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拍卖年鉴: 骨董 2013: 2012.1.1 - 2012.12.31
华艺文化
Chinese Arts Auction Records: 2013 Antiques 1/1/12 - 12/31/12
Chinese Arts Auction Records
This volume compiles year 2012 auction results from auction houses around the world, including Christie's (worldwide), Sotheby's (worldwide), China Guardian, Bonhams & Butterfield, among others. Divided into 8 sections: pottery and ceramics, jade carving, bronze, sculpture, Tibetan Arts, ...
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Zangdok Palri: The Lotus Light Palace of Guru Rinpoche
Lamsam, Supawan Pui & Wangchuck, Kesang Choden Tashi
Zangdok Palri, the Glorious Copper-Colored Mountain, is the manifestation of the celestial paradise of Guru Rinpoche or Padmasambhava, the "Second Buddha" of TIbetan Buddhism and great tantric master who brought Buddhism from India to Tibet. Atop this mountain lies the majestic Lotus Light ...
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Accompanying Commentary by Rosemary Bandini
In A Nutshell: A Loan Exhibition of Japanese Netsuke from European Collections
4th April - 31st May 2013
International Netsuke Society and The Embassy of Japan in the United Kingdom
An exhibition to celebrate almost 150 years of netsuke collecting in Europe, from the eponymous The Hare with Amber Eyes (featured in this display) of Edmund de Waal’s family memoir, to contemporary
netsuke by three British carvers. The show offers a unique opportunity to enjoy and learn ...
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Masterful Images: The Art of Kiyoshi Saito
Till, Barry
The art of Kiyoshi Saito takes us into a modest Japanese village, rows of traditional woodframe houses separated by persimmon trees and flower gardens. People come and go on foot, and for long stretches of the year snow piles heavily on roadsides and rooftops. Saito (1907—1997) was born in Aizu, ...
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Tenth-Century China and Beyond: Art and Visual Culture in a Multi-centered Age
Wu, Hung
The tenth century was a period of extensive change in East Asia, in which China was divided into regional kingdoms with the fall of the Tang dynasty in 907 and powerful northern empires, the Khitan Liao and Koryo dynasty, arose. Though historically regarded as a period declining into ...
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Korean Lacquer Art: Aesthetic Perfection
Frick, Patricia & Jung, Soon-Chim & Hwang, Jihyun & Kobayashi, Koji & Pruch, Margarete & Wahlen, Kyuhee
Korean lacquer art is prized for its artistic and technical perfection and its specific, distinctive aesthetics. The works of the Goryeo (918–1392) and the Joseon (1392–1910) dynasties, with their mother-of-pearl inlays, serve as particularly vivid examples of the ingenious manufacturing ...
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A Meaniful Guide to the Scientific Authentication of Asian Antiquities
Roy, Melanie A. & Teller IV, Michael C.
This valuable guide offers information on more than a dozen scientific testing and examination techniques used in the authentication of artifacts and the detection of forgeries. While Asian antiquities are used as examples, the techniques discussed may be applied to art and artifacts from ...
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Samurai Stars of the Stage and Beautiful Women: Kunisada and Kuniyoshi Masters of the Color Woodblock Print
Cantz, Hatue
Edited by Gunda Luyken, Beat Wismer. Text by Claudia Delank, Bernd Jesse, Gunda Luyken, Bianca Raitz, Stephan von der Schulenburg, Christina Voit.
In the early 1960s, what was then the Kunstmuseum Düsseldorf received a large gift of Japanese woodcuts (Ukiyo-e), a gift to which the donor would ...
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