Author: DULKINA, TATIANA AND NATALYA GRIGORIEVA
Title: Gzhel Pottery 18th to 20th Centuries [Mostly in Russian Language]
Description: Russia?, 1988. Hardcover. ISBN: 5737000516. Hardcover is grey with blue ceramic urn or samovar (? ) on front, blue lettering on spine. White endpapers. Pages are clean and tight. Title page is in English and Russian/Cyrillic. Lavishly illustrated with 179 color and b/w photographs. At the back of the book the photographs are listed and described in English and Russian. Table of contents is at the rear [right side] of the book. The 4 page summary at the rear is in English. 'Not far from Moscow there is a group of about 30 villages under the name of Gzhel, whch has long since been famous for its white-burning clay...The place has become a center of folk pottery and has played a specific part in the history of Russian ceramic arts....Another peculiarity of Gzhel pottery painting came from the potters' perception of these vessels as bilateral pieces, hence either face had a decoration of its own..." Extremely scarce book on a genre of ceramics not well known in the West. ISBN in book is 5737000516, oversized, 3#. ; B & W and Color photographs; 8 1/2 x 10 1/2; 213 pages; Hardcover has light bumping and shelfwear. DJ has rubbing/scuffing, shelf wear, bumping, some minor nicks and tiny tears; in a mylar cover.. Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket .

Keywords: 5737000516 Russia; Russian History; Soviet Union History; Ceramic Arts; Ceramics; Clay; Cultural History; Cultural Anthropology; Social History; Cultural History Education European History Art Furniture/Interiors/Decorating Antiques/Collectibles Business/


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