Shang Ritual Bronzes from the Sackler Collections

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Author: Bagley, Robert W.
Title: Shang Ritual Bronzes in the Arthur M. Sackler Collections Volume I
Place Published: Washington, D.C. & Cambridge Massachusetts
Publisher:The Arthur M. Sackler Foundation
Date Published: 1987
Description:

599 pp. Illustrated with numerous B&W and color photographs of ritual bronzes. 35.6x27.7 cm (14x11"), brown imitation leather, lettering and decorative emblem stamped in gilt, in publisher's dust jacket; illustrated endpapers.

First of three volumes on the ancient Chinese bronzes in the Arthur M. Sackler collections. From the Smithsonian's page on the collection: "The Sackler Gallery features both permanent and temporary exhibitions from ancient times to the present. The museum is home to an incomparable collection of art, including some of the most important ancient Chinese jades and bronzes in the world."Due to the size and/or weight of this lot extra shipping and/or handling charges may apply.
Condition Report: Touches of creasing along edges of dust jacket; textblock bottom edge lightly smudged; volume near fine in like jacket.