Ceramics and glass Books
Arnoldsche Modern 20th-century Ceramics: Inventory Catalogue
Book SynopsisThe Hinder/Reimers Collection - which has been owned by the state of Rhineland-Palatinate since 1993 - is one of the most important collections of modern ceramics in Germany. It was built up from the early 1950s through the combined efforts of Jakob Wilhelm Hinder (1901-1976) and Lotte Reimers (* 1932). The focus of this large collection is on West German ceramics from the 1950s to about 1990. Since the mid-1970s it has been enlarged by Lotte Reimers to include outstanding works from outside Germany. These 1,587 objects provide insights into the crucial trends and stylistic movements in art ceramics after the Second World War as represented by the most distinguished ceramicists of the day. Featuring explanatory texts and colour illustrations, the present publication presents the entire collection and, therefore, goes beyond the scope of Ceramics in Germany 1955-1990. The Hinder/Reimers Collection, published in 1997, which dealt with only a selection of works from the collection. The new publication, on the other hand, draws on the Hinder/Reimers Collection to survey the broad field of developments in studio ceramics in the latter half of the 20th century in western Germany while looking well beyond the borders of Germany. Text in English and German.
£54.00
Arnoldsche Gene Koss: Sculpture
Book SynopsisGene Koss creates majestic works in glass and steel that require demanding techniques to realise their monumental scale. These massive volumes of glass are married with elaborately engineered steel elements. Koss casts molten glass directly from the hot furnace, working with teams of highly-skilled assistants and rigging together intricate systems for transporting his finished abstract works for display in museums, galleries and public spaces. The artistic works deal with the self-sacrificing work of the American farmers in whose milieu the artist grew up. The first monograph published on the work of this groundbreaking glass artist features Koss's most important achievements and, through insightful essays by curators and critics, places them in historic perspective.
£29.25
Arnoldsche All Walks of Life: A Journey with The Alan
Book SynopsisAll Walks of Life offers a unique opportunity to get to know the 18th-century people of Saxony, Paris, London, and St. Petersburg through the Meissen porcelain sculpture of The Alan Shimmerman Collection. Johann Joachim Kaendler, along with his fellow modellers and painters at Meissen, captured glimpses of everyday life by paying meticulous attention to the smallest details: the carefully arranged tray of a trinket seller, the personal writing of a love letter, the larding tools of a cook preparing a hare. The Shimmerman Collection’s focus on groups of town criers and artisans provides a fresh look at the creation, production, and distribution of Meissen porcelain. The publication includes the first comprehensive scientific analysis of a major collection of Meissen figures.
£60.00
Arnoldsche Glass Marks Encyclopedia 1600 - 1945: Signatures,
Book SynopsisAfter more than eight years of intensive research this is the first and only encyclopaedia of glass marks from the 17th to the 20th century and its at last available
£163.50
Tuttle Publishing Otafuku: Joy of Japan
Book SynopsisIn shops, shrines, homes and gardens throughout Japan, at noisy festivals and in the most serene teahouses, you are likely to encounter the plump, smiling image of Otafuku—a mythic figure from Japan's distant past.With her twinkling eyes and rosy lips, she appears in countless incarnations: on banners, cups and bowls, and in craft, furniture, painting and sculpture. Who is this warm, wonderful lady, whose gentle and calming presence is felt everywhere in Japan?In Otafuku, renowned author Amy Katoh explores in her own inimitable way the colorful world of Otafuku. Katoh traces Otafuku's roots and folk beginnings, showing her many delightful identities, and providing a magical glimpse into this charming and little-known corner of Japanese culture. With a mixture of poems, photographs, anecdotes and stories, she presents a veritable jewel box of surprises that is sure to enchant readers.Today Otafuku is Japan's most influential female icon and is attributed with having many bestowing powers including health, pleasure, success, and the granting of wishes.
£9.41
Kant Vladimira Klumpar: Work in Glass
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£46.75
Museum Tusculanum Press Modern Glass, 1800-2000
£48.07
Aarhus University Press Pottery in the Archaeological Record: Greece &
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£20.70
Silvana Déco Ceramics: The Style of an Era
Book SynopsisThe book focuses on a heritage of works of rare beauty, which offers an exhaustive overview of Déco taste, told mainly through ceramics, but also through graphics, glass and metals. The works presented - Italian, but also European and American, dating from the end of the First World War to 1929 - are the expression of well-known artists who marked the history of Italian ceramics at the beginning of the century, and are of absolute international importance. Domenico Rambelli, Francesco Nonni, Pietro Melandri, Riccardo Gatti, Giovanni Guerrini, to mention some of the best-known names. Text in English and Italian.
