The Gilbert Collection of Gold and Silver

Schroeder, Timothy B.; Edited by Susan L. Caroselli

ISBN 10: 0500014523 / ISBN 13: 9780500014523

Published by Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles CA, 1988

About this Item

685 pp., 557 illustrations over fifty in full color. Very minor scuffing and wear to the dustjacket cover, otherwise fine. No slipcase. Foreword by Earl A. Powell, III, Director of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Includes acknowledgments, author's notes, glossary, index, bibliography and exhibitions. Dustjacket is protected with a mylar cover.

Seller Inventory # 009679

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Gilbert Collection of Gold and Silver
• Publisher: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles CA
• Publication Date: 1988
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0500014523
• ISBN 13: 9780500014523
• Binding: Cloth
• Condition: Fine Condition
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine Condition
• Seller catalogs:
  • Art: Collections
  • Decorative Arts

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Synopsis

The Gilberts' earliest acquisitions of silver in the late 1960s were made with essentially decorative purposes in mind. By about 1970, however, the Gilberts had begun to develop a serious interest in the craftsmanship of the finest goldsmith's work. Typical of their first purchases are the replica of the Warwick Vase, a pair of entree dishes from the Norfolk Service, and the magnificent candelabrum centerpiece, all by the English goldsmith Paul Storr (1771 - 1844). These and other early acquisitions established the criteria that guided the formation of the collection through the state documents by William Ezelle Jones 1977 catalogue, the works being generally of outstanding quality and possessing, in Arthur Gilbert's express, a monumentality that reflected the grandeur of the style of life for which they were made. That this has continued to be a major element in the collection is illustrated by certain subsequent acquisitions, such as the astonishing Russian gates, the Lafayette vase, and the Indian howdah.