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Silver Caesars A Renaissance Mystery

Alcorn Ellenor, Bimbenet-Privat Michele, Beard Mary, Koeppe Wolfram, Salomon Xavier F., Schroder Timothy B., Walker Stefanie, Siemon Julia

ISBN: PB: 9781588396396, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, February 2018
304 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 250 colour illus.

The twelve silver-gilt cups known as the Aldobrandini Tazze – magnificent examples of 16th-century European goldsmithing in size, design, and quality of execution – feature figures and scenes from Roman historian Suetonius's classic work "The Twelve...

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Silver Judaica From the Collection of the Jewish Museum in Prague

Kuntos Jaroslav

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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Stained Glass Radiant Art

Raguin Virginia Chieffo

ISBN: PB: 9781606061534, Getty Publications, September 2013
112 pp., 23x15.4 cm, 80 colour illus.

This is a beautifully illustrated discussion on the making of stained glass and its enduring iconography. Stained glass is a monumental art, a corporate enterprise dependent on collaboration between patron and artist. Combining the fields now known a...

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Shifting Paradigms in Contemporary Ceramics The Garth Clark and Mark Del Vecchio Collection

Clark Garth, Strauss Cindi, Adamson Glenn, Vecchio Mark, Shales Ezra, Veiteberg Jorunn, Burrows Keelin, Elliot Rebecca, Houston Laura, Zooey Martin Elliott

ISBN: HB: 9780300169973, Yale University Press, April 2012
576 pp., 30.5x24.8 cm, 702 colour illus.

As gallerists and collectors, Garth Clark and Mark Del Vecchio have helped shape the field of ceramics by expanding notions of the medium's possibilities. This comprehensive catalogue features, for the first time in its entirety, their esteemed colle...

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Summary Catalogue of European Decorative Arts in the J. Paul Museum

Wilson Gillian, Hess Catherine

ISBN: PB: 9780892366323, Getty Publications, March 2006
320 pp., 25.5x23 cm, 596 black&white illus.

J. Paul Getty had a passion for the exquisitely made furniture and decorative objects of eighteenth-century France, which he began collecting in the 1930s. Gillian Wilson, curator of decorative arts since 1971, has broadened and strengthened the coll...

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Silver in London The Parker and Wakelin Partnership 1760-1776

Clifford Helen

ISBN: HB: 9780300103892, Yale University Press, October 2004
320 pp., 28.5x24.5 cm, 60 colour images, 120 black&white illus.

The firm of Parker and Wakelin was the foremost silversmith in London for much of the eighteenth century, supplying royalty, aristocracy, and gentry with both domestic and ceremonial plate. This fascinating book draws on the firm's records for this p...

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Catalogue Raisonne

Secular Furniture of E. W. Godwin With Catalogue Raisonnae

Weber Soros Susan

ISBN: HB: 9780300081596, Yale University Press, December 1999
298 pp., 28.5x24.5 cm, 240 colour plates, 120 black&white illus.

A study of the furniture designs of E. W. Godwin. Taking the form of a catalogue raisonne, it documents and reproduces all known examples of his secular furniture and related furniture designs. It traces the development of his style, examines its sou...

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