Description

Presented by the Urban Council, Hong Kong; organized by the Flagstaff House Museum of Tea Ware, a branch of the Hong Kong Museum of Art. Hong Kong: Urban Council, 1990. Hardcover, 249 pp ; 31 cm. Text in English and Chinese. Very good in very good dust jacket. Grey silk cloth covered boards with gold lettering on front and spine. Light bumping and scuffing to edges and corners of covers. Binding tight. Pages clean and unmarked. Dust jacket has a few small nicks and light bumping and creasing to edges. Light overall scuffing, fading and soiling to jacket as well. Now in an archival quality (removable) Brodart cover. Not Ex-library. Illustrated throughout with color and some black-and-white plates. Exhibition catalog for the traveling show held at the Phoenix Art Museum, Chinese Culture Center of San Francisco, Indianapolis Museum of Art, and the Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto. Contents include; Message from the Chairman, Urban Council, Hong Kong; Preface by Curator, Collections, Hong Kong Museum of Art; The Flagstaff House Museum of Tea Ware by K.S. Lo; Tea Drinking in China by Simon K.S. Chiu; A Concise History of Yixing Ware by Terese Tse Bartholomew; Yixing Ware in the Shanghai Museum by Wang Qingzheng; Yixing and the West by Donald Rabiner; Catalogue; Index; Appendix: Three Techniques of Making Yixing Teapots