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木趣居：家具中的嘉具 【Books from Asia】The Best of The Best：The MQJ Collection of Ming Furniture
Beijing: SDX Joint Publishing Company, 2017. Hardcover. 7.3 x 9.5", 2 vols., 520 pp., 1091 plates, text in Chinese and English, catalog of 112 pieces, bibliography, cloth, slipcase, Beijing, 2017. MQJ, abbreviated from Mu Qu Ju, is the name chosen by renowned scholar Wang Shixiang for this special Ming Furniture..... More
Substance and Symbol in Chinese Toggles: With a Catalogue of the C.F. Bieber Collection
Floating World Editions, 2006. Although the Japanese belt ornaments known as netsuke have long been popular with collectors and much written about, the Chinese toggles which preceded them have gone little noticed. Professor Cammann's long out of print work was the first book in any Western language to discuss them..... More
A Thousand Cranes: Treasures of Japanese Art
Chronicle Books, 1987. HB. The Japanese crane, a most auspicious symbol in Japan, has figured importantly in Japanese culture and art since ancient times, appearing over the centuries in almost every possible medium as a universal sign of goodwill. The title "A Thousand Cranes" is a metaphor for the spiritual..... More