David Howard John Ayers (39 results)

Condition: Very Good. Very Good condition. A copy that may have a few cosmetic defects. May also contain light spine creasing or a few markings such as an owner's name, short gifter's inscription or light stamp.

Condition: Good. First Edition. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Dust jacket has 2 inch tear to spine in back at top. Pages of text are clean, bright and free of markings. Binding is tight and secure. ***Shipped within 24 hours from the beautiful Baltimore inner harbor area. First class service; accurate descriptions. Most items packed in boxes, not envelopes.***.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good-. VG- softcover with minor shelwear. Bumped corners, faint scratches, light edgewear. Clean pages, firm binding. Nice color photo graphs of items in collection. ; Color Photographs; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 80 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Condition: Very Good. Very Good condition. Very Good dust jacket. (Chinese Porcelain, Ceramics, Pottery) In protective mylar cover. A copy that may have a few cosmetic defects. May also contain light spine creasing or a few markings such as an owner's name, short gifter's inscription or light stamp.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Very good+ in very good+ dust jacket (in protector) ; Blue hardcover binding, color photos; 4to; 80 pages.

First Edition. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dw. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered.; 80 pages; Description: 80 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 28 cm. Subjects: Mottahedeh, Rafi --Art collections --Virginia Museum of Fine Arts--China trade porcelain--Catalogs. 3 Kg.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 466 lots. 234 pages. Softcover in excellent condition with some very light shelf wear to cover. Inside clean and binding tight.

Softcover. Condition: VG. Dark taupe wraps. 80 pp. 62 color plates.

First Edition. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dw. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered.; 80 pages; Description: 80 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 28 cm. Subjects: Mottahedeh, Rafi --Art collections --Virginia Museum of Fine Arts--China trade porcelain--Catalogs. 1 Kg.

hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Hardcover. Very Good condition. NO DUST JACKET. Free of any markings and no writings inside. Clear Text. Minor shelf-wear. For any additional information or pictures, please inquire.

Hardback. 1980. 9 x 11 inches with many color illustrations. 80 Very good. Three short lines of ink ownership. In a very good, price clipped dust wrapper.

hard cover with dust jacket. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st edition. Illustrated with colour photographs. 28 cm. 80 pages Near fine book in near fine dust jacket, as new condition.

Hardbound. Blue boards w/ taupe pictorial DJ, 80 pp. 62 color plates. Collection catalog; introduction tells the story of the export of Chinese porcelain over the last two thousand years and examines the historic, economic, and artistic factors contributing to its spectacular popularity in eighteenth-century Europe and, later, in America. VG, slight wear to the edges of DJ.

Paperback. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: no dj. Masterpieces of Chinese Export Porcelain. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. hardback book and dust jacket in fine condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. English text; Hardcover (cloth with dust jacket); 23 x 28.5 cm; 0.758 Kg; 80 pages with colour illustrations.; Used book in very good condition with minor signs of wear in the dust jacket; Catalogue for the exhibition at the Virginia Museum of the collection of Mr and Mrs Mottahedeh of New York, where it was shown for the first time; The sixty-two masterpieces of Chinese export porcelain, illustrated here in full colour, have been selected from one of the finest collections of the century to give a representative view of these wares in all their different styles. The introduction which precedes them tells the story of the export of Chinese porcelain over the last two thousand years and examines the historic, economic and artistic factors contributing to its spectacular popularity in eighteenth-century Europe and, later, in America. Over the last fifty years, Mr and Mrs Mottahedeh of New York amassed a huge assembly of this ware, which in depth and variety is unprecedented.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Masterpieces of Chinese Export Porcelain from the Mottahedeh Collection in the Virginia Museum. By David Howard and John Ayers. Published by Sotheby Parke Bernet Publications, 1981. 62 masterpieces in full colour. Plus introduction to the history and development of Chinese export porcelain. Blue cloth hardback with dustjacket. Very good condition. 80pp. Dimensions: 282mm high x 227mm wide x 12mm deep.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. This is a very good hardcover copy with a very good dust jacket with just light cover wear. Dust jacket spine sunned a bit. Signed in ink, by the author, David Howard, on the front endpaper. Not inscribed, just signed. Otherwise completely clean. Illustrated throughout in color with 350 illust. 11" high X 8" wide, 298 pages. This book will be securely wrapped and packed in a sturdy box and shipped with tracking. Signed by Author.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. With a foreword by Nelson Rockefeller! This volume, the second of two, covers armorial and personal porcelain, porcelain made for India, and the American trade., Folio, navy cloth. Pp.359 - 698 with photographs (some colour) and descriptions of more than 300 items.

