CHINESE EXPORT PORCELAIN – AN HISTORICAL SURVEY
, edited by Elinor Gordon, Main Street/Universe Books, NY, 1975.
One of the most comprehensive texts on the subject, this rare book is an anthology  of authoritative articles written by the experts for
The Magazine Antiques
on Chinese export porcelain.  Lavishly illustrated in color and mostly black-and-white, this early out-of-print book provides an in-depth study of antique Chinese export porcelain – its history, production, makers, types, and more.
The anthology is divided into five sections, and brief comments on the articles found in these sections will be found at the beginning of each.  This book covers by chapter:
Lowestoft, What Is It?
:  Misapprehensions, Several Whys and Wherefores, Centers of Manufacture and a Classification, Biblical and Floral Designs, Genre Designs, Ship Designs;
General
:  Quality in Oriental Lowestoft, Lowestoft China, Crosscurrents in China Trade Porcelain, Chinese Porcelain Interchange, Oriental Porcelain Frivolities, Imitations of Chinese Lowestoft, and The Yesterday and Today of Oriental Lowestoft;
European Market
: Design Sources of Early China Trade Porcelain, Western Ceramic Models for China Trade Porcelain, Chinese Porcelain Figures of Westerners, Porcelain as Room Decoration in Eighteenth-Century England, Dutch Decorators of Chinese Porcelain, and German and English Decorators of Chinese Porcelain;
American Market
: Lowestoft-Exclusively American, American Eagle Lowestoft, American Ship Lowestoft, The Cincinnati and Their Porcelain, The Commodore Decatur Punchbowl, and A Lost Set of Eighteenth-Century Oriental Lowestoft;
Patterns and Designs
: Chinese Armorial Porcelain, Introduction to Heraldry, Collecting Armorial Export Porcelain, Fitzhugh and Fitzhugh in the China Trade, The Canton Pattern, and Rose Medallion and Mandarin Patterns in China Trade Porcelain.  There’s a wealth of information in this indispensable text.  This book belongs in the personal reference library of the student or advanced collector, dealer, or historian of Chinese export porcelain.
8.5” x 11” softback in very good condition. 175 pages plus 8 full-page color plates.
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