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Going for Gold
Dr Tessa Murdoch
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Description for Going for Gold
Hardcover. Editor(s): Murdoch, Tessa; Zech, Heike. Num Pages: 256 pages, 70 colour illus. BIC Classification: WCR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 304 x 216 x 20. Weight in Grams: 1356.
This book examines the art of the gold box in 18th and 19th century Europe. Distinguished international scholars explore the contributions made by individual workshops in major European centres of production in the context of contemporary patronage and the international market for such boxes. Consideration is given to the design of gold boxes with reference to the V&A's important collection of design drawings. Leading experts explore the ways in which different techniques of gold box decoration -- portrait miniatures, gems, enamels, mosaics and hard-stones -- were developed. Contributors to the volume include experts from Amsterdam, Berlin, Dresden, London, Munich, New ... Read more
This book examines the art of the gold box in 18th and 19th century Europe. Distinguished international scholars explore the contributions made by individual workshops in major European centres of production in the context of contemporary patronage and the international market for such boxes. Consideration is given to the design of gold boxes with reference to the V&A's important collection of design drawings. Leading experts explore the ways in which different techniques of gold box decoration -- portrait miniatures, gems, enamels, mosaics and hard-stones -- were developed. Contributors to the volume include experts from Amsterdam, Berlin, Dresden, London, Munich, New ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Sussex Academic Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
256
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Liverpool, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781845194659
SKU
V9781845194659
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99-50
About Dr Tessa Murdoch
Dr Tessa Murdoch is Deputy Keeper of the Sculpture, Ceramics, Metalwork and Glass Department at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, and recently curated the exhibition Treasures of the Royal Courts: Tudors, Stuarts and the Russian Tsars. Dr Heike Zech is curator of the Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Collection at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London.
Reviews for Going for Gold
Book of the Month - The Goldsmiths' Company (June 2014)