Author: Vainker, S.J.
Title: Chinese Pottery and Porcelain - From Prehistory to Present
Description: London. British Museum Press. 1991. First Edition. Octavo. Hard cover. Good. Crooked edges. 240 pages, With 100 colour and 98 b&w illustrations. A comprehensive survey of the development of ceramics from the Neolithic period to the present day. Assessing the roles pottery has played in each dynasty throughout the history of China, Vainker (curator, Dept. of Oriental Antiquities, British Museum) also discusses its enormous impact on the ceramic industries of the rest of the world, where Chinese porcelain has been admired and collected for centuries.

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