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Book Review
Chinese Ivory Carvings: The Sir Victor Sassoon Collection. By Rose Kerr, Phillip Allen and Shi Ching-fei
10/2018 | 1387 | 160
Pages: 869-870
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Reviewer:
Pearce, Nick (Pearce, Nick)
Subjects
collectors and dealers:
Sassoon, Victor / Lucas, S. E.
dates:
2000–1500 BC / 1500-1000 BC / 1000–500 BC / 0499-0400 BC / 0399-0300 BC / 0299-0200 BC / 0199-0100 BC / 0099-0001 BC / 0001-0099 / 0100-0199 / 0200-0299 / 0300-0399 / 0400-0499 / 0500-0599 / 0600-0699 / 0700-0799 / 0800-0899 / 0900-0999 / 1000-1099 / 1100-1199 / 1200-1299 / 1300-1399 / 1400-1499 / 1500-1599 / 1600-1699 / 1700-1799 / 1800-1899
media:
Ivories
places:
China / Guangdong / Guangzhou / Shanghai / Great Britain
subjects:
Collecting / Collections / Sassoon Collection / Gifts / Collectors / Merchants / Vessels / Chinese export / Chinese sculpture / Carvings
Illustrations
Non-western art unattributed:
2. Brush pot carved with a continuous landscape design. Qing dynasty, 18th century. Ivory, height 19.5 cm. (Sir Victor Sassoon Collection).
Exhibition Review
Twilight of the Pharaohs. Paris
06/2012 | 1311 | 154
Pages: 439-441
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Reviewer:
Hardwick, Tom (Hardwick, Tom)
Subjects
dates:
2010-2019 / 0099-0001 BC / 0199-0100 BC / 0299-0200 BC / 0399-0300 BC / 0499-0400 BC / 0599-0500 BC / 0699-0600 BC / 0799-0700 BC / 0899-0800 BC / 0999-0900 BC
dates:
1000-1099 BC
museums and institutions:
Musée Jacquemart-André, Paris, France
places:
Paris / France
print:
Egyptian sculpture
subjects:
Reviews / Exhibitions / Egyptian sculpture
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Le Crépuscule des Pharaons: Chefs-d’œuvre des dernières dynasties égyptiennes | institution: Musée Jacquemart-André
Illustrations
Western art unattributed:
77. Head of a man. Egypt, 30th Dynasty – Ptolemaic period, c.400–300 BC. Greywacke, 23 cm. high. (Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin; exh. Musée Jacquemart-André, Paris).
Western art unattributed:
78. Bust of a man wearing a non-Egyptian gorget. Egypt, 27th Dynasty, c.525–404 BC. Basalt, 36.5 cm. high. (Museo Egizio, Florence; exh. Musée Jacquemart-André, Paris).
Western art unattributed:
79. Head of a man. Catalogued and displayed as Egypt, 27th Dynasty, c.525–404 BC. Limestone, 11.4 cm. high. (Private collection; exh. Musée Jacquemart-André, Paris).
Book Review
The Architecture of Alexandria and Egypt 300 BC–AD 700
01/2010 | 1282 | 152
Pages: 40
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Reviewer:
Ashton, Sally-Ann (Ashton, Sally-Ann)
Subjects
dates:
0299-0200 BC / 0199-0100 BC / 0099-0001 BC / 0001-0199 / 0200-0299 / 0300-0399 / 0400-0499 / 0500-0599 / 0600-0699
places:
Alexandria / Egypt
print:
Egyptian architecture
subjects:
Architectural history / Egyptian architecture / Alexandrian
Reviewed Items
subjects:
The Architecture of Alexandria and Egypt 300 BC–AD 700 | author: McKenzie, Judith
Publication Received
Picturing the Bible: The Earliest Christian Art
10/2008 | 1267 | 50
Pages: 698
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Reviewer:
Scafi, Alessandro (Scafi, Alessandro)
Subjects
dates:
0399-0300 BC / 0299-0200 BC / 0199-0100 BC / 0099-0001 BC / 0001-0199 / 0200-0299 / 0300-0399
print:
Medieval art
subjects:
Medieval / Essays
subjects:
Christian iconography / Christianity / Paganism
subjects:
Iconography / Greco-Roman / Roman (post-Classical) / Illuminated manuscripts
subjects:
Jewish / Roman art / Roman (ancient)
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Picturing the Bible: The Earliest Christian Art | author: Scafi, Alessandro , author: Spier, Jeffrey
Publication Received
Greek Architecture
03/1999 | 1152 | 141
Pages: 184
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Reviewer:
Campbell, Ian (I. C.) (Campbell, Ian (I. C.))
