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Burnished beauty : the art of stone in early Southeast Asia / edited by Christopher J. Frape.
Penn Museum Library DS523 .B875 2000
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- Chinese
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Stone carving--Southeast Asia.
- Stone carving.
- Stone implements--Southeast Asia.
- Stone implements.
- Southeast Asia--Antiquities.
- Southeast Asia.
- Antiquities.
- Art--Southeast Asia.
- Art.
- Physical Description:
- 162 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Bangkok : Orchid Press, 2000.
- Language Note:
- English with some Chinese.
- Summary:
- Recent archaeological discoveries have demonstrated that beginning some 5000 years ago the early societies of Southeast Asia were the creators of a rich array of carved stone objects for ornament and ceremonial use. Drawn from fifteen private and public collections, and including 167 outstanding examples, most never published before, these artifacts of the ancient peoples of Vietnam, Laos, Thailand, Indonesia, the Phillipines, and aboriginal Taiwan are fully described and illustrated in color. The study is supported by six scholarly contributions on the current state of knowledge of the lithic arts of these early cultures and includes maps and a detailed bibliography relevant to the material presented.
- Notes:
- "White Orchid Books."
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 158-160) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9748304884
- 9748304892
- OCLC:
- 47028737
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