Author: Castro, Nuno de
Title: Chinese Porcelain and the Heraldry of the Empire
Description: 1988, (24 x 31,5 cm), 266 pp., English, 230 colour ills, hardcover and dustjacket. Numbered & signed by the author. ¶ This book is an important reference work on Chinese armorial porcelain, made during the Ming and Qing dynasties on order of the Portuguese and Brazilian royalty, noblemen, clergy and merchants. It tells the vast and important history of the Portuguese fleets and trade with the Chinese from 1497 untill 1850. Mr. Nuno de Castro is the authority on Portuguese Armorial Porcelain. This is a very scarce book and important for anyone who is interested in Portuguese history through armorial porcelain.

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