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The Fondation Baur, Musee des Arts d Extreme-Orient, Geneva, Switzerland, houses one of the most important collections of Asian art in the world: some 9,000 works from China and Japan. This new book celebrates the 50th anniversary of the museum and the 150th birthday of Alfred Baur (1865-1951), whose collections are housed in the museum's elegant nineteenth-century townhouse. Lavishly illustrated with stunning new photographs, most full page, the book showcases the diversity and quality of Baur's collections, which span netsuke, lacquerware, saber fittings, prints, jades, imperial ceramics, textiles, and much more. Precious Japanese objects, meticulously worked and technically perfect, reveal the outstanding skills of Japanese craftsmen; the simplicity of the forms of Chinese monochrome ceramics displays the contemporaneity of the visionary master ceramists of the Song dynasty. AUTHORS: Monique Crick is Director at the Fondation Baur, Musee des Arts d Extreme-Orient, Geneva. Helen Loveday is curator and Estelle Nikles van Osselt is assistant curator, both at the Fondation Baur. Hughes Dubois is a photographer who specialises in art objects. 360 colour

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Monique Crick is an art historian who specializes in Far Eastern art. She was an independent researcher commissioned to undertake projects for the musee national des Arts asiatiques-Guimet in Paris from 1991 to 1998, and for the musee Cernuschi as from 1999. Since January 2003 she has been director of the Baur Foundation, Museum of Far Eastern Arts in Geneva. Helen Loveday studied Chinese at Oxford University and wrote a doctorate on the archaeology of the Warring States Period. She has worked at the Baur Foundation since 2003, first as assistant curator, then as curator. She is also a part-time lecturer in the Art of China and Japan at Genea University. Estelle Nikles van Osselt is a sinologist. She studied Asian arts and archaeology at universities in Geneva, London and Beijing. Today the assistant curator at the Baur Foundation, Museum of Far Eastern Arts, she previously worked for the Guy & Myriam Ullens contemporary Chinese art foundation and their UCCA art centre in Beijing. Hughes Dubois is a photographer who specializes in advertising and art objects. He has worked with various institutions and collectors around the world.

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