Chinese Jade - Classic 1925 Book by Tanner -Nice Plates Start Price USD 2,000.00 Current Price USD 2,000.00 Time Left 5 days 42 minutes Bid Count 0 Buy It Now Price - Reserve Price - Start Time Tuesday, September 16, 2008 End Time Wednesday, January 14, 2009 Location Northampton, Massachusetts See more about 'Chinese Jade - Classic 1925 Book by Tanner -Nice Plates' Description "Chinese Jade. Ancient and Modern. Descriptive catalogue, illustrating the most prominent pieces of a collection of jade articles, with special reference to sepulchral jades" By P. de Tanner.  Published in Berlin by Dietrich Reimer / Ernst Vohsen: 1925. Tanner was the Commissioner of the Chinese Maritime Customs Service, and collected a wide variety of antique Chinese jades while in China between 1913 and 1919. He was an omnivorous rather than acutely discriminating collector, buying both fine and crudely made objects, in quartz, jadeite and hardstone as well as jade and, it must be admitted, new as well as antique examples (though he didn't know it). There are pendants, discs, plaques, figures, axes, knives & swords, bells, vases, urns, musical instruments, mythological creatures- you name it, it's here. Sinkankas comments- "One of the outstanding jade books, but not well known due to its rarity... Its text is meager and its principal value lies in the enormous variety of objects of which there are approximately 2,000 portrayed upon the plates...As an encyclopedia of forms that imaginative Chinese lapidaries created from jade this book is worth whatever is asked for it".". Volume 2 includes 7 colored plates showing object which illustrate the wide variety of colors jade comes in. 2 volumes. Hardcover. 13"x9.5". Volume 1- 35 + 15 pages + 64 black & white plates with facing descriptive pages; Volume 2- 17 + 2 + 8 + 3 pages, plus 53 black & white plates and 7 color plates, all with facing descriptive pages. Original cloth, respined with new leather spines; half-title to Vol. 1 torn in half and repaired; some cover wear and soil, a little internal soil. - QUESTIONS about this item? If you have any questions regarding this item, please let us know and we will respond promptly. We have more books like this listed in our Ebay store! Joslin Hall Books Selling books since 1983 INSURANCE??? As a seller we take responsibility for properly packing and delivering your purchase safely to you. You do not have to spend extra for insurance to guarantee that. RETURNS: We want you to be completely satisfied- anything is returnable for any reason at all within 14 days of receipt; we do ask that you notify us that you are returning it. OVERSEAS CUSTOMERS: We always welcome orders from customers outside the United States. The United States Post Office has discontinued surface (sea mail) shipments overseas, and so all packages must now go by air, meaning shipping to overseas customers costs more than it used to. You can use the Ebay shipping calculator (below), or use the "Ask Us a Question" button, to find the cost of shipping before you buy a book. If we can answer any other questions, please let us know. - Member of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America and the International League of Antiquarian Booksellers. Your satisfaction is guaranteed with every book you purchase. Place a Bid!