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LUCAS, Sydney Edward, compiler. The Catalogue of Sassoon Chinese Ivories. London: Country Live and New York: Charles Scribner's, 1950.
3 volumes, 2o. Numerous colored plates of 966 objects. Original gilt lettered half vellum and green cloth, top edges gilt others uncut.
FIRST EDITION, LIMITED ISSUE number 62 of 250 sets by Sir Victor Sassoon and Sydney Edward Lucas. A comprehensive study on Chinese Ivories in the collection of Sir Victor Sassoon, formed in Beijing between 1915-1927, with many pieces "purchased from the Manchu family, whose forbears had received them as gifts from the Imperial Court, others were bought from temples, both Taoist and Buddhist" (preface).
3 volumes, 2o. Numerous colored plates of 966 objects. Original gilt lettered half vellum and green cloth, top edges gilt others uncut.
FIRST EDITION, LIMITED ISSUE number 62 of 250 sets by Sir Victor Sassoon and Sydney Edward Lucas. A comprehensive study on Chinese Ivories in the collection of Sir Victor Sassoon, formed in Beijing between 1915-1927, with many pieces "purchased from the Manchu family, whose forbears had received them as gifts from the Imperial Court, others were bought from temples, both Taoist and Buddhist" (preface).
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