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Old Limoges
Wood, Barbara; Doares, Robert
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Description for Old Limoges
Num Pages: 272 pages, 450 color & b/w illustrations. BIC Classification: WC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 286 x 224 x 27. Weight in Grams: 1582.
Seldom does the début of an antiques publication introduce a completely new area of collecting, but that’s exactly what this book does. The authors turn the world of mid-nineteenth-century French porcelain upside-down through their interpretation of two recently discovered factory books from the earliest years of the Haviland porcelain works at Limoges. Shape drawings from a mysterious volume at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, complemented by paintings and prints from a heretofore unknown design catalog preserved in the Haviland family, reveal the shattering truth that many pieces of anonymous “Old Paris” in collections today are actually Limoges porcelains designed, decorated, ... Read more
Seldom does the début of an antiques publication introduce a completely new area of collecting, but that’s exactly what this book does. The authors turn the world of mid-nineteenth-century French porcelain upside-down through their interpretation of two recently discovered factory books from the earliest years of the Haviland porcelain works at Limoges. Shape drawings from a mysterious volume at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, complemented by paintings and prints from a heretofore unknown design catalog preserved in the Haviland family, reveal the shattering truth that many pieces of anonymous “Old Paris” in collections today are actually Limoges porcelains designed, decorated, ... Read more
Product Details
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Schiffer Publishing Ltd United States
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
Number of Pages
272
Format
Hardback
Place of Publication
Atglen, United States
ISBN
9780764323119
SKU
V9780764323119
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Ref
99-2
About Wood, Barbara; Doares, Robert
The husband and wife team of Robert Doares and Barbara Wood, both employed by the Historic Williamsburg Foundation, have discovered the mutual joys of Haviland and research. They reside in Williamsburg, Virginia.
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