Oriental European Pottery Porcelain Makers Marks Dates / Scarce Book 1095 pages

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This massive bible-thick book is a comprehensive in-depth guide to antique pottery and porcelain marks and monograms.  ”Chaffers’ is a complete survey of marks and monograms of every historical period, designed for ease of reference.”  Given 1,095 pages, this in-depth book covers by country the makers, marks, and monograms of most know makers of antique European and Oriental pottery and porcelain.
MARKS & MONOGRAMS ON EUROPEAN AND ORIENTAL POTTERY & PORCELAIN
by William Chaffers, Crown Publishers, CA, 1946 Fourteenth Revised Edition, 1991.
“This encyclopedic survey is recognized universally as the finest volume of its kind” and the “most quoted ceramic reference book in the world.”  In addition to rendering a complete survey of British, European and Oriental marks and monograms of every historical period, it offers “an extensive history of pottery and porcelain with commentary on factories, potters, modellers and artists in every European and Oriental country contributing to the art of ceramics.  Complete in every way and exhaustively indexed, this greatest of all volumes on marks and monograms answers fully a need long felt by connoisseurs, curators, libraries, amateur collectors and all true lovers of ceramics.”
Massive bible-thick 6.75” x 9.75” hardback with dust cover in very good condition. 1,095 pages.
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