![[CHINESE PORCELAIN] HSIANG, Y.-P. Chinese Porcelain: Sixteenth-Century Coloured Illustrations with Chinese MS text. Tr. by Stephen Bushell. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1908. 4° (309 x 250mm). Coloured lithographic plates throughout. Text in Chinese and English. Stitched cloth covers, blue silk case.](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2013/CKS/2013_CKS_01185_0110_000(chinese_porcelain_hsiang_y-p_chinese_porcelain_sixteenth-century_colou055130).jpg?w=1)
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[CHINESE PORCELAIN] HSIANG, Y.-P. Chinese Porcelain: Sixteenth-Century Coloured Illustrations with Chinese MS text. Tr. by Stephen Bushell. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1908. 4° (309 x 250mm). Coloured lithographic plates throughout. Text in Chinese and English. Stitched cloth covers, blue silk case.
FIRST EDITION. Hsiang Yuen P'ien, a celebrated Chinese connoisseur famed as an art collector, painter and calligraphist, conceived the idea of preparing an illustrated catalogue of porcelains after the model of earlier catalogues of ancient bronzes. The original album was lost in a fire in 1887, but a duplicate copy survived which was translated and prepared for publication in 1908 by Stephen Bushell.
FIRST EDITION. Hsiang Yuen P'ien, a celebrated Chinese connoisseur famed as an art collector, painter and calligraphist, conceived the idea of preparing an illustrated catalogue of porcelains after the model of earlier catalogues of ancient bronzes. The original album was lost in a fire in 1887, but a duplicate copy survived which was translated and prepared for publication in 1908 by Stephen Bushell.
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