Julia B Curtis (30 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Clean, sharp corners with shiny decorative boards in as new condition. BP/Japanese Porcelain.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: Not Issued. First Edition. Hardcover, quarto size volume bound in blue-green pictorial boards, no dust-jacket as issued. 136 pages. With chapter contributions by Stephen Little and Mary Ann Rogers. Edited by J. May Lee Barrett. Containing 104 items illustrated with color photograph, each with informative text. First edition. Published as a catalog to accompany the eponymously entitled exhibition held by the China Institute Gallery, February 2 - June 10, 2006. One of the few exhibitions to focus of Chinese porcelain made in Jingdezhen for export to Japan for the period covered herein. A pristine like new copy. As new.…

Condition: Good. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 136 page hardcover exhibition catalog with color photo illustrations. Text by Curtis with contributions from Stephen Little and Mary Ann Rogers. Edited by J. May Lee Barrett. Select Bibliography, Selected Chinese and Japanese Characters chart at rear. Unmarked, tight and clean. …

Condition: Good. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Hardcover. Blue/green and pictorial paper over boards. 135 pp. Approx 110 color plates and figures. Accompanied an exhibition at the China Institute Gallery. 104 works featured. Includes three essays and extensive annotations for each piece. VG-. Shelf wear to covers. One copy has owner's sticker on ffep, otherwise clean and tight.…

hardcover. Condition: fine. First. 104 color illustrations. 136 pages, slim 4to, pictorial blue boards. New York: China Institute, 2006. First Edition. Fine.

Hard cover. 135 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade. Very good. Light cover wear. Pages appear clean and unmarked.

paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Used - Very Good.

paperback. Condition: near fine. First. With essays by Qianshen Bai, Yibin Ni, Evelyn S. Rawski. 251 pages. 4to, stiff, pictorial wrappers. Alexandria: Art Service International, 2002. Ownership signature else a near fine copy.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Oversized soft cover book (251 pages) beautifully illustrated in color and b/w. Covers show light rubbing/scuffing. INTERNATIONAL SHIPPING MAY REQUIRE ADDITIONAL CHARGE. Bookseller since 1995 (ULG3-TS-L) rareviewbooks.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Surface wear, light discoloration to wraps. Mild wear to spine tips, chip to top front joint. Light corner rubs. Internally clean and unmarked. Shelf 7b.

Hardcover with dustjacket, 136 pages; new condition; still in shrinkwrap; clean and crisp. Foreign shipping may be extra for this book.

New York, China Institute Gallery.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. 251 pages. Large 4to. Fine copy of this catalogue for the exhibition "Treasures from an Unknown Reign: Shunzhi Porcelain, 1644-1661" held at the Honolulu Academy of Arts. Original red cloth boards with gilt lettering on front and spine. There is no dust jacket. Inscribed on full title page. …

hardcover. Condition: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title.

Softbound. Condition: Near fine. First Edition. Catalogue of an exhibition of 65 ceramic objects and related paintings and woodblock prints, on loan from major private collections and held at the China Institute Gallery in 1995. In the 17th century, during the fall of the Ming and the rise of the Qing Dynasty, patronage of the kilns at Jingdezhen shifted from the Imperial court to the scholar-official and merchant classes; thus decoration on the kiln porcelain production reflected, for awhile, the tastes of this elite group. At the end of the century, the Manchu court again resumed Imperial patronage and Jingdezhen reverted back to the use of motifs favoured by the court. The present exhibition examines the unique products of this interim period. Text in English with Chinese summary. Tape residue marks on FEPs from former bookshop protective cover; otherwise as new. 168 pp., fully illustrated in col. and b&w photos, bibliography. Size: 28 x 21 cm.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. English text; Hardcover (without dust jacket); 22.5 x 29 cm; 1 kg; 135 pages with colour illustrations.; Used with signs of wear on the exterior, namely minor edge wear, scuffs and scracthes. Interior as new. Very good condition overall.; Catalogue from the exhibition Trade Taste and Transformation: Jingdezhen Porcelain for Japan, 1620-1645, held at China Institute Gallery, New York from February 2-June 10, 2006.; "It gives us great pleasure to open this special year with the spring exhibition Trade Taste and Transformation: Jingdezhen Porcelain for Japan, 1620-1645, which presents a special moment in Chinese trade history. These export ceramics tell us more than we expect about two different cultures and leave us with a new level of appreciation for the role of commerce in the transformation of mundane objects. In the declining decades of the Ming dynasty, the Japanese market provided much needed revenue for the kilns at Jingdezhen. The Chinese potters filled the orders from Japan with blue-and-white (kosometsuke) and enamel-decorated (ko'akae) wares made as efficiently and cheaply as possible, often with technical imperfections not tolerated among their domestic patrons. But these imper- fections suited the aesthetic taste of Japan's tea masters, and these wares, which were mainly used for the tea ceremony, are treasured to this day by Japanese collectors." excerpt from the introductory message by Virginia A. Kamsky Chair, Board of Trustees and Sara Judge McCalpin, President of China Institute. …

