High Lights on Chinese Porcelain, Richard Carlyle, B. Manheim Galleries, 1939, VG

Carlyle, Richard Frederic. High Lights on Chinese Porcelain (New Orleans, LA: B. Manheim Galleries, 1939).

English, Very Good, HC, 8vo, 8 3/4" x 6," 72 pp., including Bibliography, + plates.

ISBN: N/A

Re-bound. Very Good blue cloth-covered boards backed with black cloth or leather, small red and black illustration tipped in on front, no lettering to spine. Covers have black tape repair on top and bottom edges, fraying and separation of cloth from boards along edges, and light rubbing and fading, else clean and intact. Pages have age toning, else clean and intact. Replete with black-and-white full-page plates showing Chinese porcelain. Charming exhibition catalogue published on the occasion of a show at B. Manheim Galleries in New Orleans. The show featured Chinese porcelain in the United States. Text provides a concise overview of Chinese porcelain such as different types ("hard paste," "soft paste," and "soapstone"); the manufacturing process; glazing and decoration; crackleware; timeline of Chinese dynasties, emperors, and periods; Sung Dynasty and its porcelain; Sung celadon porcelain and various glazes; the Yuan Dynasty, Ming Dynasty, Qing Dynasty and their respective porcelains, symbols and motifs; and potters' marks.