Description

Honolulu Academy of Arts, [Honolulu], [Published Date: 1982]. Softcover, 100 pp : black and white illustrations ; 27 cm. Catalog published in connection with the exhibition held from January 16 to February 14, 198 at the Honolulu Academy of Arts. In good+ condition with light bumping and creasing to edges of covers and light overall scuffing with a bit of the color scuffed off along edges. Binding tight. Pages clean and unmarked. Errata sheet pasted onto front free end paper. Features classic Chinese hardwood furniture, much of it Ming and Qing dynasty in style, drawn from private collections in Hawaii. Contents include: Foreword by James W. Foster; Preface and Acknowledgements by Robert Hatfield Ellsworth; Chinese Furniture: An Overview by Robert Hatfield Ellsworth; Dr. Gustave Ecke and Chinese Furniture in Hawaii by Howard A. Link; Connoisseurship of Chinese Furniture as Seen in Hawaiian Collections by Robert Hatfield Ellsworth; Catalogue by Robert Hatfield Ellsworth; Glossary of Technical Terms by Robert Hatfield Ellsworth and Howard A. Link; Bibliography.