Chinese Traditional Auspicious Patterns
Softcover
1989 · Shanghai
by Li, Zuding (Editor)
Shanghai: Shanghai Popular Science Press, 1989. Softcover. Good+ with clean, tight contents, light general shelf wear to covers, foxing to all 3 sides of page edges when closed but no bleed onto page faces.. Brown/gold-illus. glossy wraps with red stripe and Chinese lettering. White spine with Chinese lettering. French flaps. Decorative pink end papers. 216 pp. with 18 color images and 183 bw illustrations. Dual text, Chinese/English. A lovely book of 183 bw line drawings of traditional Chinese patterns. The color illustrations in the beginning show that these patterns could be used on ceramics, in sculpting, on screen painting, enamels, textiles, and many more types of Chinese art/design. A very useful book for the collector, art student or professor, designer, decorator, or lover of Chinese/Asian style. Each pattern is clearly rendered and annotated. (Inventory #: 155713)