An introduction to English glassware to 1900 (V & A introductions to the decorative arts)

Arts & Photography

Truman, Charles

Other Media

H.M.S.O.

<p>This volume catalogs more than four hundred decorative objects in the Robert Lehman Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, including painted enamels, snuffboxes, porcelain, pottery, ceramics, jewelry, furniture, cast metal, and textiles from throughout Europe and Asia, with the majority dating from the late seventh century to the twentieth century. Highlights include a a superb seventeenth-century oval-shaped watch decorated with enamels by the master Susanne de Court of Limoges; a dazzling domed cup supported by a carved alabaster figure of a bearded Turk, replete with jewels and precious stones, crafted in early eighteenth-century Germany; and a French secretaire from the 1780s set with painted enamels from the famed Sèvres Manufactory. Provenance information, exhibition histories, and references are provided, and selected comparative illustrations are incorporated. The volume also includes a bibliography and an index.</p>

The Robert Lehman Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Volume XV: Decorative Arts (Robert Lehman Collection in the Metropolitan Museum of Art)

Le Corbeiller, Clare

Vincent, Clare

Koeppe, Wolfram

Valenstein, Suzanne G.

Rieder, William

History & Criticism

Princeton University Press

The Gilbert Collection of Gold Boxes

Collections, Catalogs & Exhibitions

Harry N.Abrams, Inc.

A catalogue of 87 works with authoritative introductions. Although concerned with one particularly fine collection, this book provides a comprehensive account of the objets de luxe made during the Renaissance, throughout the eighteenth century and at the Russian court of 1900.There is an extensive introduction and in the catalogue which follows, as well as illustrating the items from the collection, many comparative pieces are included, together with the graphic sources and marks where these apply.

Renaissance Jewels, Gold Boxes and Objets De Vertu: The Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection

Cocks, Anner Somers

Philip Wilson Publishers

Renaissance Jewels, Gold Boxes, and Objets De Vertu: From the Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection

De Pury, Simon

Cocks, Anna Somers

Sammlung Thyssen-Bornemisza

Rizzoli Intl Pubns

The Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Collection is the most comprehensive assemblage of 18th-century gold boxes still in private hands. This volume is a catalogue of the collection, which includes 149 masterpieces, most of them snuff-boxes.

The Gilbert collection of gold boxes

Reference

Catalogs & Directories

Distributed by H.N. Abrams

Introduction to English Glassware to 1900

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Antiques & Collectibles

Stemmer House Pub

The 18th-century gold snuffbox was the ultimate fashion accessory – beautifully made, exquisitely decorated and very expensive, its form and ornament subject to the changing taste of the time. Playing an important role in self-promotion, diplomacy and collecting, a box denoted status and could be used as currency for its monetary value. Its practical purpose was usually secondary.The collection of gold boxes at the Wallace Collection is small in number, but contains some of the finest in any museum and can boast of some of the most famous boxes in the world. The 99 pieces catalogued here represent a brilliant cross-section of the products of the European goldsmith between c. 1730 and 1830.The French boxes will be well known to collectors and students of these remarkable examples of the ability of goldsmiths, enamelers, lapidaries and miniaturists to create something novel for each of their discerning clients. The most famous makers in Paris – Jean Ducrollay, Pierre-François Drais, Jean-Marie Tiron, Jean Frémin and Louis Roucel– are well represented. However, research by Charles Truman, one of the world’s leading experts on gold boxes, has changed the geography of the collection. We now know that most of the boxes previously considered Swiss were actually made in Germany. Outstanding examples – from Hanau, Berlin and Dresden in particular – have now joined the masterworks of the French goldsmiths. Among them is one of rare beauty by Johann Christian Neuber, as well as signed enameled examples by Ignatius Peter Krafft and Jean-Guillaume-George Krüger.In the introductory essay, Charles Truman discusses the history of snuff-taking and the development, manufacture and collecting of gold boxes. Throughout the catalogue he places a particular emphasis on the design sources from which the craftsmen responsible for these wonderful works of art took their inspiration. Like the entire Collection, the Wallace gold boxes are a monument to the taste of one family of great collectors. Rebecca Wallis discusses the history of collecting and display of the Wallace boxes, which were acquired over a period of fifty years only and reflect the taste for these exquisite objects during the middle decades of the nineteenth century. Scientific analysis of the boxes by Seoyoung Kim has brought new insights into the standards of gold used in Europe, and in particular the wide variations in those standards even in the best-regulated cities.This beautiful publication considerably advances our knowledge and appreciation of the Wallace Collection’s gold boxes and establishes their place in the scholarship of 18th-century decorative arts.

The Wallace Collection Catalogues of Gold Boxes

Decorative Arts & Design

Paul Holberton Publishing

Sevres Egyptian Service, 1810-12

Victoria and Albert Museum

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