Ships of the Silk Road: The Bactrian Camel in Chinese Jade

ISBN-13: 9781781300695 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 200 str.

Angus Forsyth

Opis

For hundreds of years the Bactrian camel ploughed a lonely furrow across the vast wilderness of Asia.

Recenzje

This is a valuable book that shows the validity of the collector's eye, that tests conventional wisdom against what might be called the wisdom of objects. Edith Terry The Asian Review of Books

Spis treści

PrefaceIntroductionMap of the Silk RoadComparative West/East Timeline1. Central Asian Traffic2. Civilised Settlement And Orderly Control3. Transport And Cargoes4. The Camel In ArtPhoto CreditsSelect BibliographyIndex

O autorze

Angus Forsyth is an internationally respected collector of and authority on Chinese jade and a former president of the Oriental Ceramics Society of Hong Kong.