Bound in pictorial cloth and housed in the four original cloth portfolios, now dampstained and worn, the set showed staining to two of
the volumes, but it raised a
treble-estimate bid of £12,000.
The Walters Collection of Oriental Ceramic Art
A Chinese works of art sale held by Christie’s on June 18 included a set of S.W. Bushell’s Oriental Ceramic Art illustrated by Examples from the Collection of W.T. Walters, published in 10 volumes in 1897 and illustrated with 116 chromos by Louis Prang after J & J.C. Callowhill.
