Ars Orientalis (Volume 11)

Washington, DC: Freer Gallery of Art; Smithsonian Institution; University of Michigan, Dept. of the History of Art, 1979. Hardbound. VG (Like New, previous owner's name written on front flyleaf.). Bound in gray cloth with brown titles. 328 pp. Many black and white illus. Published in conjunction with the Smithsonian, and The Fine Arts Dept. of the University of Michigan. Contains scholarly articles, excavation reports, bibliographies, book reviews and many illustrations. Texts are in various languages and most articles are illustrated. This journal is an annual volume of scholarly articles and book reviews on the art and archaeology of Asia, including the ancient Near East and the Islamic world. It fosters a broad range of themes and approaches, targeting scholars in diverse fields. This issue is dedicated to the memory of Rutherford John Gettens and contains these articles: Pigments Used in Japanese Paintings from the Protohistoric Period through the 19th Century / Kazuo Yamasaki, Yoshimichi Emoto -- The Scroll Painting / Kenzo Toishi -- A Pigment Census of Japanese Ukiyo-e Paintings in the Freer Gallery of Art / Elisabeth West Fitzhugh -- Urushi and Conservation: The Use of Japanese Lacquer in the Restoration of Japanese Art / Steven Weintraub, Kanya Tsujimoto, Sadae Walters -- Notes on the Use of Cobalt in Later Chinese Ceramics / James C. Y. Watt -- Lead Isotopes in Some Japanese and Chinese Glasses / Robert H. Brill, et. al. -- The Provenance of Early Islamic Lustre Wares / Jay D. Frierman, Frank Asaro, Helen V. Michel -- Decor Replication in Two Late Chou Bronze Chien / Barbara W. Keyser -- Techniques of Silversmithing in the Hormizd II Plate / Donald F. Gibbons, Katharine C. Ruhl, Dorothy G. Shepherd -- The Metallurgical Technique of the Silver 'Palte with Figures', Gupta Period / Donald F. Gibbons, Katharine C. Ruhl -- Gravimetric and Spectrographic Analysis of Some Ancient Chinese Copper Alloys / Earle R. Caley, In Soon Moon Chang, Niliufer Paranyi Woods -- Non-destructive X-ray Fluorescence Analysis of Ancient Bronze Mirrors Excavated in Japan / Masaaki Sawada -- Early Chinese Black Mirrors and Pattern-etched Weapons / W. T. Chase, Ursula Martius Franklin --Studies on the Iron Blade of a Shang Dynasty Bronze Yueh-axe Unearthed at Kao=ch'eng, Hopei, China / Li Chung -- The Techniques of the Japanese Tsuba-maker / Elaine I. Savage,. Cyril Stanley Smith.