£19.96
Skira René Lalique: at the Calouste Gulbenkian Museum
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£24.00
L'Erma Di Bretschneider Gutti E Askoi a Rilievo Italioti Ed Etruschi:
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£113.05
L'Erma Di Bretschneider Le Coppe Megaresi in Italia
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£144.40
L'Erma Di Bretschneider The Italiote Red Figured Vases: In the Museo
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£80.75
L'Erma Di Bretschneider Ergasteria: Impianti Artigianali Ceramici Ad
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£177.65
L'Erma Di Bretschneider I Gesti Della Seduzione: Tracce Di Comunicazione
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£142.50
L'Erma Di Bretschneider Around the Hearth: Caeretan Cylinder-Stamped
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£127.30
L'Erma Di Bretschneider Il Greco, Il Barbaro E La Ceramica Attica:
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£131.10
L'Erma Di Bretschneider La Ceramica Invetriata in Area Vesuviana
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£104.50
L'Erma Di Bretschneider de Re Metallica: Dalla Produzione Antica Alla
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£153.90
L'Erma Di Bretschneider Il Tornio, La Nave E Le Terre Lontane:
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£363.85
L'Erma Di Bretschneider Il Greco, Il Barbaro E La Ceramica Attica:
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£142.50
L'Erma Di Bretschneider Il Greco, Il Barbaro E La Ceramica Attica:
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£144.40
Hong Kong University Press Objectifying China - Ming and Qing Dynasty
Book SynopsisPorcelain, with its fine white body, delicately painted decoration and associations with China's culture and vast wealth, has long delighted and captivated people in the West, as well as across the whole of Asia and the Islamic world. This catalogue accompanies the exhibition Objectifying China: Ming and Qing Dynasty Ceramics and Their Stylistic Influences Abroad, held at the University Museum and Art Gallery of The University of Hong Kong. The work explores the production of Chinese porcelain and other ceramics for both export and the domestic market, and the many responses to these wares made overseas using local materials and decorative techniques. The objects are considered from a variety of perspectives: as the product of skilled artisans, valuable trade commodities, useful objects for daily life and as important evidence of cultural interaction.
£19.00
CA Book Publishing Shang Shan Tang: Exhibition of Ancient Chinese
Book SynopsisThis exhibition catalogue features 20 exquisite pieces of Chinese works of art, with the majority dated from the Song dynasty. Exhibited items include a Neolithic period pottery bottle; Machange-type Neolithic Period jars; Northern Song to Jin Dynasty June ware of Li-type tripod censer; a bubble-bowl with blue glaze and splashes; Northern Song Jun-type sky blue-glazed plate with everted rim and rose-purple splashes, Qingliangsi Ware; a celadon glazed lobed candlestick, Longquan ware; a sky-blue glazed ware dropper carved with peony design, Yaozhou Ware; a persimmon-red glazed saucer, Ding ware; white glazed small cup, Xing ware; paper-mallet vase with iron-rust splashes, Cizhou ware; porcelain child-shaped pillow, Changzhi ware. Text in English and Chinese.
£60.00
CA Book Publishing The Wei Miao Shan Fang Collection of Chinese
Book SynopsisJason Chen, the owner of this collection, is a man with a passion for life, of which much time is devoted to collecting snuff bottles, although he runs a thriving business. His collection houses over 2,000 bottles, with a select portion shown in these two volumes. Volume I illustrates bottles from varying materials, while the second, slimmer volume shows part of Jason's collection of miniature snuff bottles. While the whole collection is a work of art in itself, Jason, like other passionate collectors, has a story for every bottle, often the story of acquisition. He is a collector who enjoys both the thrill of the chase and the pleasure of ownership. When other collectors think of Jason Chen and his collection, they often speak of his love of great agate bottles. Few collectors have dedicated themselves to forming a collection of miniature snuff bottles in the way that Jason has. For the most part, although collectors have affection for the smallest of the small, Jason has applied himself to hunting down and acquiring these minute treasures. Text in English and Chinese.Table of Contents1. Foreword 2. Preface 3. Introduction 4. Catalogue 5. Ceramic 6. Enamel 7. Glass 8. Inside-Painted 9. Jade 10. Metal 11. Organic 12. Quartz 13. Index 14. Selected Bibliography
£79.50
