Antique Pottery Porcelain - Dictionary of Types Makers Marks / Scarce Book

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THE DICTIONARY OF WORLD POTTERY AND PORCELAIN:  From Prehistoric Times to the Present
by Louise Ade Boger, Charles Scribner’s Sons, NY, 1971.
A leading reference on the identification of pottery and porcelain marks from around the world, this early out-of-print book provides extensive information on both marks as well as historical and biographical facts on the maker.   This in-depth text contains 2,200 entries which are alphabetized - supported by 150 drawings, 550 makers’ marks, 550 photographs with notes and 60 color plates.
This scholarly text is a compendium “spanning almost 7000 years.  The entries cover manufactories, companies and individual potters, modelers, painters, and engravers; periods and styles; decorative motifs and symbols; colors, processes of firing, glazing and decoration; terms and makers’ marks, all thoroughly cross-referenced.”  Coverage is, indeed, worldwide, involving Western and Eastern cultures and a complete history of both hemispheres.  A most comprehensive book, this text belongs in the permanent reference library of the collector, dealer or curator of international antique pottery and porcelain.
Heavy 8.25” x 11”  hardback with dust cover in very good condition.  533 pages.
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