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Most important new reference book on Chinese export porcelain published by Jorge Welsh Books

LONDON.- The most important new reference book on Chinese export porcelain to have been published for many years reveals for the first time comprehensive details of what is probably the world’s best private collection of pieces intended primarily for the European market. The RA Collection of Chinese Ceramics: A Collector’s Vision by Maria Antónia Pinto de Matos, a distinguished academic and museum director, also contains much new research into the entire subject of Chinese export porcelain. Published by Jorge Welsh Books, this magnificent limited edition three-volume boxed set is a work of art in its own right. The RA Collection has been assembled over the past 30 years by an intuitive sharpeyed connoisseur who has combined a passion for Chinese export porcelain with a rigorous insistence on quality, beauty, rarity and historical relevance