Descrizione

First edition. With well over 200 stunning colour illustrations all throughout of artifacts photographed by Michael Gould of the Imaging Studios, Boston MFA, except where otherwise noted. 4to, publisher's original green buckram lettered on the spine in gilt, in the original photographically-decorated dustjacket. ix, 261pp. A very fine copy, book and jacket both as pristine and mint.

Edizione: a beautifully photographed catalogue from the boston museum of fine art's holdings of vietnamese ceramics.<br> "the focus of conflict from the colonial era to the cold war, vietnam at long last is emerging as a global force in trade and culture. likewise its ceramics tradition, a fusion of eclectic influences and unique forms and forces, is exciting the imagination and delighting the senses of a widening circle of collectors and connoisseurs. the elephant and the lotus explores this vital tradition by highlighting over two hundred objects in the museum of fine arts, boston." - jacket