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Languages : en
Pages : 16
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Articles of a Society of Tradesmen and Others, Held at the House of George Randle, Anchor Inn, Coventry Street, Stourbridge
Author: The History of Signboards, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day
Author: Jacob LarwoodPublisher:
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Category : Signs and signboards
Languages : en
Pages : 604
Book Description
British Popular Customs, Present and Past
Author: Thomas Firminger Thiselton DyerPublisher:
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Category : Folklore
Languages : en
Pages : 560
Book Description
Dictionary of English Furniture Makers, 1660-1840
Author: Geoffrey W. BeardPublisher: Routledge
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 1088
Book Description
A reference work on furniture makers active in England between 1660 and 1840. It lists makers in alphabetical order, recording biographical details, commissions, and information about signed or documented pieces, together with full supporting references.
The Every-day Book
Author: William HonePublisher:
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Category : Calendars
Languages : en
Pages : 846
Book Description
The People's Charter; with the Address to the Radical Reformers of Great Britain and Ireland, and a Brief Sketch of Its Origin
Author: Pottery and Porcelain in Colonial Williamsburg's Archaeological Collections
Author: Ivor Noël HumePublisher: Colonial Williamsburg
ISBN: 9780910412070
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
A review of the pottery and porcelain found in Williamsburg, with a summary of the wares and their datable characteristics.
Illustrations of Masonry
Author: William PrestonPublisher:
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Category : Freemasonry
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
Staffordshire Pedigrees Based on the Visitation of that County
Author: William DugdalePublisher:
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Category : Heraldry
Languages : en
Pages : 16
Book Description
The Tastemakers
Author: Diana DavisPublisher: Getty Publications
ISBN: 1606066412
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
An examination of the development, role, and influence of the British decorative art dealers who invented an Anglo-Gallic style for elite interiors. In this volume Diana Davis demonstrates how London dealers invented a new and visually splendid decorative style that combined the contrasting tastes of two nations. Departing from the conventional narrative that depicts dealers as purveyors of antiquarianism, Davis repositions them as innovators who were key to transforming old art objects from ancien régime France into cherished “antiques” and, equally, as creators of new and modified French-inspired furniture, bronze work, and porcelain. The resulting old, new, and reconfigured objects merged aristocratic French eighteenth-century taste with nineteenth-century British preference, and they were prized by collectors, who displayed them side by side in palatial interiors of the period. The Tastemakers analyzes dealer-made furnishings from the nineteenth-century patron’s perspective and in the context of the interiors for which they were created, contending that early dealers deliberately formulated a new aesthetic with its own objects, language, and value. Davis examines a wide variety of documents to piece together the shadowy world of these dealers, who emerge center stage as a traders, makers, and tastemakers.