton, Shanghai & Hong Kong - Three Centuries of Sino-British Trade in the Decorative Arts
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Sothebys, London, 1997
ISBN 10: 0962258830
ISBN 13: 9780962258831
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Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. 1st. Dust jacket in clear protector. 371 objects are described and illustrated in color. 272pp 2.58lb 10.8x8.5x0.8in. Seller Inventory # 29046
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A Tale of Three Cities - Canton, Shanghai and Hong Kong: Three Centuries of Sino-British Trade in the Decorative Arts book by David Howard
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice book in great condition. Pages in excellent condition. Gift message from author. Images are beautiful bright and vivid. No notes or highlighting. Repaired tear on back of dustcover. See images. Fantastic book. About the book >.>.> A Tale of Three Cities has borrowed a little more than an adaptation of Dickens' title. He wrote a novel round the historical contrasts between London and Paris in the late 18th Century. This tale tells a more continuous factual story of the three cities of Canton, Shanghai and Hong Kong, which together have been the merchant centres of Chinese trade with the West over more than three centuries. This Exhibition offers, with grateful thanks for the support of NatWest Markets and Sotheby's Institute, an historical summary of one of the great, and at the time most unusual, trade partnerships in the history of commerce, and at the same time suggests a path forward in the more complex world of today. Not for the first time it is the decorative arts which provide the principal way of painting a panorama of the events of the past. That they comprised only between 5% and 10% of the whole trade with China througho. Seller Inventory # Batch-FM449-VG-10138
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