SAM001 Emerson, Julie; Jennifer Chen and Mimi Gardner Gates: PORCELAIN STORIES. From China to Europe. Seattle, 2000. 318 pp. c. 300 colour plates and figures, c. 150 small b/w plates with details of marks. Appendixes, glossary, notes, bibliography, index. 28x25 cm. Cloth. GBP 20.00 Splendid - well-illustrated and authoritative - catalogue of an exhibition which examines the history of porcelain from its beginnings in China, but particularly concentrating on the export porcelain which had a world-wide impact through trade, while, in the West, it spurred an enthusiasm for collecting which continues to the present day. Fine Chinese examples are juxtaposed with their European descendants. Subjects: Ceramics Export Art Item 36 in List 205. URL for this record: hanshan.com/?e/SAM001.HTM Record produced by Hanshan Tang Books, www.hanshan.com.