Author: Osaka Collection:
Title: The Eternal Beauty and Luster of Oriental Ceramics
Description: 2012, (19,4 x 26,2 cm), 240 pp. numerous ills., hardcover. ¶ Exhibition cataloque of the Museum of Oriental Ceramics, Osaka Collection in Japan. To celebrate the Museum of Oriental Ceramics, Osaka's 30th anniversary in 2012, this exhibition presents 140 oriental ceramics carefully selected from the approximately 4,000 items in the collection, including both of its national treasures and all thirteen of its important cultural properties. To the Japanese people, Chinese and Korean ceramics are the most familiar foreign ceramics from ancient times, and they have long exerted a major influence on Japanese ceramics. At times, Japanese lovers of ancient ceramics have become so transfixed by these works as to discover character or spirituality within them. From well-known masterpieces to rare gems made public for the first time in many years, this exhibition displays the beauty of oriental ceramics for all to discover.

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