Antique Pottery Porcelain Marks - Oriental European English American / Book SET

Description

Picture is of the slip case which holds this two-volume book set.
With over 3,000 illustrations including more than 2,000 black-and-white photographs, this early out-of-print book set is one of  the most comprehensive study ever published on the subject of antique pottery and porcelain.   1,158 pages of text provide a comprehensive and detailed history of the art of ceramics through the ages covering Oriental, European, English, and American pottery and porcelain.  In addition to profuse illustrations and rich narrative, this book pictures detailed drawings, maps, and in-depth  reference tables of all authenticated marks and signatures.
THE BOOK OF POTTERY AND PORCELAIN
by Warren E. Cox, Crown Publishers, NY, 1945/1975.  This early, out-of-print, two-volume book set covers by chapter:
Contents of Volume One – 558 pages
: Introduction; Definitions; Fundamental Aesthetic Appeals; The Earliest Potteries; Crete, Egypt and the Aegean; Greece; Italy; Han China; “Six Dynasties” and Sui Periods of China; T’an Period of China; The Five Dynasties; The Sung Dynasty; Korean Potteries and Porcelains; Japanese Pottery and Porcelains; Potteries of Persia, Western Asia and Egypt; European Pottery (From Late Rome through Spanish and Italian Lustre Wares); Near Eastern and European Tin Slip and Tin Glazed Wares; French, German and Netherlands Tin Glazed Wares (faience and Delft); European Modeled and Molded Wares to the 18th Century; Yuan Period in China; The Great Ming Period; and The Ch’ing Dynasty.
Contents of Volume Two – 600 pages
:  The Ch’ing Dynasty (continued); European ‘Soft Paste’ and Porcelain; The European Discovery of Porcelain; 18th Century European Porcelain Continued – France, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Switzerland, Russia, Netherlands, Belgium, Denmark, Sweden; English ‘Soft Paste’ and ‘Bone China’; European 18th Century Pottery; The Potteries and Stoneware of England and Wales; American Indian Potteries; American Colonial and 19th Century Wares; Contemporary Ceramics; Marks of Potteries and Porcelains; Index to the Two Volumes.
”With all the halftone and line illustrations , and all the text, here is a new, convenient edition of the definitive work on the subject.”  This is a must-buy book set for the connoisseur of antique pottery and porcelain.
Picture is of the slip case which holds this two-volume book set.
Each book is a 6.4” x 9.2” hardback with NO dust cover in very good condition.   Vol. I:  558 pages; Vol. II:  600 pages.
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