A collection of 20 books, mainly about Chinese works of art and ceramics and private collections.
Mary Tregear, Song Ceramics, Rizzoli, New York 1982. Denis S. Howard, A Tale of three Cities, Canton, Shanghai & Hong Kong, Three Centuries of Sino-British Trade in Decorative Arts, Sotheby's. Oriental Works of art, Gerhard Hawthorn Ltd, Oriental Art, London 1997. Rosemary E. Scott, Percival Foundation of Chinese Art, London 1989. Handbook of the Mr. and Mrs John D. Rockerfeller 3rd Collection, The Asia Society, New York. An Exhibition of Important Chinese Ceramics from the Robert Chang Collection, Christies, London 1993. Maynard G. Cosgrove, The enamels of China and Japan, Dodd Mead & Company, New York, 1974. S. J. Vainker, Chinese pottery and Porcelain from Prehistory to the present, The Brittish Museum Press, 1991. John Ayers, Chinese Ceramics, The Koger Collection, Sotheby's Publications, 1985. H. A. van Oort, Chinese Porcelain of the 19th and 20th centuries, Uitgeversmaatschappij de Tijdsstroom B.V., Lochem, The Netherlands, 1977. Chinese Ceramics, Han Dynasty. The Edward T. Chow Collection, Part Tree, Ming and Qing Porcelain and works of Art, Sotheby Parke Bernet (Hong Kong)n Ltd 1981. Sieur Tzen, Significant aspects of early Chinese Ceramic Arts, China House of Arts, New York 1982. Berthold Laufer, Chinese Pottery of the Han Dynasty, Tuttle, Japan 1970. Cheng Te-k'un, Studies in Chinese Ceramics, The Chinese University Press, Hong Kong, 1984. China a Venezia, From the Han Dynasy to Marco Polo, Electa, Milano 1986. Timothy See-Yiu Lam, Tang Ceramics, Changsha Kilns, A Lammett book, Hong Kong 1990. K. C. Chang , Studies of Shang Archaeology, Yale University Press 1986. James Cahill, The Art of Southern Sung China, Asia House Gallery , New York. A. D. Branston, Early Ming Wares of Chingtechen, Oxford University Press 1982.
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Provenance
The Oldertz Collection. Carl Oldertz (1924-2006), was a M.D.h.c. and a Director of a Swedish Insurance Company, Stockholm.
Carl was a passionate collector, who built his collection over the decades. In the 1970’s he started to focus his interest in objects from Asia, mainly Chinese Antiques and Works of Art. He was very much an academic collector who strived to acquire pieces from different epoques and constantly sought after more knowledge about the pieces, the techniques and their history. His broad interest in Chinese culture and history together with his curiosity led him to visit many private collections and museums around the world.