A GROUP OF FORTY-TWO CHINESE ART REFERENCE BOOKS
The group comprises reference books such as: Chinese Art, An Introductory Review of Painting, Ceramics, Textiles, Bronzes, Sculpture, Jade, etc. by Fry, Roger, Rackham, Bernard, and others; Chinese Art by R. L. Hobson and Chinese Carpets and Rugs by Adolf Hackmack.

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Grandidier, Ernest. La Ceramique Chinoise, as issued in folio in red cloth, Librairie de Firmin-Didot et Cie, Paris 1894.
Xiaoneng Yang, The Golden Age of Chinese Archaeology, Celebrtaed Discoveries from the People's Republic of China, National Gallery of Art, Washington 1999.
Sotheby's, The Meiyintang Collection, Part II (of V), Sotheby's Sale Catalogue 2011.
Inaugral Exhibition, Selected Masterpieces of the Matsuoka Museum of Art, Matsuoka, Bijutsukan 1975.
Fry, Roger, Rackham, Bernard, and others, Chinese Art, An Introductory Reviw of Painting, Ceramics, Textiles, Bronzes, Sculpture, Jade, etc, B T Batsford Ltd, London 1925.
Deydier, Christian, Archaic Chinese Bronzes I, Xia & Shang, ARHIS 1995.
Koechlin, R & Migeon, G, Oriental Art, Ceramics, Fabrics, Carpets, Ernest Benn Limited, London no date.
Hackmack, Adolf, Chinese Carpets and Rugs, La Librairie Francaise Tientsin 1924.
Clunas, Craig, Chinese Export Watercolours, Victoria & Albert Museum 1984.
Lion-Goldschmidt, Ming Porzellan, Belser, Stuttgart-Zurich 1978.
Jenyns, R Soame, Chinese Art: Gold, Silver, Later Bronzes, Cloisonne, Cantonese Enamel, Lacquer, Furniture & Wood, Phaidon, Oxford 1980.
Jenyns, R Soame, Chinese Art: Textiles, Glass and Painting on Glass, Carvings in Ivory and Rhinoceros Horn, Carvings in Hardstones, Snuff Bottles, Inkcakes and Inkstones, Phaidon, Oxford 1981.
Beurdeley, Michel, The Chinese Collector through the Centuries from the Han to the 20th Century, Office du Livre, Fribourg 1966.
Chu-Tsing, Li, Watt, C Y, The Chinese Scholar's Studio, Artistic Life in the Late Ming Period, Exhibition Catalogue, Thames & Hudson 1987.
Bushell, S W, Oriental Ceramic Art, Frederick Muller 1981.
Hobson, R L, Chinese Art, Ernest Benn Limited, London 1927.
Weber, Jr., George W, The Ornaments of Late Chou Bronzes, Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick 1973.
Woodward, C S, Oriental Ceramics at the Cape of Good Hope 1652-1795, A A Balkema, Cape Town 1974.
Scheurleer, Lunsingh, Chinese Export Porcelain, Pitman 1974.
Pickford, Nigel & Hatcher, Michael, Das Vermachtnis Der Tek Sing, Granta Editions, Cambridge 2000.
Honey, William Boyer, The Ceramic Art of China & Other Countries of the Far East, Faber & Faber 1944.
Wood, Nigel, Chinese Glazes, Their Origins, Chemistry and Recreation, A & C Black 1999.
National Museum of Korea, 5000 Years of Korean Art, National Museum of Korea 1976.
Addis, J M, Chinese Ceramics from datable tombs, Sotheby Parke Bernet 1978.
Kim, Chewon and Gompertz, G St. G M, The Ceramic Art of Korea, Faber & Faber 1961.
Peifen, Chen, Ancient Chinese Bronzes in the Shanghai Museum, 1995.
Garner, Sir Harry, Chinese Lacquer, Faber & Faber 1979.
Watt, James C Y, Ford Barbara Brennan, East Asian Lacquer, The Florence and Herbert Irving Collection, Metropolitan Museum of Art 1991.
Wills, Geoffrey, Jade of the East, Weatherhill/Orientations 1972.
Ashton, Leigh and Gray, Basil, Chinese Art, Pre-Han Period (c. 3000 BC -206 BC), Faber & Faber 1935.
Pirazzoli-t'Serstevens, Michele, La Chine des Han, Histoire et Civilisation, Office du Livre, Fribourg (Suisse) 1982.
Fry, Roger, Rackham, Bernard, and others, Chinese Art, An Introductory Review of Painting, Ceramics, Textiles, Bronzes, Sculpture, Jade, etc, B T Batsford Ltd, London 1945-1946.
Hansford, S Howard, A Glossary of Chinese Art and Archaeology, The China Society, London 1961.
Rhie, Marylin M and Thurman Robert A F, Wisdom and Compassion, The Sacred Art of Tibet, The Royal Academy of Arts, London 1991.
Smedt, Marc de, Chinese Eroticism, Liber SA, Fribourg 1981.
Corbeiller, Clare Le, China Trade Porcelain: Patterns of Exchange, The Metropolitan Museum of Art 1974.
Eiland, Murray L, Chinese and Exotic Rugs, Zwemmer 1979.
Grans-Ruedin, E, Der Chinesische Teppich, Prestel Verlag, Munchen 1981.
Garner, Sir Harry, Chinese and Japanese Cloisonné Enamels, Faber & Faber 1970.
Esten, John & Fischell, Rosalind, Blue & White China, Origins/Western Influences, Little, Brown & Company 1987.
Sullivan, Michael, An Introduction to Chinese Art, Faber & Faber 1961.
Fossati, Gildo, The World of Jade, Crescent Books, New York 1994.

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