LIST 199 NEW PUBLICATIONS COLLECTORS ENGLISH CERAMICS LATEST ACQUISITIONS HANSHAN TANG BOOKS H ANSHAN TANG BOOKS LTD Unit 3, Ashburton Centre 276 Cortis Road London SW15 3AY UK Tel (020) 8788 4464 Fax (020) 8780 1565 Int’l (+44 20) [email protected] www.hanshan.com CONTENTS N EW & RECENT PUBLICATIONS / 3 C OLLECTORS / 6 E NGLISH CERAMICS / 23 F ROM OUR STOCK / 29 S UBJECT INDEX / 60 T ERMS The books advertised in this list are antiquarian, second-hand or new publications. All books listed are in mint or good condition unless otherwise stated. If an out-of-print book listed here has already been sold, we will keep a record of your order and, when we acquire another copy, we will offer it to you. If a book is in print but not immediately available, it will be sent when new stock arrives. We will inform you when a book is not available. Prices take account of condition; they are net and exclude postage. 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United States: by personal US$ cheque, by transfer to our bank in New York, or by a cheque in Sterling drawn on an UK-based bank. Any other form of payment must be accompanied by an extra GB £15.00 to cover bank charges. Europe: by banker’s draft drawn on a UK bank, or by a cheque in Sterling drawn on a UK-based bank. Any other form of payment should be accompanied by an extra GB £15.00 to cover bank charges. If making a direct transfers, please contact us for IBAN and SWIFTBIC numbers. Rest of the World: by banker’s draft drawn on a UK bank. Other forms of payment should be accompanied by an extra GB £15.00 to cover bank charges. Hanshan Tang logo kindly written for us by the artist in Xu Bing’s Square Word Calligraphy. LIST 199 – 3 – NEW & RECENT PUBLICATIONS NEW & RECENT PUBLICATIONS 1 2020 ANTIQUES: CHINESE ARTS AUCTION RECORDS 2019.1.1-2019.12.31. 2020 Gudong Paimai Nianjian. 2020 古董拍賣年鑑. Taibei, 2020. c.500 pp. Colour plates throughout. 23x17 cm. Wrappers. £140.00 Detailed coverage of auction prices for Chinese ceramics, jade, bronzes, sculpture and numerous other fine works of art sold at sale rooms in the US, Europe and the Far East in 2019. Colour illustrations throughout. Thousands of fine examples are shown with prices realised. Brief captions to plates in both Chinese and English. A prime annual reference which goes out-of-print very quickly. 2 Almqvist, Kurt ed: THE SAMPANS FROM CANTON. F. H. af Chapman’s Chinese Gouaches. Gothenburg, 2018. 223; 67 pp. Over 100 full page colour illustrations. 2 vols. 27x36 cm. Decorative cloth. £90.00 Delightful and beautiful large-format work recording the unique collection of 96 Chinese gouaches and three larger works that had long hung in the country home in Sweden, Skarva Manor, of Fredrik af Chapman. The 96 gouaches date from the 18th century and show sampans and boats plying various trades — transporting salt, green teas, passenger sampans, carrying porcelain etc. Much va- riety. A beautiful collection that has now been saved for the Swedish nation. One page foreword in English, then full page colour il- lustrations throughout. It appears that the gouaches are reproduced near life-size. Some of the sampans and scenes also shown in close-up detail. Captions to plates in Swedish and English. A separate 67 page booklet inserted into the inside back cover of the main volume contains six essays in English pertinent to trade and exchange and the perception of the Middle Kingdom in Sweden at the time. 3 British Museum: MANGA. London, 2019. 352 pp. Colour illustrations throughout. 29x25 cm. Paper. £29.95 Catalogue of an exhibition which explores the history and development of this distinctive form of Japanese narrative storytelling that has become an art form renowned for breaking cultural and social barriers and for cutting-edge artistic expression. Now a multibil- lion dollar industry worldwide. Illustrated throughout and with a fascinating and enlightening text. 4 Carter, Martha: ARTS OF THE HELLENIZED EAST. Precious Metalwork and Gems of the Pre-Islamic era. London, 2015. 