First edition hard back binding in publisher's original blue cloth covered boards, blocked and lettered gilt back. 4to. 11'' x 8½''. Contains 80 pp with 60 colour plates throughout. Fine condition book in Fine condition dust wrapper, not price clipped. Member of the P.B.F.A. CERAMICS & POTTERY.

Hardcover. Condition: new. New Copy. Customer Service Guaranteed.

Hardcover. Condition: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!

Hardcover. Condition: Good. VOLUME I ONLY. No jacket. General shelf/reading wear. Pages/boards clean.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. hardback, two volume set, together in a slipcase. Folios, measuring 13 1/4" x 9 1/2". Stamp of a previous owner (antique shop) at the head of the front free endpapers, the contents otherwise clean and unmarked and the binding tight. The pictorial dust jackets chipped and with small losses to the head of the spines, now protected in non-adhesive archival film sleeves. The slipcase has splash marking to the bottom corner on one panel. A very heavy set which may attract a request for additional postage if ordered from certain locations outside the United Kingdom.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. English text; Hardcover (two hardcover volumes in buckram bound with dust jackets in splicase. Gilted upper side of the text block on both volumes); 25.6 x 35 cm; 5.3 Kg; 704 pages with 103 colour plates and 100 monochrome illustrations; Used books with signs of wear, namely on the dust jackets that show minor wear marks throughout and edge wear on both volumes. Interior in very good condition with minor signs of wear, some pages at the bottom right side on volume 2 show signs of have been bent in the past. The slipcase has signs of wear throughout, namely a few wear marks on the bottom, a bumped corner also at the bottom and two small pen marks in one of the sides. Very good condition overall.; This century has brought a growing awareness of the vast scale of Chinese export of decorative arts from the seventeenth century onwards. Until very recently however this subject had been very little studied, overshadowed as it was by the ever-widening perspectives of China's ancient past. It was nevertheless through this trade, and especially its ceramic wares, that the unique artistic creativity of the Chinese first became widely known and appreciated. This book aims to provide the most detailed and penetrating analysis yet made of the porcelains produced for Western markets during these centuries examining in its seven hundred pages and as many illustrations (one hundred of them in colour) all their many-sided attractions. The often unusual forms of the porcelain, their decorative styles and traditions, the endlessly varying subjects that they portray - and above all the continuous interchange in such themes between the Chinese manufacturers and decorators and their distant clients in the West, by means of the historic trading companies - all these are studied and interpreted more fully, and tabulated more practically for reference than ever before. The work also examines other export goods - painted enamels, carvings in ivory or soapstone, and reverse paintings on glass, to name only a few - which are represented by notable pieces. The material illustrated here is from one of the greatest collections of expert porcelain: assembled with care over nearly fifty years, it contains much that is rare or unique. Mr. and Ms. Motteheded have collected with clear-sighted purpose from the start, in a way no museum can hope to do so, so that today the wealth of rarities in their collection is matched only by its comprehensiveness, providing an ideal foundation for such a study. The authors are well equipped to write a major work on this subject, John Ayers, Keeper of the Far Eastern Section at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, is a noted authority on Chinese and Japanese ceramics whose numerous writings include four volumes on the Baur Collection (Geneva, 1968-74). David Howard's book Chinese Armorial Porcelain (London, 1974) has given an entirely new emphasis in the study of export porcelain, its design and dating, as well as the social history behind the great East India Companies. With its superb illustrations and analytical, yet highly readable text, this book offers an indispensable new source of information for the student and the collector.