Subjects
dates:
0599-0500 BC / 0499-0400 BC / 0399-0300 BC / 0299-0200 BC / 0199-0100 BC / 0099-0001 BC / 0001-0099
places:
Greece
subjects:
Architecture / Greek (ancient) / Architectural history
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Greek Architecture | author: Lawrence, A. W. , author: Tomlinson, R. A.
Book Review
The Ince Blundell Collection of Classical Sculpture. Volume I: The Portraits, Part 2: The Roman Male Portraits
03/1999 | 1152 | 141
Pages: 171-172
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Reviewer:
Walker, Susan (Walker, Susan)
Subjects
dates:
0299-0200 BC / 0199-0100 BC / 0001-0199 / 0200-0299 / 0300-0399 / 0400-0499
dates:
0099-0001 BC
museums and institutions:
Ince Blundell Hall, Lancashire, Great Britain
places:
Italy / Rome (historical region)
places:
Liverpool / England
subjects:
Sculpture / Classical / Roman (ancient) / Portraits
Reviewed Items
subjects:
The Ince Blundell Collection of Classical Sculpture. Volume I: The Portraits, Part 2: The Roman Male Portraits | author: Fejfer, Jane , author: Flower, David
Letter
Two Chinese Mirrors
03/1939 | 432 | 74
Pages: 144
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Author:
Yetts, W. Perceval (Yetts, W. Perceval; Yetts, Walter Perceval; Yetts, W. Percival; Y., W. P.; Yetts, Perceval; Y., P.; Yetts, W. P.)
Subjects
dates:
0199-0100 BC
subjects:
Chinese sculpture / Bronzes / Metalwork / Mirrors / Chinese
subjects:
Inscriptions / Patronage / Royalty
Article
Two Chinese Mirrors
01/1939 | 430 | 74
Pages: 22-24+26-28
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Author:
Yetts, W. Perceval (Yetts, W. Perceval; Yetts, Walter Perceval; Yetts, W. Percival; Y., W. P.; Yetts, Perceval; Y., P.; Yetts, W. P.)
Subjects
dates:
0199-0100 BC / 0100-0199 / 0001-0099
places:
China / Wu-yüeh (former Chinese state)
subjects:
Chinese sculpture / Bronzes / Mirrors / Chinese
subjects:
Metalwork / Inscriptions / Patronage / Royalty
subjects:
Fuchai, d. 473 B.C.
subjects:
Goujian, d. 465 B.C.
Illustrations
Non-western art unattributed:
Plate I. Chinese Mirror. Probably Second Century B. C. Bronze. Diam., 17.5 cm. (Sedgwick Collection, London). Two Chinese Mirrors
Non-western art unattributed:
Plate II. Chinese Mirror. First or Second Century A. D. Bronze. Diameter, 21 cm. (Sedgwick Collection, London). Two Chinese Mirrors
Article
A Han Bronze Vase
05/1931 | 338 | 58
Pages: 240-242
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Author:
Yetts, W. Perceval (Yetts, W. Perceval; Yetts, Walter Perceval; Yetts, W. Percival; Y., W. P.; Yetts, Perceval; Y., P.; Yetts, W. P.)
Subjects
dates:
0199-0100 BC
places:
China
subjects:
Chinese Art / Chinese / Bronzes / Vases / Han / Ceremonial vessels / Hu (Chinese vessels)
subjects:
You (Chinese vessels)
subjects:
Inscriptions
subjects:
Royalty / Patronage / Metalwork
Illustrations
Non-western art unattributed:
Bronze Vase, Plated with Gold and Silver. Former Han. Height of Vessel, 35.5 cm.; Height Including Handle, 48.8 cm. (Mr. C. T. Loo, Paris). A Han Bronze Vase
Non-western art unattributed:
Fig. 1. Inscription, Actual Size.
Non-western art unattributed:
Fig. 2. Decipherment of Inscription.
Non-western art unattributed:
Fig. 3. Decorative Design on the Lid.
Article
The Hoard of the Kâren Pahlavs
01/1928 | 298 | 52
Pages: 21-23+27
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Author:
Herzfeld, Ernst (Herzfeld, Ernst)
Subjects
dates:
0199-0100 BC
places:
Iran / Persia
subjects:
Persian / Archaeology / Metalwork
subjects:
Jewellery / Silverwork / Bactrian
Illustrations
Non-western art unattributed:
A, B-Silver Bowl, Design Gilt on Silver Ground. Diameter, 8.6 cm.; C-Gold Ornament of Horse Trappings. Length, 9.3 cm.; D, E-Silver Bowl, Design Silver on Gilt Ground. Diameter, 14.5 cm. All First or Second Century, B. C. The Hoard of the Kâren Pahlavs
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