A RARE BOOK, “LA PORCELAIN DE CHINE” BY OTTO DU SARTEL, FIRST EDITION 1881
A RARE BOOK, “LA PORCELAIN DE CHINE” BY OTTO DU SARTEL, FIRST EDITION 1881
Leather-bound book
Paris, France, 1881
This extremely rare first edition of Otto du Sartel’s “La Porcelain de Chine” offers 227 pages and 32 heliogravures and chromolithographs, plus more than 120 illustrations in the text, on Chinese porcelain. Includes a printed review by French art critic Philippe Burty, who coined the term “Japonism” in 1872, dated February 28, 1882.
Dimensions: BOOK SIZE 40.5 x 29.7 CM, SHEET SIZE 36 x 27.5 CM
Condition: Good condition
Provenance: German private collection