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Soft cover. Condizione: New. No Jacket. 1st Edition. English text; Paperback; 23.4 x 29.7 cm; 1.4 kg; 240 pages with 191 colour illustrations.; Adapted from the six volume RA Collection book entries: Vols I - IV The RA Collection of Chinese Ceramics: A Collector's Vision by Maria Antonia Pinto de Matos, Vol V - The RA Collection of Enamelled Copper: A Collector's Vision by Maria Antónia Pinto de Matos, Ana Moás, Ching-Fei Shih., Vol VI - The RA Collection of Cross-Cultural Works of Art: A Collector's Vision by Helder Carita, Alexandra Curvelo, Maria Antónia Pinto de Matos, Bruno Alexandre Morais, Fernando António Baptista Pereira, William R. Sargent.; 100 Highlights from the Albuquerque Collection offers an exceptional journey through one of the world's most important private collections of Chinese export porcelain and cross-cultural works of art from Africa and Asia, assembled by the collector Renato de Albuquerque. Carefully curated by leading scholars, William R. Sargent and Valentina Bruccoleri, the publication presents one hundred outstanding objects selected for their artistic excellence, rarity and historical significance. Spanning roughly a period of 1,400 years, the works featured in this first catalogue for the Albuquerque Foundation reflect the collector's rigorous criteria in bringing together objects that not only illustrate, but also deepen our understanding of the wider field of material culture resulting from encounters between different peoples and cultures. Each highlight is accompanied by expert commentary that situates the object within its cultural, historical, and commercial contexts. The essays explore themes such as cross-cultural exchange and global trade while examining the enduring dialogue between East and West that helped shape and circulation of shared material heritage.…

Hardcover. Condizione: New. No Jacket. 1st Edition. English text.; Hardcover (without dust jacket - as issued); 24.5 x 28; 2.8 Kg.; 480 pages with 610 colour illustrations throughout.; The Santos Palace in Lisbon (now the French Embassy in Portugal) contains a hidden treasure: a small square room with a pyramid-shaped, gilted wooden ceiling, to which nearly three hundred Chinese porcelain plates and dishes, mostly blue and white, have been attached. This book is the catalogue raisonné of that unique collection.…

Hardcover. Condizione: New. No Jacket. 1st Edition. English text.; Hardcover.; 23.5 x 29.7 cm.; 1.4 Kg.; 182 pages with 256 colour illustrations.; LIMITED EDITION of 200 COPIES.; Unfolding Stories: The Dutch Tribute and West Lake Kuancai, so-called Coromandel, Lacquer Screen, is a monograph dedicated to a rare and extraordinary kuancai folding screen produced during the Kangxi period (1662-1722). It is considered by many as one of the most important kuancai folding screens so far recorded, certainly the most important example of the few recorded depicting European figures. Illustrating the diversity and iconographic richness found in kuancai lacquer, it depicts two intricate and masterfully executed scenes of The Dutch Tribute and the West Lake in Hangzhou. Featuring articles by three scholars, this publication seeks to cover what is currently known about kuancai lacquer, the present screen, its historical context and the parallels with Japanese folding screens, which, from the 15th century onward, often also depicted maritime trade and foreign merchants - including the Chinese, Portuguese, and later, the Dutch.…