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Art of Japanese Craft 1875 to the Present
ISBN: PB: 9780300142129, Yale University Press, October 2008
60 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 74 colour images, 70 black&white illus.
From Japan's first forays onto the international stage of world's fairs in the late nineteenth century to the dynamic creativity of the 1920 and 1930s, from the heady post-World War II period to the present day, Japanese crafts have exhibited a rich...
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£15,99
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European Tapestries in the Art Institute of Chicago
ISBN: HB: 9780300119602, Yale University Press, A+D Series, September 2008
450 pp., 30.5x24.8 cm, 200 colour images, 200 black&white illus.
This lavishly illustrated book presents a rich variety of European tapestries from the Art Institute of Chicago. These exquisite tapestries include medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque examples, manufactured at almost all the major centres of productio...
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£40,00
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French Furniture and Gilt Bronzes Baroque and Regence
ISBN: HB: 9780892368747, Getty Publications, May 2008
464 pp., 30.4x22.4 cm, 105 colour illus., 432 black&white illus.
The exceptional collection of French decorative arts in the J. Paul Getty Museum contains more than 400 pieces, most of them dating from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. This exquisitely illustrated volume brings together forty-four objects...
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£95,00
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Fragile Diplomacy Meissen Porcelain for European Courts, 1710-1763
ISBN: HB: 9780300126815, Yale University Press, January 2008
400 pp., 30.5x24.8 cm, 400 colour illus.
While imported Chinese porcelain had become a valuable commodity in Europe in the seventeenth century, local attempts to produce porcelain long remained unsuccessful. At last, the secret of hard-paste porcelain was uncovered, and in 1710, the first E...
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£65,00
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American Presidential China The Robert L. McNeil, Jr., Collection at the Philadelphia Museum of Art
ISBN: HB: 9780300135930, Yale University Press, January 2008
91 pp., 24.1x24.1 cm, 6 black&white illus., 94 colour illus.
The china used by the First Families, both at the White House and in their private homes, reveals a fascinating story of culture and society as it has evolved in the United States since its early days. In this handsome book, which documents over 200...
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£19,99
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