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Hong Kong: [Orientations Magazine Ltd.], [199-]. Paper covers, 166 pp. ; 29 cm; Illustrated throughout, mostly in color. Glossy pictorial wrappers featuring a gilt bronze Shakyamuni Buddha (front cover) and a late Shang dynasty bronze rhinoceros vessel (back cover), both from the Avery Brundage Collection.
In very good condition with light bumping to edges and light overall scuffing and some fading to spine. Binding tight. Pages clean and unmarked. A compilation of sixteen scholarly articles originally published in Orientations magazine, focusing on objects and themes in the collection of the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco. Includes studies on Chinese calligraphy, ceramics, and lacquer; Tibetan and Korean Buddhist art; Japanese painting and lacquer; and Southeast Asian sculpture. Contributors include Rand Castile, Clarence F. Shangraw, Patricia Berger, So Kam Ng, Manni Liu, Terese Tse Bartholomew, Emma C. Bunker, Richard L. Mellott, Yoko Woodson, Yoshiko Kakudo, Nancy Tingley, and others. Contents include: The Asian Art Museum of San Francisco The Avery Brundage Collection; The Asian Art Museum of San Francisco's Collectors; 'In a Far-Off Country' Han Dynasty Art from South China; An Album of Ming Dynasty Calligraphy; Ming Dynasty Fan Painting and Calligraphy by Zou Zhilin; The P.Y. and Kinmay Wen Tang Memorial Gallery; Fifteenth Century Blue-and-White Porcelain; Chinese Lacquers; Botanical Puns in Chinese Art; Two Snakes and a Frog: A Warring States Period Bronze Belt Buckle from Eastern Inner Mongolia; Sino-Tibetan Art of the Qianlong Period; Tibetan Thangkas Relating to the Abbots of Ngor and Shalu; A Korean Painting of Avalokitesvara; Nanga Paintings from the Harry G.C. Packard Collection; Looking Beyond Surface Embellishment: Themes in Later Japanese Lacquers; Central and Eastern Javanese Sculpture; Looking at Asian Art Patronage: Some Cross-sectional Views.