Isbn: 9780917046834 - a noble feast: english silver from the jerome and rita gans collection at the virginia museum of fine arts (8 Ergebnisse)

Soft cover. Zustand: Near Fine. Softcover; very minimal wear, nearly new.

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Soft cover. Zustand: Fine. Clean unmarked, crease free spine. BP/Silver.

Softcover. Black and illustrated wraps, French flaps, 96 pp. Color plates. "Amassed over a period of some thirty years, the collection of Rita and the late Jerome Gans is one of the glories of the Virginia Museum of FIne Arts and one of the leading silver collections in the United States. Works by such celebrated masters as Paul de Lamerie; Paul Storr; Rundell, Bridge & Rundell; and Robert Garrard are well represented. Besides giving a survey of its historical and social themes, this book also features an updated catalogue of the collection, now to be seen in an elegant new gallery at the museum." (back cover) Most of the 102 exhibited pieces are seen here, interspersed with the narrative. Exquisite. VG, shelf wear and some rubbing on wraps, may have light soiling on title page, clean otherwise.…

cm 22x30 pag. 96 ill. 189 col Volume sugli argenti inglesi edito per l'apertura del nuovo Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Inglese.

Paperback. Zustand: New. Celebrating the stunning beauty of English silver crafted over three centuries, A Noble Feast offers unique insight into the developments that took place in eating and drinking habits in Stuart, Hanoverian, and Victorian England. Foreign influences, not only from France, Spain, and Italy but also from the New World, figure prominently in the customs of the tabletop during this period of English history. Drawing on colorful details from menus, cookery books, and anecdotes about the owners of these magnificent silver tablewares, Christopher Hartop shows how the silver reflects burgeoning prosperity in Restoration London and global expansion of the British Empire in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.Through examples taken from the Gans Collection -- one of the leading silver collections in the United States -- Hartop documents the confidence in artistic endeavor as well as in trade and industry that typified the age. With works by such celebrated masters as Paul de Lamerie, Paul Storr, Robert Garrard, and Rundell, Bridge & Rundell, the collection offers a veritable feast of silver splendor, here highlighted by lush color illustrations and an updated catalogue. …