An Illustrated Annotation On The Working And Dating Of Chinese Jades
Gainesville: University of Florida, 1941. Hardcover. Small Folio. ix, 50pp., 13 b/w plates. Original green textured buckram with gilt lettering and ruling on cover, b/w lettering on spine. Illustrated endpapers in color. Color frontispiece. Printed to heave Arches paper. Illustrated with fourteen striking reproductions from original photographs. Seven of the plates are objects, the remaining six are photos of jade production. Recording of a lecture presented at the University of Florida in the Fall Session October 20th, 1941. Dedicated to her Majesty Queen Mary of England. Stanley Charles Nott was one of the world's leading authorities and dealers on Chinese jades in the 20th century.
"Asiatic peoples would seem to have cultivated the earliest human bisexual conceptions of infallibility. The Chinese would appear to have originated the power to captivate those notions and propagate them for the benefit of human progression. Throughout the ages a V sign has been held by the peoples of the East to be a visionary emblem of autocratic arbitrariness; personified in lineally allocated Democratic figureheads... " (Nott). Contains the Lecture No. 6, given to students of the University of Florida and invited guests in Peabody Hall, Gainesville, Florida, Monday evening, October 20th, 1941. Binding with light wear along edges. Gilt ruling on cover with sporadic discoloration. Very good condition. Item #54054
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