Author: Parke-Bernet GalleriesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 920
Book Description
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Author: Parke-Bernet GalleriesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 920
Book Description
The Heart of the Tree
Author: Rosalie WhyelPublisher:
ISBN: 9780965373319
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
The Heart of the Tree explores the incredible history of early wooden dolls as seen through the collections of the Rosalie Whyel Museum of Doll Art. Take a visual and historical peek at what childhood would have been like from the 1680s to the 1850s, from a time when the United States was not even the United States, to a decade before the Civil War. Featured are rare and exceptional dolls and religious figures from Europe and the New World.
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.
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.
An Introduction to English Glassware to 1900
Author: Charles TrumanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description
Steuben Crystal
Author: Steuben Glass (Firm)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Crystal glass
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description
Pot-lids and Other Coloured Printed Staffordshire Wares
Author: K. V. MortimerPublisher: Antique Collectors Club Dist
ISBN: 9781851494385
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This, the first book on the subject for over twenty years, classifies all known authenticated pot-lids by subject, lists their many variations and sizes, assesses their rarity and value and provides much new information on their history and contents. Errors and omissions in the earlier literature, many perpetuated through successive publications, have been corrected and the whole listing has been renumbered to avoid the anomalies caused by the absence of flexibility in the old system. Every lid has been measured so that all size categories can be accurately defined and rarity has been gauged as accurately as possible by an examination of nearly all auction catalogues from 1924 to 2002. For the first time virtually every item is featured in full colour. The section on ware has been simplified and clarified and many previously unrecorded items are published for the first time. The floral sections have been extensively revised and extended. This is the most comprehensive volume ever produced on this subject and should be the standard reference for years to come.
Kent's Directory ...
Author: Phonetics, Theory and Application
Author: William R. TiffanyPublisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities, Social Sciences & World Languages
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
Crossword Solver
Author: Anne StibbsPublisher: Bloomsbury Pub Limited
ISBN: 9780747550754
Category : Games
Languages : en
Pages : 423
Book Description
An aid to solving crosswords. It contains over 100,000 potential solutions, including plurals, comparative and superlative adjectives, and inflections of verbs. The list extends to first names, place names and technical terms, euphemisms and compound expressions, as well as abbreviations.