“A Thousand Years of Stoneware Jars in the Philippines” By Cynthia O. Valdes, Kerry Nguyen Long, Artemio C. Barbosa

This book contains a collection of three essays featuring stoneware jars in the Philippines and the rest of Southeast Asia, offering a comparative picture of jar types, an examination of historical facts as well as trading routes and diverse nationalities relevant to the study of jars and trade into the archipelago, and an ethnographic study of the role of jars in Philippine rituals.

Publisher: Jar Collectors (Philippines)
With the support of
Eugenio Lopez Foundation, Inc.
In cooperation with the
National Museum and the Oriental Ceramic Society of the Philippines
Publication date: 1992
Format: 199 pages, some color illustrations
Size: 22.2 x 29 cm
Language: English

ISBN: 971-91329-0-6