Author: Howard, D.
Title: The Choice of the Private Trader - The Private Market in Chinese Export Porcelain illustrated from the Hodroff Collection (SIGNED COPY)
Description: London. Zwemmer. 1994. First edition. Quarto. Cloth. Gift inscription by the Hodroffs. Near fine. Near fine. 298 Pages, 343 colour photographs. With a gift inscription by Leo & Doris Hodroff to Crosby Forbes. One of the most important works published on Chinese export porcelain. The porcelain is divided into six groups according to use: dinner services, tea and coffe sets, drinking vessels, personal and everyday utensils, decorative vases, and human and animal figures. A very interesting work on Chinese export pocelain from the library of H.A. Crosby Forbes, former curator of the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem inscribed by the collectors.

Keywords: china chinese pottery porcelain ceramics export trade hodroff