Oriental Lowestoft, Chinese export porcelain : porcelaine de la Cie des Indes, with special reference to the trade with China and the porcelain decorated for the American market
Oriental Lowestoft, Chinese export porcelain : porcelaine de la Cie des Indes, with special reference to the trade with China and the porcelain decorated for the American market.
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VG-contents, clean and tight, but with fading and fraying to cloth covers; a small water stain on front cover. Blue cloth with embossed title. viii, [2], 166, [2], 16 double-sided bw plates and 4 color plates (inc. frontispiece). The expression "Oriental Lowestoft" has become a generic name for any porcelain made in China for export to Europe and America. This is the result of erroneous attribution by Chaffers in 1863). and is the subject matter of this book, not exclusively porcelain made at the Lowestoft factory although there is a history of that factory and a description of their output. With Special reference to the Trade with China and the Porcelain Decorated for the American Market. 7 chapters cover trade in oriental porcelains, the East India Companies, Jesuits in China, decoration for Western markets, pieces made for the American market, American Marine Lowestoft, famous American decorative pieces, US arms, arms of individual states and cities, and more.
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VG, clean, bright, and tight; may have light spotting to top of front cover and some fading to spine. Orange cloth with embossed title. viii, [4], 168, 16 double-sided bw plates and 4 color plates (inc. frontis). The expression "Oriental Lowestoft" has become a generic name for any porcelain made in China for export to Europe and America. This is the result of erroneous attribution by Chaffers in 1863). and is the subject matter of this book, not exclusively porcelain made at the Lowestoft factory although there is a history of that factory and a description of their output. With Special reference to the Trade with China and the Porcelain Decorated for the American Market. 7 chapters cover trade in oriental porcelains, the East India Companies, Jesuits in China, decoration for Western markets, pieces made for the American market, American Marine Lowestoft, famous American decorative pieces, US arms, arms of individual states and cities, and more.
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Good. Second edition limited to fifteen hundred copies. Quarto. 166pp. Illustrated with thirty-two plates in monchrome and four in color. Light foxing on endpapers, spine ends frayed, edges worn, spine faded, thus good only.
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Third edition, limited to 1000 copies. Quarto. Illustrated with numerous black & white plates and a color frontispiece. Gilt-lettered orange cloth. Spine-faded, else a fine copy. A monograph on china decorated for the American market.
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4to. Blue cloth with gilt lettering. viii, 166pp. Top edge gilt. Color frontispiece, 3 full-page color plates, 32 full-page plates. Very good. Mild corner and edgewear, with spine faintly sunned and small chip at spine head; ownership signature on inner flyleaf; internally tight and fine. A tight and nice second edition, limited to 1500 copies.