SMM231 - NEW BOOK Shenzhen Museum ed: CHENG NING ZHUO SHUO: SICHOU ZHI LU SHANG DE GUDAI BOLI YISHU. Lustrous Translucent Glass: Ancient Glass Art on the Silk Road. 澄凝灼烁:絲綢之路上的古代玻璃藝術. Beijing, 2023. 305 pp. Colour plates throughout. 29x21 cm. Boards. GBP 180.00 Catalogue of an impressive loan exhibition at the Shenzhen Museum showing extremely fine examples of ancient glass from sites along the length of the Silk Road from the Mediterranean through the Near and Middle East, Central Asia and on into China. The examples dates from the 16th century BC through to the 10th century AD. A total of 325 exhibits from the Hirayama Ikuo Silk Road Museum in Japan. Preface, captions to plates and afterword in English. Detailed texts in Chinese. Very hard to obtain. The Museum has retained the large majority of the print run. Subjects: Glass Silk Road Item 17 in List 210. URL for this record: hanshan.com/?s/SMM231.HTM Record produced by Hanshan Tang Books, www.hanshan.com. |