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English And Continental Silver And Gold Plate
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Author :Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.) Publisher :Metropolitan Museum of Art ISBN 13 :0870991698 Total Pages :218 pages Book Rating :4.8/5 (79 download)
Book Synopsis Highlights of the Untermyer Collection of English and Continental Decorative Arts by : Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
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Book Synopsis Silver in England by : Philippa Glanville
Download or read book Silver in England written by Philippa Glanville and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-11-05 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 2005. Silver is unique among the decorative arts in that its raw material is both inherently valuable and infinitely reusable. Its ownership has been a social bench-mark and its form has exercised the skills of sculptors, designers, chasers and engravers, but ultimately it could be, and normally was, melted down and refashioned quite without sentiment. Because of this constant recycling, the survival of any individual object is quite random and unrelated to its uniqueness or otherwise in its period. Hitherto plate historians have focused on individual objects almost to the exclusion of the context - social or economic - from which they came but now that context is seen as crucial in understanding historic plate. So in the first section of this book each chapter considers contemporary attitudes and usage.
Book Synopsis 'A Marvel to Behold' by : Timothy Schroder
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Book Synopsis An Illustrated History of English Plate, Ecclesiastical and Secular by :
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Book Synopsis Early American Silver in The Metropolitan Museum of Art by : Wees, Beth Carver
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Book Synopsis The Mining and Metallurgy of Gold and Silver by : John Arthur Phillips
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Book Synopsis Review of the Principal Acquisitions by : Victoria and Albert Museum
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