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Fragile Diplomacy Meissen Porcelain for European Courts, 1710-1763

Geiger Maureen Cassidy

ISBN: HB: 9780300126815, Yale University Press, January 2008
400 pp., 30.5x24.8 cm, 400 colour illus.

While imported Chinese porcelain had become a valuable commodity in Europe in the seventeenth century, local attempts to produce porcelain long remained unsuccessful. At last, the secret of hard-paste porcelain was uncovered, and in 1710, the first E...

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American Presidential China The Robert L. McNeil, Jr., Collection at the Philadelphia Museum of Art

Gray Detweiler Susan, Barquist David L.

ISBN: HB: 9780300135930, Yale University Press, January 2008
91 pp., 24.1x24.1 cm, 6 black&white illus., 94 colour illus.

The china used by the First Families, both at the White House and in their private homes, reveals a fascinating story of culture and society as it has evolved in the United States since its early days. In this handsome book, which documents over 200...

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American Furniture in the Metropolitan Museum of Art Volume 1: Early Colonial Period: The Seventeenth Century and William and Mary Styles

Gruber Safford Frances

ISBN: HB: 9780300116472, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, November 2007
464 pp., 30.5x22.9 cm, 158 colour illus., 170 black&white illus.

The Metropolitan Museum's preeminent collection of early colonial furniture is expertly documented in this long-awaited publication. It covers the full spectrum of furniture forms made during the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, from chair...

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Henry VIII and the Art of Majesty Tapestries at the Tudor Court

Campbell Thomas P.

ISBN: HB: 9780300122343, Yale University Press, October 2007
440 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 206 colour images, 114 black&white illus.

Luxurious, beautiful, and portable, tapestry was the pre-eminent art form of the Tudor court. Henry VIII amassed an unrivaled collection over the course of his reign, and the author weaves the history of this magnificent collection into the life of i...

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Irish Furniture Woodwork and Carving in Ireland from the Earliest Times to the Act of Union

Knight of Glin, Peill James

ISBN: HB: 9780300117158, Yale University Press, April 2007
488 pp., 30.5x25 cm, 400 colour images, 100 black&white illus.

This lavishly illustrated and comprehensive volume is the first devoted entirely to the subject of Irish furniture and woodwork. It provides a detailed survey, encompassing everything from medieval choir stalls to magnificent drawing-room suites for...

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Bruno Mathsson

Widman Dag, Winter Karin, Stritzler-Levine Nina

ISBN: HB: 9780300121919, Yale University Press, September 2006
224 pp., 30.8x25.1 cm, 120 colour images, 80 black&white illus.

The sensuously undulant lines of Bruno Mathsson's furniture designs made him one of the leading figures of Swedish modernism in the 1930s. Chairs that adapted to their occupant, contoured to follow the human form with graceful natural curves and made...

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Britannia and Muscovy English Silver at the Court of the Tsars

Allen Brian T.

ISBN: HB: 9780300116786, Yale University Press, June 2006
288 pp., 28x24.8 cm, 200 colour images, 45 black&white illus.

This superbly illustrated book accompanies an exhibition of thirty objects from the exceptional collection of English silver in the Moscow Kremlin Museums, where one of the world's greatest surviving group of English sixteenth- and seventeenth-centur...

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Modernism in American Silver 20th-century Design

Stern Jewel, Tucker Kevin W., Venable Charles L.

ISBN: HB: 9780300109276, Yale University Press, September 2005
384 pp., 30.4x22.8 cm, 300 colour illus., 80 black&white illus.

From teaspoons to cocktail shakers and unique objects made for New York World's Fairs, this stunning book examines the influence of modernism upon industrially produced silverware made in the United States from 1925 to 2000. Featuring the Dallas Muse...

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Unicorn Tapestries at the Metropolitan Museum of Art

Cavallo Adolfo Salvatore

ISBN: PB: 9780300106305, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, April 2005
128 pp., 30.4x22.8 cm, 77 colour images, 14 black&white illus.

The unicorn tapestries are one of the most popular attractions at The Cloisters, the medieval branch of The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Traditionally known as The Hunt of the Unicorn, this set of seven exquisite and enigmatic tapestries was likely co...

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Catalogue Raisonne

Five Centuries of Hanukkah Lamps from the Jewish Museum A Catalogue Raisonne

Braunstein Susan L.

ISBN: HB: 9780300106237, Yale University Press, March 2005
424 pp., 30.4x22.8 cm, 129 colour images, 497 duotones and 163 halftones illus.

The observance of Hanukkah as a time of freedom and miracles resonates strongly with Jews today as in centuries past, and the Hanukkah lamp is central to the celebratory ritual. The importance of the Hanukkah lamp is reflected in the collection of Th...

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