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Oriental Ceramics: The World’s Great Collections (complete 12 volumes)

Pope, John Alexander; Koyama, Fujio (editors)

Originally published by Kodansha as a limited deluxe 12 volume set, this critically acclaimed and now scarce masterpiece has been issued in a standard edition with no compromise in the quality of scholarship or production.

Each volume contains approximately 200 pages, with an average of 100 colour plates and 300 black-and-white plates. Each is handsomely cloth-bound with an attractive slipcase. This 1980-1982 standard edition set consists of 11 volumes and we added the publication Far Eastern Ceramics in the Victoria and Albert Museum published in 1980 (ISBN 0-85667-076-6) (174 pages; 2.199 kg; 27.2 x 37.4) which is a reprint of the 1975 edition (hence not bound equally as the set) in order to complete the original 12 volumes. The 11 volumes are: Volume 1: Tokyo National Museum (ISBN 0-87011-440-9) (191 pages; 3.055 kg); Volume 2: National Museum of Korea (ISBN 0-87011-441-7) (184 pages; 3.010 kg); Volume 3: Museum Pusat, Jakarta (ISBN 0-87011-442-5) (175 pages; 2.928 kg); Volume 4: Iran Bastan Museum, Teheran (ISBN 0-87011-443-3) (166 pages; 2.780 kg); Volume 5: The British Museum, London (ISBN 0-87011-444-1) (171 pages; 2.880 kg); Volume 6: Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art, London (ISBN 0-87011-445-X) (174 pages; 2.927 kg); Volume 7: Musee Guimet, Paris (ISBN 0-87011-446-8) (181 pages; 2.984 kg); Volume 8: Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities, Stockholm (ISBN 0-87011-447-6) (166 pages; 2.801 kg); Volume 9: The Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. (ISBN 0-87011-448-4) (175 pages; 2.888 kg); Volume 10: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (ISBN 0-87011-449-2) (182 pages; 2.957 kg); Volume 11: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (ISBN 0-87011-450-6) (179 pages; 2.966 kg). The measures of each of the 11 volumes is 27 x 38 cm.

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