Photograph album containing photographs of Chinese ceramics

Photograph album of John Sparks Ltd, dealer in Chinese art (London) - containing 118 black and white studio photographic prints of Chinese and East Asian ceramics, including vases, bowls, cups, dishes, plates, human and animal figurines, ewers and incense burners. Styles featured include ceramics in...

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Archive & Special Collections JSP/13/02/05 Open

Order number: JSP, Box 42
Date(s) of creation: 1950s
Level: Item
Format: Archive           

collection SOAS Archive
id JSP.13.02.05
recordtype archive
scb_item_location Archive & Special Collections
item_location Archive & Special Collections
scb_loan_type Reference only
scb_order_with JSP, Box 42
callnumber JSP/13/02/05
callnumber_txt JSP/13/02/05
callnumber-sort JSP/13/02/05
prefix_number 05
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 118 black and white studio photographic prints of Chinese and East Asian ceramics, including vases, bowls, cups, dishes, plates, human and animal figurines, ewers and incense burners. Styles featured include ceramics in celadon Longquan or Lung-ch'uan greenware, Jian ware or Chien ware, Cizhou ware or Tz'u-chou ware, Guan ware or Kuan ware, unglazed pottery, as well as a smaller number of images of Japanese pottery, including Tenmoku ware and Korean porcelain, including Korai ware or Korean Mortuary Pottery. Periods of origin featured include ceramics from the Qing (including Qianlong, Yongzheng), Sung, Tang, Ming, Sui and Wei dynasties. Prints include typescript annotations, some have handwritten annotations indicating that the artwork was exhibited at the Oriental Ceramic Society or Centennial Marco Polo exhibition, 7th, 1954 Venice, Italy. 8 pages contain caption but no print.. 1 volume. 124 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 2016. Leather cover removed due to red rot degradation.
hierarchy_top_id_raw JSP
hierarchy_sequence JSP.0013.0002.0005

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