Antiques & Collectibles Porcelain & China
Dragons, Tigers and Bamboo
Japanese Porcelain and Its Impact in Europe; The MacDonald Collection
- Publisher
- Douglas & McIntyre
- Initial publish date
- Oct 2009
- Category
- Porcelain & China, Asian
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Hardback
- ISBN
- 9781553654346
- Publish Date
- Oct 2009
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Description
A lavishly illustrated volume on Japanese porcelain from one of the world's finest collections.
Dragons, Tigers and Bamboo highlights 170 masterpieces from the Macdonald Collection at the Gardiner Museum of Ceramic Art in Toronto. This extraordinary collection illustrates many different aspects of the historical interaction between Japanese and European porcelain during the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries. It is the best cross-cultural porcelain collection in Canada and among the best of its kind in the world.
Illustrated with more than 160 full-colour photographs commissioned for this volume, Dragons, Tigers and Bamboo makes the Macdonald Collection accessible for the first time to an international audience.
About the authors
Oliver Impey (1936-2005) was curator of Eastern art at the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, until 2002. Author or contributor to more than thirty books, including Porcelain for Palaces and The Early Porcelain Kilns of Japan, Impey advised the Macdonalds on the formation of their collection.