[Rarebooks] fs: Scarce 1925 Chinese Jade book -Tanner Collection

[Joslin Hall Rare Books]

CHINESE JADE. Ancient and Modern. Descriptive catalogue, illustrating the 
most prominent pieces of a collection of jade articles, with special 
reference to sepulchral jades.

P. de Tanner.
Berlin; Dietrich Reimer / Ernst Vohsen: 1925.

Tanner was the Commissioner of the Chinese Maritime Customs Service, and 
collected a wide variety of antique Chinese jades while in China between 
1913 and 1919. Sinkankas comments-

          "One of the outstanding jade books, but not well
            known due to its rarity... Its text is meager and
            its principal value lies in the enormous variety
            of objects of which there are approximately
            2,000 portrayed upon the plates...".

Indeed. Tanner was an omnivorous rather than acutely discriminating 
collector, buying both fine and crudely made objects, in quartz, jadeite 
and hardstone as well as jade. There are pendants, discs, plaques, figures, 
axes, knives & swords, bells, vases, urns, musical instruments, 
mythological creatures- you name it, it's here.

Volume 2 includes 7 colored plates showing object which illustrate the wide 
variety of colors jade comes in. I would be remiss not to acknowledge that 
Sinkankas also notes-

        "As an encyclopedia of forms that imaginative
         Chinese lapidaries created from jade this book
         is worth whatever is asked for it".

2 volumes. Hardcover. 13"x9.5". Volume 1- 35 + 15 pages + 64 b/w plates 
with facing descriptive pages; Volume 2- 17 + 2 + 8 +3 pages, plus 53 b/w 
plates and 7 color plates, all with facing descriptive pages. Original 
cloth, respined with new leather spines; half-title to Vol. 1 torn in half 
and repaired; some cover wear and soil, a little internal soil. [02757] 
$1500.00

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