Howard, David Sanctuary — Chinese Armorial Porcelain

Book Good Dust Jacket Included 1st Edition Faber and Faber Limited, London English text.; Hardcover (with dust jacket); 23 x 29 cm; 4.24 kg; 1034 pages with black-and-white illustrations and a few in colour.; Used with signs of wear. The dust jacket is slightly loose due to wear, show signs of wear throughout, namely edge wear, and minor scuffs and scratches throughout, is price clipped, the front cover show signs of have been bent in the past, the spine has a tear at the bottom left side and the laminated layer is slightly peeling off at the top, there is also a tiny chip at the left bottom corner of the back cover. The dust jacket is tapped on the rear (only seem if the dust jacket is removed) namely on the tear at the spine. Interior with signs of wear, namely a few pages that show signs of have been bent in the past, small wear marks on a few pages and minor yellowing throughout. The outside text block shows minor yellowing. The dust jacket is protected with clearcover. Good condition overall.; OUT OF PRINT.; Chinese Armorial Porcelain presents a fascinating blend of information on Chinese export ware, heraldry, and taste and social history in this country during the eighteenth century. As Sir Anthony Wagner, Garter King of Arms, writes in the foreword, "The social historian, no less than the herald, the connoisseur and the collector may learn much from this book.". The major part of David Howard's book consists of a dictionary of armorial porcelain services painted in China for the British market between 1695 and 1820. Pieces of nearly 2,000 services are illustrated by styles chronologically, the arms blazoned and the families described; and in all 2,900 services are recorded. Perhaps the greatest value of the book to the collector lies in its extensive analyses of this ware. The porcelain provides evidence which has made it possible for the author to date exactly the first appearance of famille rose and identify, almost as if with hallmarks, the detailed changes of style through the century. The book also covers the manufacture of this porcelain in eighteen century China, its rapidly rising values in the twentieth century, and very other aspects of the ware and its owners. David Howard has travelled widely in every continent as a merchant, and as a collector himself, with many years' interest in heraldry and the arts, he understands what other collectors feel. They will not, he says, 'always find that the service was made for Pitt or Clive, for a son of William Penn or the father of Edward Gibbon, but may be just as pleased to discover the arms to be the Hill impaling Dale, or Byde with Hope in pretence.".