Interesting Collection Of Pistols Oriental And European Works Of Art Old English And Other Furniture Oriental Rugs And Carpets English Continental And Islamic Porcelain And Pottery Jades Bronzes Ormolu Etc A Rare Jacobean Oak Miniature Dresser
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Interesting Collection Of Pistols Oriental And European Works Of Art Old English And Other Furniture Oriental Rugs And Carpets English Continental And Islamic Porcelain And Pottery Jades Bronzes Ormolu Etc A Rare Jacobean Oak Miniature Dresser
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Author : Sotheby & Co. (London, England)
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1944
Interesting Collection Of Pistols Oriental And European Works Of Art Old English And Other Furniture Oriental Rugs And Carpets English Continental And Islamic Porcelain And Pottery Jades Bronzes Ormolu Etc A Rare Jacobean Oak Miniature Dresser written by Sotheby & Co. (London, England) and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1944 with categories.
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Author : Teresa Canepa
language : en
Publisher: Ad Ilissvm
Release Date : 2021
written by Teresa Canepa and has been published by Ad Ilissvm this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021 with Porcelain, Chinese categories.
This book celebrates the most important collection of 17th-century Chinese porcelain in the world, assembled by the distinguished British diplomat Sir Michael Butler. His passion for porcelain is clearly reflected in the over eight hundred pieces he collected and lived with at his home and private museum in Dorset. The pots (as Sir Michael called them), many of extreme rarity or exquisite quality, give testimony to the incredible depth of knowledge he acquired over five decades and his outstanding contribution to research and education in this previously neglected field of study. This lavish and comprehensive collection covers most types of porcelain produced at Jingdezhen, in Jiangxi province, during the 17th century. The variety of the pieces carefully acquired by Sir Michael reflects the great innovative spirit of the highly skilled Jingdezhen potters and painters at a time when they were released from the controls of Imperial patronage, between the end of the reign of the Ming Emperor Wanli in 1620 and the re-establishment of the Imperial kilns by the Qing Emperor Kangxi in 1683. It is a study collection of porcelain unrivalled in its breath and rarity that demonstrates the stylistic and qualitative evolution which occurred in Chinese porcelain production during the 17th century. An introduction written by Katharine Butler tells the fascinating story of the circumstances that encouraged her father to acquire, collect and passionately study Chinese porcelain of the 17th century; how he found rare pieces with dates, interesting inscriptions, seal marksor narrative scenes; and how the collection and his scholarly publications came to be internationally renowned. The core of the book is composed of nine sections presenting the main categories of porcelains in the collection: Late Ming, High Transitional, Shunzhi, Early Kangxi, Mid-Late Kangxi, Monochromes and Famille Verte, as well as disputed pieces. Some of the highlights are the extremely rare High Transitional pieces painted only in overglaze enamels dating to the Chongzhen reign, c.1640-43; the first piece acquired by Sir Michael, a green enamel winepot, dating to the early Kangxi reign, c.1665-70; a group of rare dated Zhonghe Tang pieces painted in underglaze blue and red, and an early Kangxi basin finely painted in underglaze blue and red with a Master of the Rocks landscape, dating to c.1670-75. Leaping the Dragon Gate refers to the symbolic metamorphosis from a humble carp to a mighty dragon - the most powerful of the Four Divine Creatures - that a student would undergo on succeeding in the Jinshi or Imperial civil service examinations. Passing these examinations required years, sometimes decades, of enormous effort to acquire the requisite educational merit and success was very rare. It is a worthy metaphor for Sir Michael's scholarly achievement. This 384-page book with over 600 colour illustrations is a catalogue raisonné of almost his entire 17th century porcelain collection, including many previously unpublished pieces. In the spirit of keeping the family legacy of acquisition and scholarship alive, the authors have included a few important, recently purchased pieces and also have revised and expanded the list of all known dated pieces of 17th Century Chinese porcelain in the world that Sir Michael compiled in his 1992 USA exhibition catalogue.
Fonthill Recovered
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Author : Caroline Dakers
language : en
Publisher: UCL Press
Release Date : 2018-05-16
Fonthill Recovered written by Caroline Dakers and has been published by UCL Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-05-16 with History categories.
Fonthill, in Wiltshire, is traditionally associated with the writer and collector William Beckford who built his Gothic fantasy house called Fonthill Abbey at the end of the eighteenth century. The collapse of the Abbey’s tower in 1825 transformed the name Fonthill into a symbol for overarching ambition and folly, a sublime ruin. Fonthill is, however, much more than the story of one man’s excesses. Beckford’s Abbey is only one of several important houses to be built on the estate since the early sixteenth century, all of them eventually consumed by fire or deliberately demolished, and all of them oddly forgotten by historians. Little now remains: a tower, a stable block, a kitchen range, some dressed stone, an indentation in a field. Fonthill Recovered draws on histories of art and architecture, politics and economics to explore the rich cultural history of this famous Wiltshire estate. The first half of the book traces the occupation of Fonthill from the Bronze Age to the twenty-first century. Some of the owners surpassed Beckford in terms of their wealth, their collections, their political power and even, in one case, their sexual misdemeanours. They include Charles I’s Chancellor of the Exchequer, and the richest commoner in the nineteenth century. The second half of the book consists of essays on specific topics, filling out such crucial areas as the complex history of the designed landscape, the sources of the Beckfords’ wealth and their collections, and one essay that features the most recent appearance of the Abbey in a video game.
