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This book also contains many detailed references to related subjects:

• The design and dating of all Chinese export porcelain

• Details of heraldic patterns for porcelain and other decorative arts

• Design links with British and European porcelain

• Wide-ranging East India Company records and dates of sailings

• Considerable genealogy and social history

• One of the most extensive records of 18th Century armorials ever illustrated, frequently providing identification of other objects with armorials

• A considerable index of mottoes (some not otherwise recorded)

• An index of over 4,000 Chinese armorial services

• The extensive cross-referencing will serve as a record for museums, reference libraries, auction houses and researchers in a number of fields.

904 pages; 282mm x 216mm; 1,980 illustrations (95% in colour)
blue bound buckram; ribbon marker; laminated dust jacket; slip case
or limited edition burgundy leather; ribbon marker; lamintated dust jacket; slip case

ISBN 0–9544389–0–6 (cloth bound) £480
ISBN 0–9544389–1–4 (leather bound) £680

To be published May 2003