Chinese Export Porcelain In North America

New York: Clarkson N. Potter, Inc, 1986. Hardcover. VG-/VG-, minor soiling to cover and wear to DJ. Blue cloth, color illustrated dustjacket. 300 pp. 417 photographs of which 250 are in color. Extensively researched and well-illustrated reference to Chinese exports to the United States, Canada and Mexico from the late sixteenth to the early twentieth centuries. Sections include: The Nature and Variety of Chinese Porcelains; Manila Galleons to Mexico; Trade Triangles in the Atlantic; English Hegemony in the Eighteenth Century; A Shared Dutch and English Style; Trade to the United States and Canada; and A Style for the United States. Appendices discuss marks, gilt porcelains, shipwrecks, archaeological sites, and selected museums and collections in the west. Extensive concordance. An important reference. (Inventory #: 105314)