Arthur Sackler Museum (55 results)

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Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Due to age and/or environmental conditions, the pages of this book have darkened. Former library book. Mylar protector included. Solid binding. Moderate shelf wear. Please note the image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item. Ex-Library.…

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Hardcover. Condition: Used: Very Good. FIRST EDITION. 1986 Harvard U Art Museums Hardback in Dustjacket. 11 x 9. 344 pages with color and b/w plates throughout. Short tear rear DJ else very good overall condition. No underlining, etc., NOT EX-LIBRARY. (B).

First Edition. Fine copy in the original color-printed, stiff-card wrappers. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description; 48 pages. Subjects; Rajassthani Miniatures. The Welch Collection. Art Exhibitions. 1 Kg.

First Edition. Fine copy in the original color-printed, stiff-card wrappers. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description; 48 pages. Subjects; Rajassthani Miniatures. The Welch Collection. Art Exhibitions. 1 Kg.

246pp. 129 plates (24 color). Lrg. 4to. Wraps.

246pp. 129 plates (24 color). 4to. Wraps.

Condition: Very Good.

Large softcover, very good. Many color plates. Book.

Paperback. Condition: Used: Very Good. Softcover with no marks or writing in book. Chinese tomb sculptures. Profusely illustrated in color. A little rubbing to edge of cover; otherwise like new.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. Catalogue of an exhibition held at the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery (Smithsonian Institution, May 27 to September 9, 1990), the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco (October 10 to December 9, 1990), and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (January 10, 1990-March 10, 1991). One loose plate inserted on p. 107. Description: 198 pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 34 cm. …

Soft cover. Condition: Good. PB/pub.1986/Gd.condition/344 pages - A guide to the collections. [TE334272]. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. FIRST EDITION with dust jacket - rare and collectable - will send out 1 st class post within 12 hours of receipt of order.

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First Edition. Fine copy in the original colour printed boards. Particularly and uncommonly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Literally as new, still in the publisher's original shrink wrap. Physical description; 303 pages : illustrations ; 32 cm. Summary; "Nine essays explore issues of conservation as well as cultural and historical significance of various objects in the largely unpublished collection of Norma Jean Calderwood Collection of Islamic Art. Topics include the influence of calligraphic line and physical gesture on Safavid drawings; figurative imagery on Iranian ceramics; and what cobalt pigment reveals about an object's origins." Subject; Calderwood, Norma Jean Art collections Exhibitions. 1 Kg.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. civ, 297 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm. "Shown at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, November 5-December 31, 1988, and the Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, January 21-March 19, 1989"--Title page verso. …

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 158 pages : illustrations (predominantly color), color maps ; 31 cm. Summary:Bronze drums, urns and bells in the early metal age of Southeast Asia / Ian C. Glover -- Bronze sculptures of ancient Cambodia / Hiram Woodward -- A technical study of the Kompong Cham figure group / Paul Jett -- Angkorian metalwork in the temple setting : icons, architectural adornment and ritual paraphernalia / John Guy Published on the occasion of an exhibition held at the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, May 15, 2010-Jan. 23, 2011; and the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, Feb. 22-Aug. 14, 2011. - Includes bibliographical references.…

First Edition. Fine copy in the original colour printed boards. Particularly and uncommonly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Literally as new, still in the publisher's original shrink wrap. Physical description; 303 pages : illustrations ; 32 cm. Summary; "Nine essays explore issues of conservation as well as cultural and historical significance of various objects in the largely unpublished collection of Norma Jean Calderwood Collection of Islamic Art. Topics include the influence of calligraphic line and physical gesture on Safavid drawings; figurative imagery on Iranian ceramics; and what cobalt pigment reveals about an object's origins." Subject; Calderwood, Norma Jean Art collections Exhibitions. 1 Kg.…

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Large softcover, very good. Many color plates. Book.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. pages 189-286, illustrations : 31 cm. INDEX of H. VANDERSTAPPEN and MARYLIN RHIE The Sculpture of T'ien Lung Shan: 189 Reconstruction and Dating 239 MICHAEL SULLIVAN Notes on Early Chinese Screen Painting R. NAGASWAMY Some Contributions of the Pandya to South Indian 265 Art A Kashmiri Lingam of the 10th Century 275 H. GOETZ BIBLIOGRAPHIA 280 F. W. Mote, The Poet Kao Ch'i, 1336-1374 Chu-tsing Li L. Bachhofer 282 In Memoriam Eduard Erkes A. C. Soper 283 Peter C. Swann, Chinese Monumental Art 285 Beatrice Laura Goff, Symbols of Prehistoric Mesopotamia M. J. Mellink.…

