Hardcover
1982 · New York
by Coben, Lawrence A. and Dorothy C. Ferster
New York: Weatherhill, 1982. Hardcover. G- (Binding is soiled or aged around edges; dj has heavy edge wear and aging; text pages have aged consistently; plate pages are crisp and clean; contains multiple ownership notes incl. embossed stamp on tp; front hinge is taped inside.). Light gray stamped cloth, blue & illus. dust jacket, 324 pp., 171 BW illus., 158 color plates. "Cloisonne is an enamelware decoration made with colored glass enamels outlined in fine wires. Originating in ancient Greece, the cloisonne technique traveled across the Asian continent and to Japan, where it reached its apogee in refinement in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Today the study and collecting of Japanese cloisonne is growing more popular and becoming increasingly more important as a serious field of art and antique collecting. Interestingly, Japanese cloisonne was once spurned by most Japanese and Western collectors and museums as simply a curious and intricate aberration of the Japanese sensibility. But early connoisseurs realized that this hard-won and intractable art of molten glass is a very refined intrepretation of the ideals of Japanese art. And now, at last, here is an authoritative text on this rediscovered art. Students and collectors of Japanese art will find valuable information in this definitive history and appreciation of the art, its technology, and its aesthetics." (dj).
(Inventory #: 151869)