[Rarebooks] fs: Elegant 1914 Oriental Ceramics Catalog

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Williams, Rose Sickler, R.L. Hobson, & Edward S. Morse.  CHINESE, COREAN 
AND JAPANESE POTTERIES. Descriptive Catalogue of Loan Exhibition of 
Selected Examples.

New York; The Japan Society: 1914.
Edition limited to 1500 copies.

The elegant catalog of a major Japan Society loan exhibition at the 
Knoedler Galleries. The first half of the text consists of "A Report on the 
Keramic Wares of the Sung Dynasty" by Rose Sickler Williams, who had spent 
years in China when her husband, an American diplomat, was stationed there. 
Williams examined collections, kiln sites, shards and books, and 
interviewed many collectors and scholars on the subject. Her essay focuses 
on the Sung-era wares, as well as major and minor kilns.

This is followed by the catalog of the exhibition itself, which features 
brief introductions to the Japanese section by Edward S. Morse, of the 
Boston Museum of Fine Arts, and the Chinese/Korean section by R.L. Hobson, 
of the British Museum in London, who also catalogued those pieces; the 
descriptions of the Japanese pottery were prepared by Dana H. Carroll.

There were 100 pieces of Japanese pottery, drawn from the Samuel T. Peters 
Collection and the Freer Collection at the Smithsonian, as well as the 
collections of Howard Mansfield, Samuel Colman, and Harold G. Henderson. 
The Japanese pieces, as Morse points out, were chosen for their glazes 
rather than their gaudy decorations, which presented a refinement of 
Western taste in Japanese ceramic art from what it had been in previous 
decades.

The 172 pieces of Chinese pottery and 50 pieces of Korean pottery in the 
exhibition were drawn, for the most part, from the Peters and the Freer 
collections, and also from the collections of John Platt, Alfred N. 
Beadleston, and S. Yamanaka. The Korean were pieces from the Korai Period 
(936-1392), and were mostly excavated from tombs.

The handsome catalog was printed by the De Vinne Press on laid-style, 
deckle-edged paper, with crisp black & white plates and 2 beautiful color 
plates.

Hardcover. 10"x13",129 pages, 2 color and 25 b/w plates; light wear, a 
little cover soil, but a very nice copy.  [08099]  $100.00


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