WESTERN DECORATIVE ARTS, PART I; Medieval, Renaissance, and Historicizing Styles Including Metalwork, Enamels, and Ceramics

Distelberger, Rudolf; Alison Luchs; Philippe Verdier; Timothy H. Wilson

ISBN 10: 0521470684 / ISBN 13: 9780521470681

Published by National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1993

About this Item

333 pages in fine condition. 64 colour plates and 249 b+w illustrations. Tight binding. Star stamp on pages edge bottom. Green cloth cover in fine condition. Illustrated DJ in fine condition. FINE/FINE.

Seller Inventory # 041764

Bibliographic Details

• Title: WESTERN DECORATIVE ARTS, PART I; Medieval, Renaissance, and Historicizing Styles Including Metalwork, Enamels, and Ceramics
• Publisher: National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
• Publication Date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0521470684
• ISBN 13: 9780521470681
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Book Type: Book
• Seller catalogs:
  • Art

About this title

Synopsis

The National Gallery's distinguished collection of decorative arts includes more than eighty works, such as Abbot Suger's jeweled sardonyx cup from the royal abbey of St. Denis, a Limoges reliquary, and a Mosan lion aquamanile. The extensive collection of Renaissance ceramics is primarily Italian maiolica but also represents rare Medici porcelain and "Saint-Porchaire" ware.

Book Description

This volume is one of two that examine the National Gallery of Art's distinguished collection of decorative arts.