424 pp. Colour illustrations throughout. 28x23 cm. Cloth. £45.00 Discusses and illustrates 80 spectacular bowls, drinking vessels and other luxury items from the Hellenistic East. Includes numerous items never before published. The objects date from the centuries following Alexander the Great’s conquest of Iran and Bactria up to the advent of the Islamic era. Includes Sasanian and central Asian material. Essays accompany. These treasures all held in the al-Sabah Collection in Kuwait. 5 Chen Qi: ZHONGGUO SHUIYIN MUKE DE GUANNIAN YU JIYI. The Conception and Technique of Chinese Waterprint Woodcut. 中國水印木刻的觀念與技藝 。 陳琦 著. Beijing, 2019. 17, 506 pp. Colour and b/w text illustrations throughout. 26x21 cm. Boards. £90.00 Detailed and well-illustrated study of the development and practice of Chinese shuiyin woodblock printing from its earliest times through to the present day. Much illustration and description on the tools and process of shuiyin printing. Written by a contemporary Chinese print artist who excels in the technique. In Chinese. 6 Cui Yuan he ed: WUTAISHAN WENHUA YICHAN: BIHUA JUAN. (The Cultural Heritage of Wutaishan: Wall Paintings and Murals). 五台山文化遺產 ： 壁畫卷 。 崔元和 編纂. Taiyuan, 2018. 1, 3, 5, 229; 6, 204; 5, 212; 4, 202; 8, 263 pp. Full page and text colour plates throughout each volume. Numerous b/w text drawings. 5 vols. 31x24 cm. Cloth. £500.00 The first comprehensive survey of the highly-important cultural relics and heritage of the Buddhist site of Wutaishan in China’s Shanxi province. These five volumes focus on murals and wall paintings. Includes the extremely rare and important Tang dynasty murals and paintings in the miraculously-surviving Tang dynasty Foguang Temple, the Jin dynasty murals in Yanshan Temple, the very fine and extensive Ming dynasty mural paintings in Gongzhu Temple plus extensive amounts of other other early, Ming, Qing and early 20th century murals and wall paintings within these and numerous other religious sites in this famous and, until recently, remote Buddhist complex. Many of the murals and paintings systematically photographed for the first time. Illustrated throughout in colour and well described. Of much value for the study of Buddhist art in China. Text in Chinese. Very hard to obtain. 7 Fang Yulu: FANG SHI MO PU. (The Fang Family Compendium of Ink Cakes). 方氏墨譜 。 方于魯 撰. Ji’nan, 2018. 5, 2, 243 pp. Many b/w illustrations of ink cakes. 32x21 cm. Stitched, silk-case. £50.00 Reduced-size facsimile reprint of the black-and-white woodblock illustrations from the 1588 original. One of the glories of Ming dy- nasty book production and illustration, the ‘Fangshi Mopu’ is a high-quality catalogue reproducing a variety of designs on ink cakes. The patterns were widely copied in other handicraft media (jade, lacquer, wood) both in China and Japan. Fang Yulu (fl. 1570-1619) worked with well-known artists such as Wu Tingyu and Ding Yunpeng to produce designs along with the skilled woodblock carver, Huang Shouyan. In Chinese. Hard to obtain. 8 Feng Yongqian: LIAODAI TIEQI KAOGU YANJIU. (Archaeology and Research Regarding Liao Dynasty Iron Objects). 遼代鐵器考古研究 。 馮永谦 著. Shenyang, 1, 7, 32, 596 pp. Colour and b/w illustrations and b/w text drawings throughout. 27x19 cm. Boards. £150.00 A detailed study on rare survivals — iron objects recovered from Liao dynasty tombs in northern China and Inner Mongolia. Much il- lustration of arrowheads, horse fittings, utensils, pots and small sculptural objects. A good contribution to a subject on which little is written. In Chinese. 9 Frizot, Michel & Su Ying-Lung: HENRI CARTIER-BRESSON IN CHINA.