In Pursuit Of Beauty
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Author : Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
language : en
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
Release Date : 1986
In Pursuit Of Beauty written by Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.) and has been published by Metropolitan Museum of Art this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1986 with Aesthetic movement (Art) categories.
"This project is the first comprehensive study of a phenomenon that not only dominated the American arts of the 1870s and 1880s, but also helped set the course of such later developments in the United States as the Arts and Crafts movement, the indigenous interpretation of Art Nouveau, and even the rise of modernism. In fact, the early history of the Metropolitan--its founding, its sponsorship of a school of industrial design, and its display of decorative works--is inextricably tied to the Aesthetic movement and its educational goals. "In Pursuit of Beauty: Americans and the Aesthetic Movement" comprised some 175 objects including furniture, metalwork, stained glass, ceramics, textiles, wallpaper, painting, and sculpture. Some of these had rarely been displayed; others, although familiar, were being shown in new and even startling contexts. The exhibition and catalogue are arranged thematically to illustrate both the major styles of a visually rich movement and the ideas that generated its diversity"--From publisher's description.
Crossword Lists
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Author : Anne Stibbs
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2005
Crossword Lists written by Anne Stibbs and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with Crossword puzzles categories.
Words To Rhyme With
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Author : Willard R. Espy
language : en
Publisher: Checkmark Books
Release Date : 2001
Words To Rhyme With written by Willard R. Espy and has been published by Checkmark Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.
Lists more than 80,000 rhyming words, including single, double, and triple rhymes, and offers information on rhyme schemes, meter, and poetic forms.
Picasso
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Author : Pablo Picasso
language : it
Publisher: Silvana Editoriale
Release Date : 2009
Picasso written by Pablo Picasso and has been published by Silvana Editoriale this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Art categories.
Il catalogo riproduce interamente la Suite 347, di proprietà di Bancaja di Valencia. Tutte le incisioni, appunto 347, realizzate da Picasso tra marzo e ottobre del 1968, rappresentano il "diario di bordo" di un uomo che "senza curarsi delle proprie ansie o di quelle profonde inquietudini che spesso cercava, portandole a galla, di esorcizzare," si apriva "alla percezione del mondo esterno, quel mondo che a un uomo di quasi 87 anni appariva folle, grottesco. Aveva visto ben altro!" La Suite è composta da quattro grandi nuclei tematici: La Celestina, ovvero le stampe selezionate da Picasso per un'edizione della Celestina di Fernando de Rojas, pubblicata dall'atelier Crommelynck nel 1971; Picasso, la sua opera e il suo pubblico, una sorta di presentazione dei soggetti principali e di tutte le tecniche e gli stili utilizzati; Mitologia e circo, in cui affiorano la mitologia mediterranea e i tradizionali temi picassiani: il Don Chisciotte, i personaggi di Rembrandt, Raffaello, le mezzane ecc...; Il pittore e le modelle, incisioni che rimandano a temi della Suite Vollard e a quelli ripresi nella Suite 156 con Degas e Poussin nella parte di voyeur, i moschettieri e le donne rembrandtiane. Inoltre, il tema di Raffaello e la Fornarina, già trattato da Ingres, viene affrontato da Picasso con maggiore ironia e malizia. Annotation Supplied by Informazioni Editoriali
Start With A House Finish With A Collection
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Author : Leslie Anne Miller
language : en
Publisher: Scala Arts Publishers Incorporated
Release Date : 2014
Start With A House Finish With A Collection written by Leslie Anne Miller and has been published by Scala Arts Publishers Incorporated this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014 with Architecture categories.
This book is the story of how a couple’s use of American art and antiques evolved from furnishing a house into a full-blown passion for collecting. Featuring exquisite examples of Hollingsworth and Morris family furniture, Weber boxes, Pennsylvania clocks and Kirk-Stieff silver, as well as American paintings by the Peale family, Edward Hicks, Edward Redfield and Horace Pippin, this museum-calibre collection reveals a pride in the early American sensibility. The combination of text and extraordinary photographs traces this remarkable journey and demonstrates that life can be more than comfortable living among these collections. The compendium catalogues the diversified and important collection, making this a valuable scholarly reference as well as a reading pleasure. 0.
Antique Rugs Carpets
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Author : American Art Association
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1925
Antique Rugs Carpets written by American Art Association and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1925 with Rugs categories.
Steuben Crystal
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Author : Steuben Glass (Firm)
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1956
Steuben Crystal written by Steuben Glass (Firm) and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1956 with Crystal glass categories.