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The Beauty of Chinese Yixing Teapots: And the Finer Arts of Tea Drinking
Beautifully produced volume with quality paper and superb photography of very numerous,well chosen Yixing teapots. The author explores the relationship of teas and how the taste is effected by specific teapots. Quite a revelation. One can return to it over and over. If drinking tea and viewing masterfully produced Yixing teapots are meaningful to you, this volume is a must.
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Treasures from an Unknown Reign: Shunzhi Porcelain, 1644-1661
The Shunzhi era (1644-61), marking the end of the Ming Dynasty and the beginning of the Qing, was a transitional period in Chinese history. As far as porcelain was concerned, until the last 20 years, it was a little-known reign not only in the West but in China itself.
By the late 1630s, painters on porcelain had developed a new, highly recognizable, and successful style. Many of the innovative themes were taken from woodblock prints, with landscapes and narrative scenes particularly inspired by contemporary scroll and album paintings. Soon after 1644, potters began to paint wonderful landscapes, with stylistic devices such as clouds and rock formations used to fill in the "back" of the pot.
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Vietnamese and Chinese Ceramics Used in the Japanese Tea Ceremony
The book, originally published in Japanese, is arranged in three parts. The first part is comprised of ceramics made in Vietnam from pre-Christian days until the sixteenth century; the second and third part covers Chinese porcelain and stoneware of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
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Willow Ware: Ceramics in the Chinese Tradition: With Price Guide
Possibly the most popular single pattern of ceramic dishes is Willow Ware and this new book tells its complete story. Stemming from ancient Chinese origins, the blue transfer pattern became standardized in the early nineteenth century in England and has gone on to be interpreted in many variations to the present in America, Europe and Asia.
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