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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).
Publication Received
L’histoire commence en Mésopotamie. Edited by Ariane Thomas
05/2018 | 1382 | 160
Pages: 438
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Reviewer:
Collon, Dominique (Collon, Dominique)
Subjects
dates:
3000–2500 BC / 2500–2000 BC / 2000–1500 BC / 1500-1000 BC / 1000–500 BC
media:
Architecture / Engravings / Sculpture / Photographs / Reliefs
museums and institutions:
Musée du Louvre-Lens, Lens, France
places:
Mesopotamia (historical region) / France / Lens
subjects:
Mesopotamian / Sumerian / Economics / Civilisation / Clay