Chinese Pottery of the Han Dynasty (publication of the East Asiatic Committee of the American Museum of Natural History - the Jacob H. Schiff Chinese Expedition)
Tientsin, China: E.J. Brill, 1940. Later printing. Hardcover. Octavo; xvi, 339pp. Copiously illustrated with 75 photographic plates and 55 in-text illustrations. Good only in brown cloth (not a pretty copy with some staining to covers and paper adhered to rear; contents Very Good). Item #17727
'The author not only describes the pieces of Han pottery brought home by him from China, but examples of Han pottery in the possession of public museums and private collectors. The description of the pieces, however, is but a prelude to an exhaustive discussion of the culture of the Han dynasty as illustrated by its pottery...' (Edward S. Morse in American Anthropologist).
Price: $150.00