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A well illustrated art book revealing one of the world's great collections of gold boxes, with a Foreword by A. K. Snowman. The boxes shown and described are from Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Austrian Empire, England, Russia, and France.
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GOLD BOXES FROM THE COLLECTION OF ROSALINDE AND ARTHUR GILBERT [Hardcover] von Habsburg-Lothringen, Geza
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Geza von Habsburg-Lothringen, 1983
ISBN 10: 0295961759
ISBN 13: 9780295961750
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Seller: Bibliomonster Books, Rancho Cucamonga, CA, U.S.A.
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hardcover. Condition: As New. Used, hardcover like new with original dust jacket. Sharp, square, clean, fresh & serviceable copy. No highlighting, marginalia or page tears. Seller Inventory # 26-KRM1-B8HN
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GOLD BOXES FROM THE COLLECTION OF ROSALINDE AND ARTHUR GILBERT
Published by
Geza von Habsburg-Lothringen, 1983
ISBN 10: 0295961759
ISBN 13: 9780295961750
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Hardcover
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Seller: Paradou Books, Richmond, VA, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Hardcover, with mylar-covered dust jacket. 130 pgs. Color illus. Fine in fine dj. Seller Inventory # ABE-1746215396764
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Gold Boxes: From the Collection of Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert
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R.& A. Gilbert., 1983
ISBN 10: 0295961759
ISBN 13: 9780295961750
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Seller: SPHINX LIBRARY, CHONBURI, Thailand
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Very Good Condition with Very Good Dust Jacket. First Edition, 5000 Copies Printed. Profusely illustrated, superb examples of the Goldsmith's art. By taking a pinch of snuff from a gold box, wealthy aristocrats could sheamelessly flaunt their taste, status, and wealth in a single gesture. The display of a gold box also showcased the talents of the designers and the various craftsmen who were commissioned to create these magnificent status symbols. These small treasures are masterful examples of the luxury arts that goldsmiths, jewelers, and miniature portrait painters of the era produced. The majority of the boxes were made for the functional purpose of holding snuff, or powdered tobacco. Friar Ramón Pane, who traveled to the New World with Christopher Columbus on his second voyage in 1507, was the first to note the taking of snuff. Initially overshadowed by the practice of smoking tobacco during the 16th and 17th centuries, the taking of snuff developed into an elaborate social custom during the 18th century. Gold snuffboxeswhich have a tight fitting lid to ensure that the snuff within remains freshwere an important part of this ritual that was popular throughout the courts, salons, and elite circles of Europe. In addition to serving a functional and social purpose, gold boxes were also considered a sort of fashion accessory, and were often selected to complement the owner's couture, or to mirror the attributes of the season. Beyond possession as a personal effect, gold boxes with miniature portraits of rulers, religious leaders, and other public figures were given as diplomatic gifts or awarded in official recognition of commendable service. For example, one of the uploaded images from Page 24 of this book, shows a miniature portrait gold box of Napoleon Bonaparte I which is a stunning combination of an exquisitely rendered portrait by French painter Jean-Baptiste Isabey and a tour de force of goldsmithing by the Swiss firm Moulinié, Bautte et Moynierm, which was based in Geneva. A pupil of Jacques-Louis David (17481825), Isabey became one of the best-known French portraitists with a long list of commissions from the successive rulers of France, including Marie Antoinette and the Napoleonic court. Here Isabey has depicted Napoleon as an official icon, shown in the coronation regalia he wore when he crowned himself Emperor Napoleon I. Surrounded with a border of alternating stars and bees, a symbol of Napoleon's reign, the emperor wears a gold diadem, and the five-armed cross of the Order of the Legion of Honor lays against the ermine of his coronation robes. The blue pendant with an "N" that Napoleon wears is replicated with the golden "N" set on a ground of blue enamel on the base of the box, and radiating trophées d'armes composed of three different tones of gold encircle the base. Since France annexed Geneva in 1799, it would not have been unusual for a Napoleonic presentation gold box to have been made in Switzerland. Seller Inventory # 000760
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