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Classical Splendor Painted Furniture for a Grand Philadelphia House
ISBN: HB: 9780300221718, Yale University Press, January 2017
160 pp., 25.4x28 cm, 170 colour illus., 22 black&white illus.
This handsome book explores in depth a group of stunning painted and gilded furniture designed by the architect Benjamin Henry Latrobe (1764-1820), best known for originating the plans for the United States Capitol. The furniture was made in Philadel...
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£25,00
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Silver Judaica From the Collection of the Jewish Museum in Prague
ISBN: PB: 9788087366127, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, January 2014
315 pp., 21.5x16.5 cm, 530 colour plates
Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! The Jewish Museum in Prague is home to a variety of silver Jewish ritual artifacts, from Kiddush cups, Hanukkah lamps, and Torah decorations, to the dozens of other objects used in observi...
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£22,50
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Duncan Phyfe Master Cabinetmaker in New York
ISBN: HB: 9780300155112, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, November 2011
400 pp., 30.5x22.9 cm, 250 colour images, 100 black&white illus.
Duncan Phyfe (1768-1854), known during his lifetime as the "United States Rage", to this day remains America's best-known cabinetmaker. Establishing his reputation as a purveyor of luxury by designing high-quality furniture for New York's moneyed eli...
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£50,00
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Irish Furniture Woodwork and Carving in Ireland from the Earliest Times to the Act of Union
ISBN: HB: 9780300117158, Yale University Press, April 2007
488 pp., 30.5x25 cm, 400 colour images, 100 black&white illus.
This lavishly illustrated and comprehensive volume is the first devoted entirely to the subject of Irish furniture and woodwork. It provides a detailed survey, encompassing everything from medieval choir stalls to magnificent drawing-room suites for...
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£65,00
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Cesnola Collection Terracottas
ISBN: CD: 9780300102840, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, September 2004
0 pp., 0x0 cm
The Cesnola Collection of antiquities was assembled on Cyprus in the 1860s and 1870s by Luigi Palma de Cesnola, who sold it to The Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1872. Cesnola subsequently served as the institution's first director. Numbering around 6...
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£25,00
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