Soft cover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. pages 1-102, illustrations : 31 cm. INDEX ALEXANDER C. SOPER CHENG TE'K'UN Early, Middle, and Late Shang: A Note Some Standing Jade Figurines of the Shang-Chou Period STANLEY J.O'CONNOR Ritual Deposit Boxes in Southeast Asian Sanctuaries L.PREMATILLEKE The Identity and Significance of the Standing Figure at the Gal-vihara, Polonnaruva, Ceylon BIBLIOGRAPHIA Max Loehr, Relics of Ancient China Emma Bunker Andrew Boyd, Chinese Architecture and Town Planning: 1500 B.C.-A.D. 1911 Nelson I. Wu Edith Dittrich, Das Motiv des Tierkampfes in der Altchinesischen Kunst. Asiatische Forschungen Band 13 John F. Haskins William Watson, Handbook to the Collections of Early Chinese Antiquities Emma Bunker The Seligman Collection of Oriental Art, Vol. 2: Chinese and Korean Pot- tery and Porcelain by John Ayers Fong Chow Theodore Bowie, The Drawings of Hokusai Harald G. Henderson Kondo Ichitaro, Japanese Genre Painting; The Lively Art of Renaissance Japan. Translated by Roy Andrew Miller Ellen P. Conant. Sacheverell Sitwell, The Red Chapels of Banteai Srei and Temples in Cam- bodia, India, Siam and Nepal J.E. van Lohuizen-de Leeuw A. B. Griswold, Ch. Kim and P. H. Pott, Burma, Korea, Tibet Jane Gaston Mahler Alain Danielou, Hindu Polytheism. Bollingen Series LXXIII Agehananda Bharati James C. Harle, Temple Gateways in South India Aschwin Lippe Odette Viennot, Les Divinites Fluviales Ganga et Yamuna Stella Kramrisch The Art of Mughal India; painting and precious objects. Introduction, text and catalogue notes by Stuart C. Welch Basil Gray O. M. Dalton, The Treasure of the Oxus, with other Examples of early oriental metal-work R. Ghirshman W. Brandenstein u. M. Mayrhofer, Handbuch des Altpersischen Richard N. Frye.…

Soft cover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. pages 1-96, illustrations : 31 cm. INDEX GEORGE A. ROWLEY A Chinese Scroll of the Ming Dinasty "Ming Huang and Yang Kuei-fei listening to Music". With a Foreword and an Addendum by Alexander ALEXANDER C. SOPER C. Soper Some Late Chinese Bronze Images (Eight to Fourteenth Centuries) in the Avery Brundage Collection, M. H. De Young Museum, San Francisco SHERWOOD F. MORAN The Gilding of Ancient Bronze Statues in Japan LOUIS MALLERET Sur une défense d'éléphant sculptée ayant appartenu à M. Poivre P. BANERJEE A Siva Icon from Piandjikent.…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. pages 181-376, illustrations : 31 cm. INDEX E. LOUBO-LESNITCHENKO Chinese Silk Embroidery from Noin-Ula ELEANOR VON ERDBERG CONSTEN WON-YONG KIM The Deer in Early Chinese Art Bronze Mirrors from Shih-erh T'ai Ying-tzu, Liaoning A. B. GRISWOLD. Notes on the Art of Siam, No.6. Prince Yudhisthira A Bronze Buddha Image from Ceylon C. E. GODAKUMBURA Durga, Goddess of Victory. JAMES C. HARLE A Pre-Pala Sculpture and Its Significance for JOHN D. LAPLANTE the International Bodhisattva Style in Asia STELLA KRAMRISCH. Note on the Bodhisattva Image in the Stanford Museum JOHN D. LAPLANTE STELLA KRAMRISCH R. GHIRSHMAN H. D. SANKALIA Reply to Dr. Kramrisch's Note NOTE with reference to pages 290, 291 Notes Iraniennes XIII. Trois epees sassanides New Light on the Indo-Iranian or Western Asiatic Relations between 1700 BC.-1200 BC.…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. pages 241-331, illustrations : 31 cm. INDEX DIANA PYLE ROWAN RICHARD ETTINGHAUSEN M. K. DHAVALIKAR S. SETTAR The Yakushi Image and Shaka Trinity of the Kondo, Horyuji: A Study of Drapery Problems 2- Some Comments on Medieval Iranian Art (A propos the publication of The Cambridge History of Iran) 2 Sri Yugadhara - A Master-Artist of Ajanta 30 The Cult of Jvalamalini and the Earliest Images of Jvala and Syama.…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. pages 105-238, illustrations : 31 cm. INDEX FREDERICK M.ASHER PRAMOD CHANDRA The Former Broadley Collection, Bihar Sharif LEON HURVITZ HELEN B. CHAPIN ALEXANDER C.SOPER. MIYEKO MURASE A Vamana Temple at Marhia and some Reflections on Gupta Architecture Tsung Ping's Comments on Landscape Painting. 1 I A Long Roll of Buddhist Images. II. (Revised by Alexander C. Soper) A Problematical Chinese Bronze Vessel. The Ku that was "too good to be true" Farewell Paintings of China: Chinese Gifts to Japanese Visitors.…