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French 18th Century Furniture und Silver Clocks, Tapestries, Rugs. Collection Baron Maurice V. de Vaux
Author: French Eighteenth Century Furniture & Silver, Clocks, Tapestries, Rugs Collected by the Late Baron Maurice V. de Vaux
Author: Rugs and Tapestries, 18th Century Clocks and Sculpture and Important French Furniture
Author: Sotheby's (Firm)Selections from the Decorative Arts in the J. Paul Getty Museum
Author: Gillian WilsonPublisher: Getty Publications
ISBN: 089236050X
Category : Design
Languages : en
Pages : 118
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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.
Rugs and Tapestries, 18th Century Clocks and Sculpture and Important French Furniture
Author: Sotheby & Co. (London, England)Publisher:
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Catalogue of Important French Furniture, Clocks, Works of Art, Sculpture ...
Author: French and Oriental Rugs and Carpets; Tapestries; Ormolu and Works of Art, French Clocks; Fine French Furniture
Author: Sotheby's (Firm)Katalog des Kunsthistorischen Instituts in Florenz
Author: Kunsthistorisches Institut in FlorenzPublisher:
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Category : Art
Languages : un
Pages : 618
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Dutch and Flemish Furniture
Author: Esther SingletonPublisher:
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Category : Furniture
Languages : en
Pages : 498
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Arthur Young's Travels in France
Author: Arthur YoungPublisher:
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 446
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