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1922 · 53665 — Paris: Albert Morancé 1922. First edition. Small Quarto. 2 31 3pp 40 plates 2 29 3pp. 44 plates. Original quarter blue cloth over tan boards string-tied portfolios with blue and light brown lettering on front and light brown vignettes on back covers. Title pages pages printed in blue and black with black decorative borders. Blue titles and blue decorative initials and end pieces in text parts.<br /> <br /> "The art of pottery in China doubless dates back to the remotest times; but its most ancient periods are only known through legends. Several specimens dating back to the Chou dynasty 1122-255 B.C. have been found in ancient tombs : they are hieratic shaped domestic utensils with symbolical ornaments. The real history of Chinese Ceramics begins only with the Han dynasty which brings us down to the beginning of the Christian era." Vasselot.<br /> <br /> Beautifully illustrated with fourty full page striking lithographic prints of Chinese ceramics. Volume one with twenty hand colored and twenty in b/w volume two with twenty-seven hand-colored seventeen in b/w. Both volumes contain images of marks on the porcelains reproduced in these volumes and descriptive lists of illustrations with measurements. Text parts in both volumes enclosed by illustrated advertisements on glossy paper. Albert Morancé unknown