Chinese export art & design reading list

Beurdeley, Michel, Porcelain of the East India Companies. Barrie and Rockliff, London, 1962
    
Clunas, Craig (ed), Chinese Export Art and Design. V&A Museum, l987. ISBN. 1 85177 000 3
    
Clunas, Craig, Chinese Export Watercolours. V&A Museum, l984. ISBN. 0 905209 61 3
    
Conner, Patrick, The China Trade l600-l860. The Royal Pavilion, Art Gallery and Museums, Brighton, l986. ISBN. 0 948723 00 9
    
Conner, Patrick, Oriental Architecture in the West. Thames & Hudson, l979. ISBN. 0 500 34079 X
    
Crosby Forbes, H.A. et al  Chinese Export Silver 1785 to 1885. Museum of American China Trade, Milton Mass, 1975

Crossman, Carl, The Decorative Arts of the China Trade: Paintings, Furnishings and Exotic Curiosities. Antique Collectors Club, l99l. ISBN. 1 85149 096 5
    
De Kesel, W & Dhont, G, Coromandel Lacquer Screens. Brussels, 2002. ISBN. 9053 4938 16
    
Honour, Hugh, Chinoiserie: The Vision of Cathay. John Murray, London, l96l. ISBN. 0 7195 2927 1
    
Howard, David, Chinese Armorial Porcelain. Faber and Faber, London, 1974. The definitive work on porcelains decorated with European coats of arms. ISBN. 0 571 09811 8

Howard, David & Ayers, John, China for the West: Chinese Porcelain and Other Decorative Arts for Export.  Illustrated from the Mottahedeh Collection. Sotheby Parke Bernet, 1978. Two Volumes. ISBN. 0 85667 035 9

Howard, David S., The Choice of the Private Trader. Zwemmer, London, 1994. The private market in Chinese Export Porcelain, in contrast to the East India Company trade. ISBN. 0 302 00642 7

Howard, David S.,  A Tale of Three Cities: Canton, Shanghai & Hong Kong. Sotheby's, 1997. ISBN. 0 9622 5883 0

Jorg, C.J.A.  Porcelain and the Dutch China Trade. Martinus Nijhoff, the Hague, 1982

Jorg, C.J.A.  The Geldermalsen, History and Porcelain. Kemper Publishers, Groningen, 1986. ISBN. 90 70295 29 6

Jourdain, Margaret & Jenyns, R. Soames Chinese Export Art in the Eighteenth Century. Spring Books, London, l967
    
Rinaldi, Maura  Kraak Porcelain. Bamboo Publishing Limited, London, 1989. ISBN. 1 870076 09 5

Sargent, William R. The Copeland Collection. The Peabody Museum of Salem, 1991. Only available book solely devoted to figurines. ISBN. 0 87577 158 0

Wilson, Ming et al  Souvenir from Canton - Chinese Export Paintings from the V&A. Guangzhou Museum of Art, 2003. ISBN. 7-5325-3548-7

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