The Great Heritage of Chinese Art

Peking or Shanghai, 1954. Hardbound. VG, Chinese characters on spine are supplemented by the English title written in small, thin white letters, along with the library call number. A very clean, tight exlibrary copy with a few stamps on ffep no other internal markings. Blue silk covered boards. 81 mostly bw plates; at least 2 color tipped-in. The first set of 12 plates illustrated 34 items from The Ancient Times, and are described both in Chinese and English prior to the plates. The second set of plates in this book (12 plates illustrating 30 items) represent the time period of The Western and Eastern Han Dynasties and the Three Kingdoms. The third set (14 plates illustrating 22 items) representing the time period of The Western and Eastern Tsin Dynasties and the Northern and Southern Dynasties. Part 4 (8 plates illustrating 11 items) covers the time period of The Sui Dynasty, the T'and Dynasty, and The Five Dynasties, Part 1. Part 5 (10 plates illustrating 9 items) covers the time period of The Sui Dynasty, the T'and Dynasty, and The Five Dynasties, Part 2. The sixth and final set (15 plates illustrating 15 items) represents the time period The Siung, Liao, and Kin Dynasties, Part 1. Some of the plates in this final section are not described or annotated in Section 6, but may be so described in a possible section 7 (which if it exists is not mentioned or included here, and has not appeared in my research on this book. It may be in a vol. 2 which was apparently published in 1956).