This is the first book in English to document what Japanese porcelain was like before it was "discovered" in Europe, and thereafter made with a view to foreign, rather than Japanese, tastes. It is also the first in-depth study of the working practices of the pottery kilns of the seventeenth century. Impey assesses the individual kilns at Arita and reconstructs a detailed and fascinating picture of how these beautiful, little-known objects were made.
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This is the first book in English to document what Japanese porcelain was like before it was "discovered" in Europe, and thereafter made with a view to foreign, rather than Japanese, tastes. It is also the first in-depth study of the working practices of the pottery kilns of the seventeenth century. Impey assesses the individual kilns at Arita and reconstructs a detailed and fascinating picture of how these beautiful, little-known objects were made.
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Fine in Very Good+ jacket. 156pp. Quarto in blue cloth. B&W and color photos. Boards crisp and unworn; bookplate on front free endpaper, else interior clean, crisp, and bright; light shelfwear to jacket.
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Like New. As new clean tight and bright large format hardcover in jacket with touch of shelf wear only. oversized and overweight. Please email for photos.
