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English text.; Hardcover (with dust jacket); 19.5 x 27 cm (each); 2.3 kg.; Part One with 175 lots and 160 pages; Part Two with lots 202 to 344 and 144 pages; and Part Three with lots 401 to 625 and 184 pages; All volumes with black and white and colour illustrations.; Used with signs of wear on all volumes. Volume 1, has a small red pen mark on the rear of the dust jacket and on the rear of the front cover. Minor yellowing on the top of the outside text block. Remaining interior in good condition with minor signs of wear. Includes the lot estimate loosely inserted with red pen figures near each lot.; Volume 2, has minor signs of wear on the interior and on the dust jacket. The top of the outside text block shows some yellowing. Interior in very good condition. Includes the lot estimate loosely inserted.; Volume 3, show minor signs of wear on the dust jacket and on the interior. Minor yellowing on the top of the outside text block. Includes the lot estimate loosely inserted with blue pen notes near each lot.; PART ONE - Ming and Qing Porcelain, sold by Sotheby Parke Bernet (Hong Kong) Ltd. in Hong Kong, on 25th November, 1980, MING PORCELAIN including A Group of Yongle and Xuande Blue and White ,A Xuande Powder-Blue Dice Bowl with Engraved Dragons, A Chenghua Doucai Stemcup with Birds on Branches, A Chenghua Doucai Chicken Cup and A Chenghua Blue and Yellow Dish; QING PORCELAIN including An Extensive Series of Imperial Monochromes, Enamelled Porcelain and Other Wares; PART TWO - Early Chinese Ceramics and Ancient Bronzes, sold by Sotheby Park Bernet & Co. in London, on 16th December 1980, EARLY CERAMICS including A Jin Yueyao Jar with Applied Figures of Buddha, A Tang Equestrian Figure of An Armenian, Tang Sancai Jars and Xing-Type Porcelain, SONG WARES - Two Dingyao Dishes Carved with Lotus, A Cizhou Pillow in the Form of a Reclining Lady, Two Small Splashed Jun Bowls, A Group of Kuan and Ge Wares and A Series of Longquan Celadon Wares, ANCIENT BRONZES - A Shang Fangding, A Large Jia, a Gu, Two Early Western Zhou You and a Large Ding, A Gui with Plinth and A Gui on Four Legs also A Sixth Century Gilt Bronze Figure of a Bodhisattva; PART THREE - Ming and Qing Porcelain and Works of Art, sold by Sotheby Parke Bernet (Hong Kong) Ltd. in Hong Kong, on 19h May 1981, MING PORCELAIN including A Yongle Blue and White Flask with Dragons, A Group of Fifteenth Century Blue and White, A Chenghua Doucai, Chicken Cup and A Xuande Blue and Yellow Dish, QING PORCELAIN including A Series of Imperial Monochromes Enamelled Porcelain and Other Wares, WORKS OF ART including Enamels, Bronzes, Glass, Ivory and Jade.; "Just as did Mi-fou, the famous Song Dynasty painter, Edward Chow divided his collection into two parts, one for those who were merely curious, and one for the true connoisseurs, those few who were deemed worthy of being asked to share the pleasures of contemplation. Amongst the latter might have been found King Gustav Adolph of Sweden, Sir Percival David, the Rothschilds, Barbara Hutton and Euchi Ataka, to name only these few. Selecting that rarest of objects, a Chenghua 'chicken cup', a small bowl in doucai enamels, decorated with a scene of a hen and her young beside a flowering peony (lot 31), he drew my attention to the differences, almost imperceptible but nonetheless real, between it and other similar pieces of the Kangxi (lot 138) and Yongzheng (lot 139) periods. However, to my surprise, I must admit, his wide ranging tastes did not make him any the less insensitive to the charm of another small bowl, this time of the Daoguang period (lot 168)." excerpt from the foreword by Michel Beurdeley, 1980.
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