Sung Wares (A Survey of Chinese Ceramics, volume 2)
Taipai, Taiwan: Aries Gemini Publishing Ltd., 1991. Hardcover. Brown cloth, gilt letters on spine & front cover, brown & color illus. dust jacket, 307 pp., 650 color illus. and 74 BW drawings; weighs 6.5 lbs. VG- (DJ has sunned or faded along spine and top edge; binding has aged in appearance a bit; pages and illus,. are clean.). Item #148650
The second volume only of a five-volume series covering "historic Chinese porcelain and ceramic wares of all periods." (dj) This one addresses the three centuries of the Sung dynasty, "from the first establishment of the Northern Sung dynasty in A.D. 960 to the final extinction of the Southern Sung dynasty by the Yuan in A. D. 1279." (foreword) This oversized book contains hundreds of beautiful full-color illustrations.
Price: $350.00