Asian Art Online Auction

April 25, 2013

LOT 40

Lot 40

Group of 12 Books on Chinese Art

Group of 12 Books on Chinese Art
Lot 40 Details
Group of 12 Books on Chinese Art

Cohn, William. Chinese Painting. London: Phaidon Press Ltd., 1948.;Fei, Chai et. al. Indigo Prints of China. Peiking: Foreign Languages Press, 1956.; Fleming, Daniel Johnson. Christian Symbols in a World Community. New York: Friendship Press, 1940.; Frankfort, Henri. The Art and Architecture of the Ancient Orient. London: Penguin Books, 1956.; Gray, Basil. Early Chinese Pottery and Porcelain. London: Faber and Faber, 1953.; The Oriental Ceramic Society. Transactions of the Oriental Ceramic Society, 1948-1949. London: The Oriental Ceramic Society, 1949.; Priest, Alan. Aspects of Chinese Painting. New York: The MacMillan Company, 1954.; Rowley, George. Principles of Chinese Painting. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1947.; Sullivan, Michael. The Birth of Landscape Painting in China. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1962.; White, William Charles. Chinese Temple Frescoes: A Study of Three Wall-paintings of the Thirteenth Century. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1940.; White, William Charles. Tomb Tile Pictures of Ancient China. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1939.; White, W.C. Bronze Culture of Ancient China. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1956.
largest 12.2" x 8.3" x 2" — 31 x 21 x 5 cm.

Estimate $100-$150

Realised: $48
Price Includes Buyer's Premium ?

Lot Report

Provenance:

From the Estate of Reverend Beverly Burwell, a Canadian Anglican minister and missionary in China in the 1930's.

CONDITION DETAILS

overall wear and usage to dust jackets, books in good condition, but have been used

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