Photograph album containing photographs of Chinese ceramics

Photograph album of John Sparks Ltd, dealer in Chinese art (London) -containing 96 black and white studio photographic prints of Chinese ceramics, including vases, bowls, libation cups, dishes, human and animal figurines, snuff bottles, brush pots, roof tiles and incense burners. Styles featured inc...

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Archive & Special Collections JSP/13/02/04 Open

Order number: JSP, Box 41
Date(s) of creation: 1950s
Level: Item
Format: Archive           

collection SOAS Archive
id JSP.13.02.04
recordtype archive
scb_item_location Archive & Special Collections
item_location Archive & Special Collections
scb_loan_type Reference only
scb_order_with JSP, Box 41
callnumber JSP/13/02/04
callnumber_txt JSP/13/02/04
callnumber-sort JSP/13/02/04
prefix_number 04
title Photograph album containing photographs of Chinese ceramics
scb_date_creation 1950s
scb_level Item
level_sort 8/Collection/Sub-Collection/Sub-Sub-Collection/Sub-Sub-Sub-Collection/Series/Sub-Series/Sub-Sub-Series/File/Item
scb_extent 1 volume
format Archive
description Photograph album of John Sparks Ltd, dealer in Chinese art (London) -containing 96 black and white studio photographic prints of Chinese ceramics, including vases, bowls, libation cups, dishes, human and animal figurines, snuff bottles, brush pots, roof tiles and incense burners. Styles featured include ceramics in Dehua ware or Blanc de Chine, Fujian ware or Fukien ware, famille-rose, famille verte, Cizhou ware or Tz'u-chou ware, and earthenware. Periods of origin featured include ceramics from the Qing (Qianlong, Kangxi, Yongzheng, Daoguang), Sung, Tang, Han, Ming, dynasties. Prints include typescript annotations, some have handwritten annotations indicating that the artwork was exhibited at the Centennial Marco Polo exhibition, 7th, 1954 Venice, Italy. 17 pages contain caption but no print. 1 volume. 111 pp. (loose). Disbound. Cardboard endpapers. No cover.
scb_access_status Open
language English
language_search English
scb_physc_charac_tech_reqs Conservation work undertaken on the volume in 2018. Red leather cover removed due to red rot degradation.
hierarchy_top_id_raw JSP
hierarchy_sequence JSP.0013.0002.0004

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