Athenaeum and Literary Chronicle
Author: James Silk Buckingham
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Published: 1895
Total Pages: 872
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Author: James Silk Buckingham
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Published: 1895
Total Pages: 872
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Published: 1987
Total Pages: 656
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Published: 1983
Total Pages: 278
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Publisher: Macmillan Reference USA
Published: 1987
Total Pages: 632
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Published: 1914
Total Pages: 564
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Giovanna De Lorenzi
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Published: 1988
Total Pages: 726
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Gillian Wilson
Publisher: Getty Publications
Published: 2000-03-16
Total Pages: 130
ISBN-13: 0892365625
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Getty Museum’s large and exceptional collection of oriental porcelain embellished with Parisian gilt bronze or silver is comprehensively illustrated in this revised catalogue. The European practice of mounting exotic objects such as oriental porcelain dates from the Middle Ages and found its height of expression during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, when Chinese and Japanese porcelains reached the West in considerable quantities. To meet the growing taste for such objects in fashionable Parisian society, marchands-merciers—guild members who combined the functions of the modern interior decorator, antique dealer, and picture dealer—devised ingenious settings in silver and gilt bronze for oriental porcelains, adapting their exotic character to the French interiors of the period. With the publication of this catalogue, the beauty and rarity with which buyers of these pieces were so enamored is vividly brought to life.