Current List 207A

Aczel, Amir D:
- THE JESUIT & THE SKULL

Adams, Edward B:
- KYONGJU GUIDE

Akiyama, T. et al:
- ARTS OF CHINA I-III

ALBUM OF EROTIC CHINESE PAINTINGS

Ambolt, Nils:
- RELATIVE SCHWERKRAFTSBESTIMMUNGEN MIT PENDELN IN ZENTRALASIEN

ANCIENT CHINA'S TECHNOLOGY AND SCIENCE

Andrews, Roy Chapman:
- ENDS OF THE EARTH
- EXPLORATIONS IN MONGOLIA: A REVIEW OF THE CENTRAL ASIATIC EXPEDITIONS OF THE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY

Ang See, Teresa et al ed:
- TSINOY

Anhui Province Cultural Group:
- SHOUXIAN CAIHOU MU CHUTU YIWU
(Cultural Relics Unearthed from Caihou's Tomb in Shouxian) 壽縣蔡侯墓出土遺物.

Argence, Rene-Yvon Lefebvre d':
- CHINESE TREASURES FROM THE AVERY BRUNDAGE COLLECTION

Arlington, L. C. & Lewisohn, William:
- IN SEARCH OF OLD PEKING

Atchley, Virginia and Neil K. Davey:
- THE VIRGINIA ATCHLEY COLLECTION OF JAPANESE MINIATURE ARTS

Aurora Art Museum:
- YUAN QINGHUA CI JIANSHANG
Appreciation of the Yuan Blue and White Porcelains 元青花瓷鑑賞 。 宸旦藝術博物館.

Avitabile, Gunhild:
- EARLY MASTERS

Ayers, John:
- THE BAUR COLLECTION - JAPANESE CERAMICS

GGJD25
Gugong Museum: GUGONG JINGDIAN: QINGGONG HAICUO TU. Classics of the Forbidden City: Catalogue of Marine Creatures Collected in the Qing Palace. 故宮經典 ： 清宮海錯圖 。 文金祥 主編. Beijing, 2014. 306 pp. Full page colour plates throughout. 29x29 cm. Boards.
GBP 100.00
Large-format publication reproducing the first three volumes of a beautiful and unique four-volume album, the Haicuo Tu' (Illustrations of Marine Creatures), painted in 1699 in the Kangxi reign of the Qing dynasty by the court artist, Nie Huang. The work apparently also drew on western sources but much more research remains to be done on this aspect. The three volumes illustrated are held in the Gugong Museum in Beijing. The fourth volume is in the National Palace Museum in Taibei. A total of 371 marine creatures (both real and mythical) are shown in 155 paintings, reproduced here in good-sized full page colour plates (albeit in a somewhat reduced size to the original work) that allow full appreciation of the images and painter's skill. The work was highly-valued by later Qing emperors, in particular, Qianlong. Extensive descriptions and essays on the importance of the album accompany. In Chinese.
Subjects: Painting Natural History
Item 473 in List 207.
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