LZB241 - NEW BOOK Liangzhu Museum ed: YI ZI SUN: HANDAI YUQI JICUI. Blessings for Prosperity. 宜子孫:漢代玉器集萃. Shanghai, 2025. 2, 435 pp. Full page colour plates throughout. A couple of foldouts. 31x25 cm. Cloth. GBP 280.00 Large and weighty commemorative catalogue of a firmly focussed loan exhibition at the Liangzhu Museum in China's Zhejiang province showing exceptional and rare Han dynasty Chinese jades. A total of 175 exhibits, the large majority shown full size or larger than life to allow full appreciation and to show close-up detail. Excellent colour plates. These wonderful objects loaned from museums throughout China. Also shows a number of necklaces with beads of glass, jade and crystal. Illustrated throughout with full page colour plates. Text in Chinese. An excellent addition to the literature on the subject, the jades having impeccable provenance. Site of excavation stated. Hard to obtain. Subjects: Jade Archaeology Item 4 in List 213. URL for this record: hanshan.com/?l/LZB241.HTM Record produced by Hanshan Tang Books, www.hanshan.com. |