jin liyan (3 resultados)

Paperback. Condición: Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: no dj. Leaf-Letters and Straw-Bridges. the Jingpos. Book.

Cloth. Condición: Good, unless otherwise noted. 675 pp. Full page colour plates throughout both volumes. Colour and b/w text plates. // Weighty two-volume work showing superb Chinese ceramics plus a few other items sourced in China and sold by the Japanese dealer, Yamanaka, in the first half of the 20th century. Volume One: Plates, Volume Two: Research Materials. The Plates volume illustrates 128 superb examples of Chinese ceramics dating from the Tang onwards through the Song, Ming and Qing to the Republic are illustrated. Also six Qing jades (5 from the Prince Kung collection), a pair of Qianlong zitan incense stands, a pair of Qianlong zitan armchairs and a Qing cloisonné altar set. The pieces are shown in full page colour with (in the majority of cases) an accompanying black-and-white illustration showing the item in a Yamanaka sale catalogue. The Research Materials volume shows numerous other ceramics and a number of jades (predominantly Qing) handled by Yamanaka. Also a number of Yamanaka-related black-and-white photographs. Introductions, essays on the history of Yamanaka, its trade in objects sourced in China, the early collection and appreciation of ancient Chinese ceramics in Japan, the Baur collection and Tomita Kumasaku (who had worked for Yamanaka), plus other contributions. This work was produced to accompany an exhibition held by the Classy Society in Beijing in 2020. Dual texts in Chinese, English and Japanese. Due to the interest in the company and the magic of a Yamanka provenance, this work went immediately out-of-print. We have managed to obtain a couple of copies.

Cloth. Condición: Good, unless otherwise noted. 10, 1261 pp. Over 1100 illustrations, predominantly b/w. // Large and weighty four-volume work which reproduces 15 catalogues produced for sale exhibitions and other exhibitions held by Yamanaka & Co. in Japan from 1923 to 1939 and which contained Chinese works of art. Yamanaka & Co. has become legendary due to the superb quality (and quantity!) of the Chinese objects they handled in the course of some 40 years. Many of these objects found their way into museums and private collections in Japan and America. A Yamanaka provenance adds huge cachet and value to any such object now auctioned or sold. The sourcing of some categories of objects by Yamanaka has now become contentious - particularly the archaeological objects and stone sculpture. Over 1100 illustrations show approximately 6000 Chinese art objects in various media - ceramics, ancient bronzes, sculpture, paintings, furniture, scholar?s studio objects etc. An additional 100 b/w photographs show exhibition interiors, shop interiors etc. Three of the volumes reproduce the Yamanaka catalogues. The fourth shows additional related photographic material. Not all of the hundreds of items listed in the catalogues were illustrated, although complete listings of the items in each exhibition are given. Only illustrations with Chinese works of art are reproduced. This work provides a valuable and fascinating insight into the activity of the world?s pre-eminent dealer in Chinese art prior to the Second World War and also into the flow and trade of top-level Chinese art in the early 20th century. Original Yamanaka catalogues are extremely difficult to find and very expensive when located. This is thus a valuable corpus of work. Forewords, editor?s notes, list of contents, translations of forewords to catalogues (plus some other texts in catalogues), essay and epilogue in English. Main texts in Chinese and Japanese.Produced in a small edition which immediately went out-of-print and has since commanded very high prices in China - when a copy can be found.