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Delftware: In the Fitzwilliam Museum
Michael Archer
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Description for Delftware: In the Fitzwilliam Museum
Hardcover. Presents the catalogue of the English and Irish delftware in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, which reveals much that is unusual. This title illustrates 588 items in colour, many with multiple views. Num Pages: 464 pages, 1000 quarter page, 15 full page colour. BIC Classification: AFPC; AGC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 287 x 237 x 44. Weight in Grams: 2738.
This complete catalogue of the English and Irish delftware in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, reveals much that is beautiful and unusual. The greater part of the collection was bequeathed by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher in 1928, and much of it is little known. A detailed publication has long been overdue, and this book illustrates 588 items in colour, many with multiple views. The strength of Dr Glaisher's collection is the English earthenware of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, particularly delftware: no better assemblage has ever been made by a single collector. He amassed objects with great academic rigour over ... Read more
This complete catalogue of the English and Irish delftware in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, reveals much that is beautiful and unusual. The greater part of the collection was bequeathed by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher in 1928, and much of it is little known. A detailed publication has long been overdue, and this book illustrates 588 items in colour, many with multiple views. The strength of Dr Glaisher's collection is the English earthenware of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, particularly delftware: no better assemblage has ever been made by a single collector. He amassed objects with great academic rigour over ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Philip Wilson Publishers
Number of pages
464
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
Number of Pages
464
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781781300022
SKU
V9781781300022
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About Michael Archer
Michael Archer OBE, MA, FSA is a former Keeper of the Ceramics Department of the Victoria and Albert Museum where he became the acknowledged expert on English delftware. He has written numerous articles and books on ceramics, culminating in Delftware: the Tin-Glazed Earthenware of the British Isles, a catalogue of the collections in the Victoria and Albert Museum, published in ... Read more
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