SMM242 - NEW BOOK Shenzhen Museum ed: TIANFU YIZHEN: SICHUAN SONGDAI YAOCANG WENWU JINGPIN. (Vestiges of Heavenly Palaces: Song Dynasty Cultural Masterpieces Excavated from Pits in Sichuan). 天府遺珍:四川宋代窯藏文物精品. Beijing, 2024. 175 pp. Colour plates throughout, a good number full page. One foldout. 29x21 cm. Boards. GBP 90.00 Catalogue of a truly excellent exhibition held at the Shenzhen Museum in China showing caches of wonderful Southern Song dynasty ceramics, silver, gold and bronzes found in a number of cellars and pits in Sichuan province. Testament to the sophistication of south-west China at the time. Whilst the ceramics are truly beautiful, it is the gold and silver and bronzes that are of most note and there are a good number of exceptional pieces that make this a good and useful contribution to the sparse literature regarding Song bronzes and metalwork. Illustrated throughout in colour. Text in Chinese. Subjects: Ceramics Bronzes Item 13 in List 212. URL for this record: hanshan.com/?s/SMM242.HTM Record produced by Hanshan Tang Books, www.hanshan.com. |