Lot 528

CHINESE AND JAPANESE ART, MISCELLANY - Chinese Porcelain. The S. C. Ko Tianminlou Collection, Hong Kong, 1987, 2 volumes, 4to, coloured plates, original dark blue silk boards, slipcase. FIRST EDITION. With 9 other works in 12 volumes. (14)

Estimate: £300 - £500
Hammer price: £350
Bidding ended. Lot has been sold.

CHINESE AND JAPANESE ART, MISCELLANY - Chinese Porcelain. The S. C. Ko Tianminlou Collection. Hong Kong: Hong Kong Museum of Art, 1987. 2 volumes, 4to (352 x260mm). Coloured plates. Original dark blue silk boards, the upper covers with Chinese characters stamped in blind, the spines lettered in silver, slipcase. FIRST EDITION. With 9 other works of related interest in 12 volumes, namely Les Hautes Époques de l' Art Chinoir d' après les Collections du Musée Cernuschi (Paris, [n.d.], 4to, plates loose as issued in original portfolio, ties), Collection of Rare Old Chinese Porcelains Collected by Sir William Bennett, K.C.V.O., Purchased and Exhibited by Gorer (London, 1910, 8vo, coloured plates, original green cloth gilt, [?]lacks front free endpaper), Helen White's Snuff Bottles from China. The Victoria and Albert Museum Collection (London, 1990, 4to, coloured plates, original silk boards, dust-jacket, slipcase, FIRST EDITION), Wang Shixiang's Connoisseurship of Chinese Furniture. Ming and Early Dynasties (Hong Kong, 1990, 2 volumes, 4to, coloured plates, original buckram, slipcase, trade edition); and including 4 volumes (only) from The Baur Collection (namely, Pierre-F. Schneeberger's Chinese Jades and Other Hardstones (Geneva, 1976), B. W. Robinson's Japanese Sword-Fittings and Associated Metalwork (1980), John Ayers' Japanese Ceramics (1982) and Pierre-F. Scheeberger's Japanese Lacquer (1984)); and the catalogue of The Duke and Duchess of Windsor (New York, Sotheby's, September 11-19, 1997, 3 volumes, coloured illustrations, original wrappers, slipcase, price-list loosely-inserted). (14)

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