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Bejewelled Men and Jewellery in Tudor and Jacobean England

Awais-Dean Natasha

ISBN: PB: 9780861592098, Casemate, British Museum Press, December 2017
200 pp., 29.7x21 cm, 160 illus.

Jewellery is often viewed as a feminine preoccupation, but in Tudor and Jacobean England men wore just as much (if not more) jewellery as their female counterparts. Jewels themselves were valued not merely for their intrinsic monetary worth, but also...

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Things of Beauty Growing British Studio Pottery

Adamson Glenn, Droth Martina, Olding Simon

ISBN: HB: 9780300227468, Yale University Press, September 2017
472 pp., 27.9x22.9 cm, 316 colour illus.

For nearly a century British potters have invigorated traditional ceramic forms by developing or reinventing techniques, materials, and means of display. "Things of Beauty Growing" explores major typologies of the vessel – such as bowl, vase, and cha...

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Golden Kingdoms Luxury Arts in the Ancient Americas

Pillsbury Joanne, Potts Timothy, Richter Kim N.

ISBN: HB: 9781606065488, Getty Publications, September 2017
320 pp., 25x15 cm, illus.

This volume accompanies a major international loan exhibition featuring some three hundred works of art rarely or never before seen in the United States. It traces the development of gold working and other luxury arts in the Americas from antiquity u...

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FABERGE From St Petersburg to Sandringham

Collins Ian

ISBN: PB: 9780946009718, Casemate, Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, September 2017
144 pp., 26.5x21 cm, 150 illus.

In 1907 Edward VII commissioned Peter Carl Faberge – court artist-jeweller to imperial Russia – to produce miniature sculptures of animals on the royal estate at Sandringham. Designed to please Queen Alexandra, the project was suggested by the king's...

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Ancient Lamps in the J. Paul Getty Museum

Bussiere Jean, Lindros Wohl Birgitta

ISBN: PB: 9781606065136, Getty Publications, August 2017
510 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 1 map, 56 line drawings

In the collection of the J. Paul Getty Museum are more than six hundred ancient lamps that span the sixth century BCE to the seventh century CE, most from the Roman Imperial period and largely created in Asia Minor or North Africa. These lamps have m...

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American Furniture 2016 American Furniture Annual

Beckerdite Luke

ISBN: HB: 9780986385704, Casemate, Chipstone Foundation, June 2017
200 pp., 28.6x21.3 cm

Acknowledged as the journal of record in its field, American Furniture presents new research on furniture design, use, production, and appreciation. Begun in 1993, this award-winning annual provides a comprehensive forum on furniture history, technol...

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Rothschild Renaissance A New Look at the Waddesdon Bequest in the British Museum

Shirley Pippa, ? Thornton Dora

ISBN: PB: 9780861592128, Casemate, British Museum Press, June 2017
200 pp., 29.7x21 cm, 230 illus.

In 1898, Baron Ferdinand de Rothschild bequeathed to the British Museum the contents from the New Smoking Room at Waddesdon Manor, a collection of nearly 300 objects to be known as the Waddesdon Bequest. The Bequest contains some of the most beautifu...

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American Silver in the Art Institute of Chicago

McGoey Elizabeth, Barquist David L., Barter Judith A., Harvey Medill Higgins, Kane Patricia E., Wagner Ann, Ward Gerald W. R., Waters Deborah Dependahl, Wees Beth Carver, Bach Deborah Schmidt

ISBN: HB: 9780300222364, Yale University Press, A+D Series, February 2017
224 pp., 30.5x24.1 cm, 151 black&white illus., 196 colour illus.

The history of American silver offers invaluable insights into the economic and cultural history of the nation itself. Published here for the first time, the Art Institute of Chicago's superb collection embodies innovation and beauty from the colonia...

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Classical Splendor Painted Furniture for a Grand Philadelphia House

Kirtley Alexandra, Olley Peggy A., Cohen Jeffrey A.

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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Ceramics in America 2016 Ceramics in America Annual

Hunter Robert

ISBN: HB: 9780982772287, Casemate, Chipstone Foundation, January 2017
232 pp., 28.6x21.3 cm, 280 colour illus.

Acknowledged as the journal of record in its field, American Furniture presents new research on furniture design, use, production, and appreciation. Begun in 1993, this award-winning annual provides a comprehensive forum on furniture history, technol...

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