Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 668
Book Description
Art and Auctions
Author: The Burlington Magazine
Author: Country Life
Author: Newsletter
Author: Sotheby Parke Bernet IncPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
Country Life Illustrated
Author: Burlington Magazine for Connoisseurs
Author: Robert Edward DellPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
The Connoisseur
Author: Selections from the Decorative Arts in the J. Paul Getty Museum
Author: Gillian WilsonPublisher: Getty Publications
ISBN: 089236050X
Category : Design
Languages : en
Pages : 118
Book Description
J. Paul Getty began to collect French decorative arts in the 1930s and continued to do so until his death in 1976. The Museum’s collection has continued to grow since then at a rapid pace and contains over three hundred individual pieces at the time this book is published. This volume illustrates fifty of them. The selection represents a cross section of the collection, which covers the period from approximately 1660 to 1800. In the eighteenth century it became fashionable in Parisian society to decorate the interiors of houses with Far Eastern materials such as lacquer and porcelain. This taste was catered to by the marchands-merciers, members of a guild who combined the functions of the modern interior decorator, the antique dealer, and the picture dealer. These men devised highly ingenious settings for Far Eastern porcelains to adapt their exotic character to the French interiors of the period. Information about them and their clientele has been used in cataloguing the Getty Museum’s collection of mounted oriental porcelain, which is large and of high quality. This book is not a catalogue, nor is it a mere picture book or checklist. Each piece has been chosen because it represents a particular aspect of the crafts involved in the production of objects that were made by Parisian craftsmen for the crown, the nobility, and the rich bourgeoisie. The pieces are arranged in chronological order. Translations of the French archival extracts, an index, and a concise bibliography have been provided.
Apollo
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 866
Book Description
The magazine of the arts for connoisseurs and collectors.
The Pleasures of Collecting
Author: Gardner Callahan TeallPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art objects
Languages : en
Pages : 382
Book Description