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Gold Boxes and Miniatures of the Eighteenth Century
£200.00 Buy Most prominent among these objects are the series of gold boxes made by leading Paris goldsmiths of the 1760's & 1780's and mounted with miniatures painted by the Van Blarenberghes. This group is one of the largest painted by this family, besides snuffboxes there are also bonbonnières, patch boxes, needlecases and other containers, in gold, sometimes enamelled, in hardstones, or covered in shagreen, and other precious materials. The creation and composition of the boxes in this exceptionally important collection, as well as the context in which they were used, are studied both in the introduction and in the catalogue entries. Authors: Serge Grandjean, Kirsten Aschengreen Piacenti, Charles Truman and Anthony Blun. -
Catalogue of Drawings for Architecture, Design and Ornament
£250.00 Buy Remarkable for the sheer abundance and quality of works by virtually every French 18th-century ornementiste or architect of note (Oppenord, Meissonier, Delafosse, Pillement, Cauvet, Gillot and Berain to name but a few), the catalogue also includes key contributions from their 17th-century precursors and a significant complement of German as well as Dutch and Italian designs. 2 volumes, 1080 entries, 1100 drawings reproduced in black and white, 96 colour plates. The catalogue has been compiled by leading scholars in the field and as a result is a major contribution to the understanding of an as yet little explored area of art history, collecting and material culture. The majority of the drawings are previously unpublished, so the collection is not as well-known as it deserves to be, although a small selection are displayed in changing exhibitions annually at the Manor. -
Windmill Hill Waddesdon: Architecture, Archives and Art
£20.00 Buy A catalogue written by Colin Amery with Pippa Shirley and Stephen Marshall to mark the opening of a new building on Windmill Hill, at the heart of the Waddesdon Estate, home for the archives of the Manor, the estate and the family papers of the Rothschilds who have, for four generations, been responsible for Waddesdon.
