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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Catalogue of Valuable China and Glass, Early American and Antique English Silver, Paintings and Engravings ... Clocks, Marbles, Bronzes, Fireplace Brasses, Chinese and Japanese Art Objects, Etc
Author: The Magazine Antiques
Author: Antiques
Author: Country Life
Author: Hobbies
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Category : Collectors and collecting
Languages : en
Pages : 1596
Book Description
Corcoran Gallery of Art
Author: Corcoran Gallery of ArtPublisher: Lucia Marquand
ISBN: 9781555953614
Category : Painting
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This authoritative catalogue of the Corcoran Gallery of Art's renowned collection of pre-1945 American paintings will greatly enhance scholarly and public understanding of one of the finest and most important collections of historic American art in the world. Composed of more than 600 objects dating from 1740 to 1945.
Signs and Symbols
Author: Adrian FrutigerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
Discusses the elements of a sign, and looks at pictograms, alphabets, calligraphy, monograms, text type, numerical signs, symbols, and trademarks.
Harper's Bazaar
Author: Mounted Oriental Porcelain
Author: Francis John Bagott WatsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
Mounted Oriental Porcelain in the J. Paul Getty Museum
Author: Gillian WilsonPublisher: Getty Publications
ISBN: 0892365625
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 130
Book Description
The Getty Museum’s large and exceptional collection of oriental porcelain embellished with Parisian gilt bronze or silver is comprehensively illustrated in this revised catalogue. The European practice of mounting exotic objects such as oriental porcelain dates from the Middle Ages and found its height of expression during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, when Chinese and Japanese porcelains reached the West in considerable quantities. To meet the growing taste for such objects in fashionable Parisian society, marchands-merciers—guild members who combined the functions of the modern interior decorator, antique dealer, and picture dealer—devised ingenious settings in silver and gilt bronze for oriental porcelains, adapting their exotic character to the French interiors of the period. With the publication of this catalogue, the beauty and rarity with which buyers of these pieces were so enamored is vividly brought to life.