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Author: Sotheby & Co. (London, England)
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 60

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Author: Sotheby Parke Bernet & Co
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 88

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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 888

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Author: Regina Krahl
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ISBN: 9781898592020
Category : Porcelain
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Author: Mark Jones
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520070875
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 316

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Describes the methods used to make artistic, literary, documentary, and political forgeries and the recent scientific advances in their detection. Includes over 600 objects from the British Museum and many other major collections, from ancient Babylonia to the present day.

Author: Oliver Hoare
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ISBN: 9781843681458
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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This extraordinary and breathtakingly beautiful book celebrates a lifetime of collecting passion. Oliver Hoare, one of London's most distinguished dealers, originally learnt his craft in the company of Bruce Chatwin. His love of the rare, the evocative, the seductive shines out from every stunning object in this collection and the stories that he teases out from them. No one could fail to be drawn into this gorgeous labyrinth. Published to coincide with an exhibition held in the magnificent settings of the Lavery Room in Sir John Millais's studio house in South Kensington, the book includes antiquities from the ancient and classical worlds; objects connected to shamanism, magic and alchemy; engravings by D rer, Hollar and Rembrandt; unusual paintings and textiles; and many curiosities Highlights include: the silver libation cup of M ngke Khan, grandson of Genghis and ruler of an empire that stretched from modern Bucharest to Peking, and Karachi to Novgorod; the apple from the Garden of Eden - a silver pomander belonging to the Stuart Kings, with bite marks, opening to reveal a silver skull; a Scythian (6-7th centuries BC) jade pendant of the endangered Saiga antelope, as finely carved as anything by Faberg ; a bronze Bacchus head from a tripod table belonging to the Emperor Augustus; a limestone bear carved in 3rd millenium BC Bactria. "The point of the exhibition, as its title announces, is to celebrate the fascinating, and often peculiar stories attached to works of art. The criterion for what is presented has little to do with the value of objects and therefore it differs from the more conventional 'Cabinet of Curiosities'. Nor does it reflect the current canon of what is seen as beautiful or culturally significant, although there are significant and beautiful works of art by anyone's standards. The catalogue is, hopefully, the work of a storyteller's art." Oliver Hoare

Author: Stuart Cary Welch
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN: 0030061148
Category : Art, Indic
Languages : en
Pages : 480

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A selection of 333 works of art representing masterpieces of the sacred and court traditions as well as their urban, folk, and tribal heritage.

Author: Charles Robert Ashbee
Publisher: London : Essex House Press : B.T. Batsford
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Category : Aesthetics
Languages : en
Pages : 264

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"Ashbee's most substantial presentation of his ideas on architecture, the arts, town planning and modern life in general, showing the respective influences on him of Bodley, Morris, Frank Lloyd Wright, the English Arts and Crafts movement and American Beaux Arts classicism. It is still stimulating reading today"--abebooks website.

Author: Thomas H ..... King
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 404

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Author: Helmut Brinker
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Category : Cloisonné
Languages : en
Pages : 398

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