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The Bishop collection : investigations and studies in jade : [volume two]

Bishop Collection · 1906 · New York : Privately printed [The De Vinne press] · 190 pictures

The Bishop Collection, volume two, was privately printed in New York in 1906 by the De Vinne Press to record the jade holdings of collector Heber R. Bishop, with its objects studied for collectors and museum readers. Its four engraved plates show carved Chinese jade vessels set on carved wooden stands, drawn in fine hatched lines with strong shading that gives the stone a polished, sculptural weight, useful to a designer for dense ornamental pattern, carved relief, and the way a lidded vessel's silhouette reads against a plain ground.

Bishop, Heber R. (Heber Reginald), 1840-1902 -- Art collections · Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.) · Jade -- Private collections

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