Looking at European Ceramics. A guide to technical terms

Hess, Catherine

Cohen, David Harris

Reference

Malibu/London (The J. Paul Petty Museum/ British Museum Press)

What is maiolica?  What is the difference between hard-paste and soft-paste porcelain.  What is a piatto da pompa?  This book offers definitions of these and other terms related to the techniques, processes, and materials used in the making of ceramics in Europe from the Middle Ages throughout the beginning of the twentieth century. Concise and readable explanations of the technical terms most frequently encountered by the museum-goer, accompanied by numerous illustrations of works from the collections of the J. Paul Getty Museum and the British Museum, are presented in an easily portable volume.  The fourth in a series of "Looking at" books co-published with the British Museum Press, this guide will be invaluable to all those wishing to increase their understanding and enjoyment of ceramics.

Looking at European Ceramics: A Guide to Technical Terms

Arts & Photography

Diane Pub Co.

The temporary installation of artwork by Ricky Swallow and Lesley Vance at the Huntington constitutes not only the first time the work of these two artistshusband and wife, sculptor and painterhas been displayed together, but also the first time contemporary art has been installed in the mansion of Henry E. and Arabella Huntington, a Beaux-Arts style structure built early in the 20th century that served as a backdrop to the Huntingtons’ evolving collection of British and French art of the 18th century. Given the relationship of Swallow and Vance’s work to art of the past, the resulting dialogue with the permanent collection will strike the visitor as both familiar and new.Exhibition Dates: November 10, 2012, to March 11, 2013Huntington Library, Art Galleries, and Botanical Gardens, San Marino, CA, November

Lesley Vance and Ricky Swallow at the Huntington

Hudson, Suzanne

Bedford, Christopher

History & Criticism

Huntington Library Press

In 1984 the Getty Museum acquired a collection of Italian Renaissance majolica, or tin-glazed earthenware. This volume catalogues this collection of 45 objects spanning 400 years, including a pair of 18th-century candlesticks representing mythological scenes and a tabletop with hunting scenes.

Italian Maiolica (The Getty Museum Studies on Art)

Oxford University Press

What is maiolica? What is the difference between hard-paste and soft-paste porcelain. What is a piatto da pompa? This book offers definitions of these and other terms related to the techniques, processes, and materials used in the making of ceramics in Europe from the Middle Ages throughout the beginning of the twentieth century. Concise and readable explanations of the technical terms most frequently encountered by the museum-goer, accompanied by numerous illustrations of works from the collections of the J. Paul Getty Museum and the British Museum, are presented in an easily portable volume. The fourth in a series of "Looking at" books co-published with the British Museum Press, this guide will be invaluable to all those wishing to increase their understanding and enjoyment of ceramics.

Cohen, David

J.paul Getty Museum

This beautifully illustrated volume presents sixty-eight objects from one of the world's finest collections of post-classical glass--including such marvels as glass imitating rock-crystal and other semi-precious stones, glass formed into large and intricate shapes, and glass decorated with engraving, enameling, gilding, and carving. Each object is painstakingly described and a series of essays provide a wealth of background information.

European Glass in the J. Paul Getty Museum

Husband, Timothy

Collections, Catalogs & Exhibitions

In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, potters from the Italian village of Castelli dAbruzzo created wares that constitute a final, supremely pictorial phase of the tin-glazed earthenware art know as maiolica. Here, Catharine Hess documents the Gentili/Barabei archive--a recently acquired collection of 276 documents relating to these celebrated ceramics--to show how it illuminates the production of maiolica.

Maiolica in the Making: The Gentili/Barnabei Archive (Bibliographies and Dossiers Series)

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 collection, adding Boulle furniture, mounted oriental porcelain, tapestries, clocks, ceramics, and more. In the 1980s and 1990s the Museum continued to enlarge its decorative arts holdings, creating a European sculpture department in 1984 and adding glass, maiolica, goldsmiths' work, pietre dure, and furniture from Italy and Northern Europe. This book is a revised and expanded edition of Decorative Arts: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue of the Collection of the J. Paul Getty Museum (1993). In addition to more than forty recent acquisitions--among these four wall sconces from Versailles that once belonged to Marie Antoinette and an elaborate upholstered bed from the collection of Karl Lagerfeld--it includes the results of years of research. Designed for scholars, students, and devotees of the decorative arts, this volume provides a comprehensive look at the Getty's fine collection.

Summary Catalogue of European Decorative Arts in the J. Paul Getty Museum (Getty Trust Publications: J. Paul Getty Museum)

Wilson, Gillian

J. Paul Getty Museum, A01

This book catalogues the Getty Museum's fine collection of forty-five Italian ceramic objects spanning four hundred years, including a pair of eighteenth-century candlesticks representing mythological scenes, a tabletop with hunting scenes, and, from the 1790s, the beautifully modeled and painted Saint Joseph with the Christ Child. Containing the most recent scientific, historical, and iconographic information about the Museum's holdings, Italian Ceramics offers a wealth of new information about the Getty Museum's superb collection of Italian ceramic art.

Italian Ceramics: Catalogue of the J. Paul Getty Museum Collections

This newest publication in the popular Looking At series deals with glass terminology. The often arcane technical terms relating to the production and decoration of glass, as well as names of special shapes of glass beakers, are defined in succinct language. Ranging from ancient Roman moldmade glass to modern pressed glass, this glossary is a handy guide for museum-goers and anyone interested in the art of glassmaking. Illustrated with samples of Roman, Renaissance, Victorian, and modern glass, as well as engravings showing glassmakers at work, the book is both a visual delight and an informative small reference work. Objects shown are from the collections of the J. Paul Getty Museum; the Corning Museum of Glass in Corning, New York; and the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. A short bibliography rounds out the volume.

Looking at Glass: A Guide to Terms, Styles, and Techniques

Wight, Karol B

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Looking at European Ceramics. A guide to technical terms

Looking at European Ceramics: A Guide to Technical Terms

Lesley Vance and Ricky Swallow at the Huntington

Italian Maiolica (The Getty Museum Studies on Art)

Looking at European Ceramics: A Guide to Technical Terms

European Glass in the J. Paul Getty Museum

Maiolica in the Making: The Gentili/Barnabei Archive (Bibliographies and Dossiers Series)

Summary Catalogue of European Decorative Arts in the J. Paul Getty Museum (Getty Trust Publications: J. Paul Getty Museum)

Italian Ceramics: Catalogue of the J. Paul Getty Museum Collections

Looking at Glass: A Guide to Terms, Styles, and Techniques