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. New York: China Institute in America, 1995. First edition, 1995. Softcover, 168 pages, illustrated in both color and in black and white. Light edge rubbing, very minor scuff to front cover, firm binding, clean pages, no names or other markings. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.…

Paperback. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: n No Jacket. y 1st Edition. Alexandria, Virginia: Art Services International, 2002. Book. Near Fine. Soft cover. 1st Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Book published to accompany an exhibition organized by Art Services International and held in Honolulu, Dallas, Texas, and Charlottesville. With essays by Qianshen Bat, Yibin Ni and Evelyn S Rawski. 251pp with index, illustrated throughout in colour. Tiny ble,mish to edge of rear panel and minor rippling to tissue guard, otherwise near fine copy with no inscriptions. HEAVY BOOK, extra postage may be required for Air Mail shipping. Book.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. English text; Hardcover (cloth) with dust jacket; 21.7 x 29 cm; 0.643 Kg; 102 pages with black-and-white illustrations.; Used book with minor signs wear on the dust jacket and interior.Very good condition overall.; The papers included in Volume 53 of the Transactions of Oriental Ceramic Society cover a variety of both media and regions. The significant paper on Neolithic Jade Carving in China by Dr Watt will be of special interest to those concerned with new discoveries of this material. John Guy's paper on the decorated Vietnamese ceramic tiles located in mosques in Java breaks new ground on the subject of artitic transmissions and on trade and is valuable for the historical insights. A far cry from this is Ju.ia B. Curtis paper on Chinese export porcelain found in West Virginia, a paper with interesting highlights on the social history of its users. For lovers of Japanese art, especially lacquer, Julia Hutt paper on the Gifu Inro tells a particularly intriguing story of the manufacture and identity of a large set of these objects. The volume is completed with a slightly abridged version of Philip Allen's paper on tea and Yixing wares in Europe, based on a datable collection of teapots from that famous kiln.…

Soft cover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket as Issued. 1st Edition. Light general wear to covers plus a vertical crease to rear. Spine not creased. A minor mark to last blank page, otherwise internally very clean. 251pp Size: 215mm x 290mm. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. English text; Hardcover (cloth); 21.4 x 28.3 cm; 0.889 Kg; 11 pages (Members of the Council, Transactions and Obituaries) plus 152 pages with various colour and black-and-white illustrations; Used book with almost no signs of shelf wear as the book is protected with a trimsleeve Dustwrapper. The interior is in very good condition.; Includes the following articles: Yaozhou wares: The eighth Hills Gold Medal Lecture by Zhuo Zhenxi; Changsha to Jingdezhen: In-glaze decoration in Chinese Ceramics from the 8th century to the 16th century by Stancey Pierson; Thinking with Pictures: Tomb Figures in the Chinese View of the Afterlife by Jessica Rawson; A Reassessment of Khmer Ceramics and Their Origins by John Guy; Kangxi (1662-1722) Wares by Lu Minghua; China and Russian chinoiserie in the 18th century by Tatiana Arapova; Qing dynasty Sepia and Rich Black Overlaze Enamel Decorated Porcelains Kangxi (1662-1722) Yongzheng (1723-1735) Qianlong (1736-1795) by Richard Littleton; If Pots Could Speak: the Old Art History and the New by Julia B. Curtis; From Ship's Captains to the Bloomsbury Group: the Late Arrival of Chinese Painting in Britain by Frances Wood; The Oriental Ceramic Society in Istanbul and Iran by Phillip N. Allen; and Summaries of Lectures by Oliver Watson and John Eskenzi.…

