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The American Ceramic Society
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
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"In Working with Porcelain, you'll discover the ins and outs of using porcelain. Compiled from the Ceramics Monthly and Pottery Making Illustrated archives, along with helpful insights and notes from renowned porcelain artist Antoinette Badenhorst, you'll learn about porcelain's distinctive qualities and how to successfully create with this always beautiful, but often temperamental clay body. Working with Porcelain provides invaluable information...
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Collecting Japanese Antiques is an excellent overview of the uniquely Japanese aesthetic and how it relates to Japanese culture. From the time Japan started trading with the West in the sixteenth century, Japanese arts and crafts have intrigued and delighted Westerners, especially lacquer, screens, swords and porcelain. Antique hunters will benefit from the practical and cautionary advice in this book; newcomers will appreciate information on the...
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China's renowned art objects, furnishings, and handicrafts have long been sought by collectors and inspired designers. Through 60 emblematically Chinese antiques and items, Things Chinese opens up the world of Chinese culture. The history, cultural significance and customs surrounding these exemplars of Chinese art and material culture come into dazzling focus through detailed descriptions and full-color photographs. Items covered include: o Bamboo...
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Chinese Snuff Bottles is invaluable document for all interested in the history of Chinese art. It is also a lucid and fascinating guidebook for the collector or would be collector, both of snuff bottles and other products of Chinese craftsmanship. All the skills and ingenuity of the Chinese artisans were lavished upon the production of these tiny bottles, making them pre-eminent representatives of the best in Chinese craftsmanship. This classic art...
18) Dishes
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Dishes is the dish obsessive's dream come true-a definitive guide to the colorful, wonderful dinner plate, with hundreds of patterns organized thematically and annotated with historical details and charming anecdotes that span centuries and continents. The book is chock-full of everything a dish lover could hope for, including more than 600 of history's most stunning plates, profiles of iconic manufacturers like Wedgwood, Spode, and Homer Laughlin,...
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Excerpt from Hard Paste Porcelain (Oriental): China, Japan, Siam, Korea
The earlier porcelains of the Ming dynasty, which extended from 1368 to 1643 of the Christian era, were more vigorous and barbaric in form and coloring, and heavier and coarser in paste than those of the present dynasty, from 1644 to the present time, which latter, in respect to tranalucency, fineness and thinness of paste, and exquisite color, reached their highest perfection...
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