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Majolica Mania Transatlantic Pottery in England and the United States, 1850-1915
ISBN: SET: 9780300251043, Yale University Press, November 2020
888 pp., 30.4x24.1 cm, 1200 colour and black&white illus.
Colorful, wildly imaginative, and technically innovative, majolica was functional and aesthetic ceramic ware. Its subject matter reflects a range of 19th-century preoccupations, from botany and zoology to popular humor and the macabre. "Majolica Mani...
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£225,00
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J. Lockwood Kipling Bombay, the Punjab, South Kensington
ISBN: HB: 9780300221596, Yale University Press, January 2017
602 pp., 28x21.6 cm, 700 colour illus., 37 black&white illus.
John Lockwood Kipling (1837-1911) started his career as an architectural sculptor at the South Kensington Museum (today the Victoria and Albert Museum). Much of his life, however, was spent in British India, where his son Rudyard was born. He taught...
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£50,00
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Swedish Wooden Toys
ISBN: HB: 9780300200751, Yale University Press, June 2014
352 pp., 30.5x22.9 cm, 360 colour images, 50 black&white illus.
Combining the best of Scandinavian design with a plentiful indigenous supply of trees, the Swedish toy industry has long produced vast quantities of colourful, quality wooden items. This superbly illustrated book, including specially commissioned pho...
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£50,00
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History of Design Decorative Arts and Material Culture, 1400-2000
ISBN: HB: 9780300196146, Yale University Press, October 2013
704 pp., 30x24.8 cm, 760 colour and black&white illus.
Spanning six centuries of global design, this far-reaching survey is the first to offer an account of the vast history of decorative arts and design produced in Africa, the Americas, Asia, Europe, the Indian subcontinent, and the Islamic world, from...
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