Soft cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. English text; Paperback; 22 x 27.5 cm; 0.836 kg; 256 pages with black-and-white illustrations.; Used with signs of wear on the exterior and interior. The exterior shows wear marks, edge wear, scuffs and scratches. Parts of the front cover show signs of have been bent. Spine slightly faded. Interior with signs of wear, namely two stickers glued to the front free endpaper (one partly removed). Remaining interior with wear marks throughout. Good readable/working copy.; Catalogue from the exhibition held June 15 - 17 1992 in Celebration of the 100th Anniversary of the Birth of Sir Percival David and the 40th Anniversary of the Opening of the Percival David Foundation.; "In this year of anniversaries for the Percival David Foundation it seemed appropriate that the Percival David Colloquy on Art and Archaeology in Asia should be devoted to a topic of particular relevance to the Foundation's own collection. Since well over half the ceramics in the collection were made at China's main porcelain producing centre, Jingdezhen in Jiangxi province, the wares from these kilns provide the subject for this colloquy. The Jingdezhen in kilns themselves and their products have provided some of the most fascinating archaeological finds in the People's Republica of China in recent years, and we were fortunate to have two speakers from China with first-hand knowledge of this important excavated material. Other contributors pursued a range of topics including technological developments, the organization of the kilns, the significance of ceremonial wares, specific decorative motifs, their origins and evolution, archaism, trading networks, the wares made for particular markets, and the influence of missionaires." excerpt from the foreword by Rosemary E. Scott, Curator, March 1993.…

Soft cover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. English text.; Paperback; 22 x 29.5 cm; 1.3 kg; 252 pages with 125 colour and 51 black-and-white illustrations.; Used with signs of wear on the exterior. Edge wear. Signs of wear on the interior. Good condition overall.; In June 1644, the Manchu conquerors of China entered Beijing and named a five-year-old boy to be the Shunzhi emperor, the first ruler of the Qing dynasty. This groundbreaking book and exhibition is the first to focus on porcelains from Shunzhi's reign (1644-61), which until recently have been little known and studied, as have other seventeenth-century ceramics from the great kiln center in Jingdezhen. New research, publications, and the coming to light of more high-quality dated pieces from the Shunzhi era have forced a re-examination of the so-called Transitional Period (1620-83). This catalogue and the travelling exhibition it documents brings together for the first time a collection of outstanding porcelain vessels from the Shunzhi reign, combined with recent advances in knowledge of the art and history of the early Qing. This book includes 87 examples of Jingdezhen porcelains, comprising a wide variety of types, decorative styles, and subjects, and including a number with dates in the Shunzhi era. The texts by leading scholars and a collector of seventeenth-century ceramics shed much new light on ceramics and their historical context. Six thematic essays and entries for each work discuss the evolution of porcelain and their markets during the period, new insights from the study of decorative subjects and calligraphy, the history of the Shunzhi reign, and the collecting of seventeenth-century porcelains in the West. New findings include the identification of many of the animals, plants, and scenes from history and literature painted on the porcelain.This book is an important addition to the libraries of those interested in the effects of politics on art, and collectors and students of porcelain and Chinese art, especially of the Qing dynasty. …

Soft cover. Condition: New. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First edition 2002. Published in conjunction with exhibition by Art Services Intl, Alexandria, VA. Large softcover without DJ as issued. Condition new, square tight and crisp book, spine not creased, no edgewear, sharp corners, no markings of any kind, no names, no underlinings no highlights, no bent page corners, not a reminder. Tall 4to, 251 pages, illustrated throughout with color plates and numerous smaller b/w illustrations, chronology, index. Heavy book will require additional postage for international orders.…

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. Book is in fine condition. 168pp with colour photographs.

Paperback. Condition: Good. no dj. Transactions of The Oriental Ceramic Society 1988-1989: Neolithic Jade Carving in China, The Vietnamese all Tiles of Majapahit, 17th and 18th Century Chinese Export Ware in Southeastern Virginia, The Gifu Inro : A set of Hundred Inro. Book.

paperback. Condition: Very Good. Very Good .Ships From Multiple Locations. book.

Hardcover. Condition: New. In the declining decades of the Ming dynasty, the Japanese market provided much needed revenue for the kilns at Jingdezhen. The Chinese potters filled the orders from Japan with blue-and-white and enamel-decorated wares made as efficiently and cheaply as possible, often with technical imperfections not tolerated among their domestic patrons. But these imperfections suited the aesthetic taste of Japanâs tea masters, and these wares, which were mainly used for the tea ceremony, are treasured to this day by Japanese collectors. They tell us more than we expect about two different cultures and leave us with a new level of appreciation for the role of commerce in the transformation of mundane objects.…