[Rarebooks] FS: 1914 Japan Society Oriental Ceramics Catalog

[Joslin Hall Rare Books]

TITLE: “Chinese, Corean and Japanese Potteries. Descriptive Catalogue of
Loan Exhibition of Selected Examples”

By Rose Sickler Williams, R.L. Hobson, & Edward S. Morse.

Published in New York by The Japan Society in 1914.
Edition limited to 1500 copies.

DISCUSSION: 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.

DESCRIPTION: Hardcover. 10"x13",129 pages, 2 color and 25 black & white
plates.

CONDITION NOTES: Minor wear, cover corners worn, but otherwise clean and
nice, with a tight binding.

PRICE: $125.00

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