Treen For the Table: Wooden Objects Related to Eating and Drinking

Levi, Jonathan

ISBN 10: 1851492844 / ISBN 13: 9781851492848

Published by Antique Collectors' Club, Woodbridge, 1998

About this Item

Unobtrusive small bump to bottom corner of front board. 210 x 270 mm. 216 pp. Copiously illustrated, almost entirely with colour photographs.

Seller Inventory # 82543

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Treen For the Table: Wooden Objects Related to Eating and Drinking
• Publisher: Antique Collectors' Club, Woodbridge
• Publication Date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1851492844
• ISBN 13: 9781851492848
• Binding: Hardback
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Food and drink
  • Art, craft, design

About this title

Synopsis

This lavishly illustrated book concentrates on pieces related to eating and drinking and celebrates the range and richness of the turner's art from 1600 to 1900. It covers a wide range of objects for everyday and ceremonial use; goblets to nutcrackers, platters to lemon squeezers, mortars to salts, wassail bowls to egg cups. It discusses the work of the 'jobbing' village turner or 'bodger', the skilled craftsman's workshop and the grand Court turner producing complex rose engine turning. It illustrates pieces only to be found in museums and examples you can find today in your local antiques market or fair.

Information is given on where treen may be seen and found and there is practical advice on pitfalls for the collector, dating and cleaning, as well as a chapter dealing with surfaces and patina and one asking for readers' help in identifying the purpose of some curious objects. This volume will appeal not only to new collectors seeking guidance and inspiration and antique dealers who may come across treen, but also to experts who can compare the objects in their own collections with those illustrated in this veritable feast of treen.

About the Author

Jonathan Levi is an American writer and producer, and author of A Guide for the Perplexed. His short stories and articles have also appeared in many magazines including Granta, Conde Nast Traveler, GQ, Terra Nova, The NationandThe New York Times. Born in New York, he currently lives in Rome, Italy.