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Unique by Design Contemporary Jewelry from the Donna Schneier Collection

Ramljak Suzanne

ISBN: PB: 9780300208764, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, August 2014
136 pp., 26.7x20.3 cm, 101 colour illus.

Studio jewellery dissolves the modern distinction between decorative and fine arts. The 60 pieces in this lively volume, collected by Donna Schneier and donated to The Metropolitan Museum of Art, were crested primarily from the early 1960s to the pre...

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Jewels by JAR

Sassoon Adrian

ISBN: HB: 9780300198683, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, November 2013
120 pp., 22.9x20.3 cm, 65 colour illus.

Called "the Faberge of our time" by Diane von Furstenberg, Joel A. Rosenthal, who works in Paris under the name JAR, is one of the most acclaimed jewellery designers of the past thirty years. JAR is known for his use of precious and semi-precious sto...

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Deadly Art European Crossbows, 1250-1850

Breiding Dirk H.

ISBN: PB: 9780300197044, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, October 2013
144 pp., 21.6x24.1 cm, 100 colour illus.

The advent of the crossbow more than 2,500 years ago effected dramatic changes for hunters and warriors. For centuries, it was among the most powerful and widely used handheld weapons, and its popularity endures to this day. "A Deadly Art" presents a...

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Cloisters Medieval Art and Architecture

Barnet Peter, Wu Nancy

ISBN: PB: 9780300187205, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, January 2013
204 pp., 24.8x17.1 cm, 200 colour illus.

Home to an extraordinary collection of treasured masterworks, including the famed Unicorn Tapestries, The Cloisters is devoted to the art and architecture of medieval Europe. This splendid new guide, published to celebrate The Cloisters' seventy-fift...

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Duncan Phyfe Master Cabinetmaker in New York

Kenny Peter M., Brown Michael K., Bretter Frances F., Thurlow Matthew A.

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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Turkmen Silver Jewelry and Ornaments from the Marshall and Marilyn Wolf Collection

Diba Layla S.

ISBN: HB: 9780300124040, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, June 2011
250 pp., 25x15 cm, 20 black&white illus., 250 colour illus.

The Turkmen people of Central Asia and Iran are revered for their carpets and textiles. Less well known, but equally stunning, is the extraordinary silver jewelry created by Turkmen tribal craftsmen and urban silversmiths throughout the 19th and earl...

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American Furniture in the Metropolitan Museum of Art Volume 1: Early Colonial Period: The Seventeenth Century and William and Mary Styles

Gruber Safford Frances

ISBN: HB: 9780300116472, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, November 2007
464 pp., 30.5x22.9 cm, 158 colour illus., 170 black&white illus.

The Metropolitan Museum's preeminent collection of early colonial furniture is expertly documented in this long-awaited publication. It covers the full spectrum of furniture forms made during the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, from chair...

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Unicorn Tapestries at the Metropolitan Museum of Art

Cavallo Adolfo Salvatore

ISBN: PB: 9780300106305, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, April 2005
128 pp., 30.4x22.8 cm, 77 colour images, 14 black&white illus.

The unicorn tapestries are one of the most popular attractions at The Cloisters, the medieval branch of The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Traditionally known as The Hunt of the Unicorn, this set of seven exquisite and enigmatic tapestries was likely co...

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Cesnola Collection Terracottas

Karageorghis Vassos, Merker Gloria S., Mertens Joan R.

ISBN: CD: 9780300102840, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, September 2004
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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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