History of Antique Porcelain - Types Makers Development / Illustrated Book

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THE HISTORY OF PORCELAIN
edited by Paul Atterbury, William Morrow and Company, Inc., NY, 1982.
”Clear authoritative writing combined with over 300 carefully researched illustrations make this book in itself a collector’s item for anyone who likes beautiful things and wants to know more about them.  This book calls upon the expertise of thirteen specialists to tell fully, for the first time, the story of porcelain from its beginnings in the Far East to its present position as a major industrial product.’
This book covers by chapter: Introduction; The Origins of Porcelain; Qing Dynasty Porcelain for the Domestic Market; Korean and Annamese Porcelain; Japanese Porcelain; China for the West; The Development of European Porcelain; Eighteenth-Century English Porcelain; The Development of Blue China; Porcelain of the Victorian Era; Popular Nineteenth-Century Porcelain; Art Porcelain; Twentieth-Century Studio Porcelain; Industrial Porcelain; and Forgeries and Deceptions.
9.1” x 11.7” hardback with dust cover in very good condition.  256 pages.
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