How to identify old Chinese porcelain
Mrs Willoughby Hodgson
Category
Books
Date
1905
Materials
bookcloth, paper
Measurements
215 x 150 mm; 35 mm (thickness)
Place of origin
England
Collection
Wallington, Northumberland
NT 3087736
Summary
Bibliographic description
xiv,178,[2]p.,XXXIX plates . ill.. . 8vo.. With a manuscript note pinned to title page: 'Marco Polo's incense burner 1366 (bottom left corner)'. Occasional manuscript marks.. Provenance: manuscript note on endpaper in hand of Sir George Otto Trevelyan: 'Given me by Mr Duveen July 1908' [possibly Joseph Duveen, later Baron Duveen of Millbank, (1869-1939)] Twentieth-century pictorial armorial bookplate, a re-working of an earlier William Bell Scott pictorial Trevelyan bookplate (Franks 29799) of Sir Walter Calverley Trevelyan (1797-1879), lettered: Charles & Mary Trevelyan [i.e. Sir Charles Philips Trevelyan (1870-1958), & Mary Katharine, (m.1904).] Arms: Trevelyan impaling Bell. Not in Franks.. Binding: Publisher's cloth.
Provenance
Gift from Sir Charles Philips Trevelyan 3rd Bt
Makers and roles
Mrs Willoughby Hodgson