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Review Craftsmen, photographer and writer treat the subject with great empathy -- Orientations Magazine Product Description Down the centuries Chinese craftsmen have worked with clay, wood, bamboo, stone and even gourd to bring humble utilitarian objects to the level of art. The appeal of these objects to the collector - whether birdcage or basket, box or brushpot, plate or bowl, transcends simple nostalgia - lying as it does in their intrinsic beauty as much as in the fact that, transmitted from father to son, the skills with which they have been so finely wrought are in danger of perishing. Richer and more eclectic in examples than have ever been gathered between the covers of a single book before, this lavish collection of more than two hundred folk objects, with a text by Lynn Pan, celebrates the art of the Chinese craftsman.