A lavishly illustrated volume on Japanese porcelain from one of the world's finest collections Dragons, Tigers and Bamboo highlights 170 masterpieces from the Macdonald Collection at the Gardiner Museum of Ceramic Art in Toronto. This extraordinary collection illustrates many different aspects of the historical interaction between Japanese and European porcelain during the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries. It is the best cross-cultural porcelain collection in Canada and among the best of its kind in the world. Illustrated with more than 160 full-colour photographs commissioned for this volume, Dragons, Tigers and Bamboo makes the Macdonald Collection accessible for the first time to an international audience. In this book: ?Charles Mason contributes a concise and informative history of porcelain in Japan from 1600 to 1750 and provides commentaries on pieces from the Macdonald Collection, including Japanese as well as European styles ?Oliver Impey focuses on Kakiemon porcelain ?Christiaan J.A. Jorg traces the influence of Japanese export porcelain on European porcelain AUTHOR: Oliver Impey (1936?2005) was curator of Eastern art at the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, until 2002. Author or contributor to more than thirty books, including Porcelain for Palaces and The Early Porcelain Kilns of Japan, Impey advised the Macdonalds on the formation of their collection. Christiaan J.A. Jörg, professor of Art History at the Leiden University, is the author of Fine and Curious and Japanese Export Lacquer (with Oliver Impey). Charles Mason is chief curator at the Gardiner Museum of Ceramic Art, Toronto. 160 colour images
