A Book of Porcelain: Fine examples in the Victoria & Albert Museum

Bernard Rackham

PREFACE

CONTENTS

LIST OF PLATES IN COLOUR

INTRODUCTORY

I CHINESE PORCELAIN

II JAPANESE PORCELAIN

III ITALIAN PORCELAIN

AGENTS

America	The Macmillan Company 64 & 66 Fifth Avenue, New York
Australasia	The Oxford University Press 205 Flinders Lane, Melbourne
Canada	The Macmillan Company of Canada, Ltd. St. Martin’s House, 70 Bond Street, Toronto
India	Macmillan & Company, Ltd. Macmillan Building, Bombay 309 Bow Bazaar Street, Calcutta

PLATE 1

Jar, Chinese, period of the Ming dynasty, decorated in colours of the No. 1730-1876. See p. 14.
Unmarked.

A · BOOK · OF
PORCELAIN
FINE EXAMPLES IN THE
VICTORIA & ALBERT MUSEUM
PAINTED BY WILLIAM GIBB
WITH TEXT BY
BERNARD RACKHAM, M.A.
ADAM AND CHARLES BLACK
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