19th Century Lustreware /anglais - Hardcover

Michael, Gibson

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1851493069 ISBN 13: 9781851493067

Verlag: ACC ART BOOKS, 2006

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Book by Gibson Michael

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Lustre is a form of decoration which can be applied to any form of ceramic body, be it earthenware or porcelain. Its popularity in the nineteenth century was immense and there was a huge export market from Britain to Europe and America. Practically every pottery in the north of England had a go at this new and exciting form of decoration. There have been surprisingly few books on lustreware and most of those that have appeared have suffered from a lack of coloured illustrations, almost an essential for a proper coverage of and understanding of the subject. With this new book the situation is redressed. Of the 300 illustrations some 150 are in colour and large numbers in both categories are of pieces, some extremely rare, that have never been seen in print before. Among these are examples from the vast but little-known Gutman collection in the United States, to which country large quantities of lustreware were exported in the nineteenth century. The author is one of the foremost authorities on lus

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• Verlag: ACC ART BOOKS
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2006
• ISBN 10: 1851493069
• ISBN 13: 9781851493067
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 192