Asian Art Online Auction

July 07, 2011

LOT 132

Lot 132

Sixteen Volumes on Chinese Art Collections

Sixteen Volumes on Chinese Art Collections
Lot 132 Details
Sixteen Volumes on Chinese Art Collections

Including: CHINESE CULTURAL TREASURES. Hong Kong: 1993; TREASURES OF THE FORBIDDEN CITY. Jiajin. New York: Viking, 1986; THE EXHIBITION OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL FINDS OF THE PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF CHINA. Watson. London: Times Newspaper, 1973; TREASURES FROM THE SHANGHAI MUSEUM 6,000 YEARS OF CHINESE ART. Shanghai and San Francisco: Shanghai Museum and the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, 1983; CHINESE CERAMICS, BRONZES AND JADES IN THE COLLECTION OF SIR ALAN AND LADY BARLOW. Sullivan. London: Faber and Faber Limited, 1963; CHINESE TREASURES FROM THE AVERY BRUNDAGE COLLECTION. d’Argence. New York: The Asia Society, 1968; THE HANS POPPER COLLECTION OF ORIENTAL ART. d’Argence. Japan: Kodansha International Ltd., 1973; THE CHINESE SCHOLAR’S STUDIO: ARTISTIC LIFE IN THE LATE MING PERIOD. Li and Watt. New York: The Asia Society Galleries and Thames and Hudson, 1987; CHINESE CALLIGRAPHY AND PAINTING IN THE COLLECTION OF JOHN M. CRAWFORD, JR. New York: The Pierpont Morgan Library, 1962; FRIENDS OF WEN CHENG-MING: A VIEW FROM THE CRAWFORD COLLECTION. Wilson and Wong. New York: China Institute in America, 1974; OSAKA EXCHANGE EXHIBITION: PAINTINGS FROM THE ABE COLLECTION AND OTHER MASTERPIECES OF CHINESE ART. San Francisco: San Francisco Center of Asian Art and Culture, 1970; CHINESE CERAMICS FROM CHICAGO COLLECTIONS. Monroe. Evanston, Illinois: Northwestern University, Mary and Leigh Block Gallery, 1982; A DECADE OF COLLECTING: 1966-1976. San Francisco: Kodansha International Ltd., 1976; THE SELIGMAN COLLECTION OF ORIENTAL ART. London: Arts Council, 1966; SCHNUTGEN-MUSEUM. Cologne: 1964; THE BEIJING PALACE COLLECTION. Frankfurt, 1985; THE MUSEUM OF FAR EASTERN ANTIQUITIES: BULLETIN NO. 54. Stockholm: Elanders Boktryckeri Ab, Kungsbacka,1982

Estimate $50-$100

Realised: $156
Price Includes Buyer's Premium ?

Lot Report

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Sixteen Volumes on Chinese Art Collections
  • Sixteen Volumes on Chinese Art Collections
Provenance:

From the library of books and catalogues of a prominent Toronto Asian Art collector

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