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WALLACE COLLECTION CATALOGUES: GLASS AND LIMOGES PAINTED ENAMELS
Suzanne Higgott
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Hardcover. 400 pages, 440 colour illustrations. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: 1DBKESL; AFP; AGC. Dimension: 311 x 253 x 38. Weight: 2792.
The collections of glassware and Limoges painted enamels acquired by Sir Richard Wallace may at first glance seem unlikely bedfellows. Yet both are ‘arts of fire’ and both are ‘vitreous art’, albeit with rather different aesthetic ends. Moreover, the collections of glassware and painted enamels at the Wallace Collection are broadly speaking contemporaneous in date of manufacture. Whereas all of the painted enamels in the collection were made in Limoges over a relatively short period from the late fifteenth to the seventeenth centuries, much of the glassware was made in Venice or elsewhere on the continent in Venetian style (façon ... Read more
The collections of glassware and Limoges painted enamels acquired by Sir Richard Wallace may at first glance seem unlikely bedfellows. Yet both are ‘arts of fire’ and both are ‘vitreous art’, albeit with rather different aesthetic ends. Moreover, the collections of glassware and painted enamels at the Wallace Collection are broadly speaking contemporaneous in date of manufacture. Whereas all of the painted enamels in the collection were made in Limoges over a relatively short period from the late fifteenth to the seventeenth centuries, much of the glassware was made in Venice or elsewhere on the continent in Venetian style (façon ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Paul Holberton Publishing
Number of pages
400
Condition
New
Number of Pages
400
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780900785856
SKU
V9780900785856
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