Annan toji zukan = Annamese ceramics

Tokyo: Zauho Kankokai hatsubai, 1954. Hardbound. Orange publishers cloth with characters on spine. 8, 22 p., 96 illus. (including appx. 6 in color). Good+ except for inside front hinge being cleanly broken. Ink stamps to top and bottom of page edges, ex library. Item #125238

Seems to focus on Vietnamese ceramics from a private collection. Text is presented in English and Japanese. Rare, and certainly this copy can be restored easily. One researcher has noted ..."There were vast areas of confusion in people's minds. For example, we were not confident that we could always distinguish a Vietnamese piece from a Thai one from the Sukhothai factory. We were often misled by the illustrations in Okuda Seiichi's "Annam Toji Zukan (Annamese ceramics)", published in 1954, in which half of the illustrated specimens identified by him as Annamese are in fact from south China. We were also worried about dates."

Price: $500.00

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