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Vincennes and Early Sevres Porcelain
Joanna Gwilt
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Description for Vincennes and Early Sevres Porcelain
Hardcover. The opulent wares of the renowned Sevres manufactory are prominently displayed in palaces and art galleries throughout the world. By contrast, the comparative delicacy and simplicity of the beautiful wares of the Vincennes porcelain works, from which the Sevres factory evolved, remain relatively unknown, even to porcelain experts. Num Pages: 256 pages, 1000 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: AFP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 224 x 276 x 34. Weight in Grams: 1724.
The opulent wares of the renowned Sevres manufactory are prominently displayed in palaces and art galleries throughout the world. By contrast, the comparative delicacy and simplicity of the beautiful wares of the Vincennes porcelain works, from which the Sevres factory evolved, remain relatively unknown, even to porcelain experts, who will find much that is alluring and surprising in this remarkable book. Detailed photographs and lavish illustrations reveal the rich variety of styles and increasingly complex gilding that mark out the products of Vincennes and early Sevres, including such innovations as the introduction of sculptural figures during the late 1740s. Much ... Read more
The opulent wares of the renowned Sevres manufactory are prominently displayed in palaces and art galleries throughout the world. By contrast, the comparative delicacy and simplicity of the beautiful wares of the Vincennes porcelain works, from which the Sevres factory evolved, remain relatively unknown, even to porcelain experts, who will find much that is alluring and surprising in this remarkable book. Detailed photographs and lavish illustrations reveal the rich variety of styles and increasingly complex gilding that mark out the products of Vincennes and early Sevres, including such innovations as the introduction of sculptural figures during the late 1740s. Much ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
V&A
Number of pages
256
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Number of Pages
280
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781851777730
SKU
V9781851777730
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Ref
99-10
About Joanna Gwilt
Joanna Gwilt is a specialist in eighteenth-century French decorative arts and formerly the Assistant Curator at the Royal Collection and also of the Wallace Collection, London. She is the author of French Porcelain for English Palaces: Sevres from the Royal Collection (2009).
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