The Choice of the Private Trader: The Private Market in Chinese Export Porcelain Illustrated in the Hodroff Collection

Howard, David S.& John Ayers

ISBN 10: 0302006427 / ISBN 13: 9780302006429

Published by Zwemmer, London, 1994

About this Item

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.

Seller Inventory # 013905

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Choice of the Private Trader: The Private Market in Chinese Export Porcelain Illustrated in the Hodroff Collection
• Publisher: Zwemmer, London
• Publication Date: 1994
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0302006427
• ISBN 13: 9780302006429
• Binding: Hard Cover
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Signed: Signed by Author
• Seller catalogs:
  • European Decorative Arts (Pre 1900)

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Synopsis

The Private Trade in Chinese Export porcelain, as distinct from East India Company trade, has hitherto scarcely been recoginised as a subject in its own right. And yet the officers and supercargoes of the Hon. East India Company took full advantage of their license to trade on their own account; it is just this attractive and innovative ware, chosen by them at their own capital risk, that is most collected today. David S. Howard surveys more than two centuries of manufacture, and throws new light on how the trade was actually conducted. The Hodroff collection, the largest and most comprehensive of its kind in the world, closely mirrors the tastes of the private traders and is the ideal source of illustration for this pioneering work.