Ceramics Ethics & Scandal - Hardcover

Wise, Sharp Rosalie

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0973141700 ISBN 13: 9780973141702

Publisher: Rosalie Wise Design Books, 2006

Synopsis

An affectionate journey into the 18th century world of Johnson and Boswell as the context for the Sharp collectionIn this gorgeously illustrated book, Rosalie Sharp looks at the society in which her collection of porcelain and pottery was produced in England in the 1700s. Her contemporary witnesses include the diarists Samuel Johnson and James Boswell, letter writers Horace Walpole and Mary Delany and a host of other raconteurs and travelers. These accounts, together with her own extensive reading, have enabled her to write a lively story of the daily life of the period - from food, dress and sexual escapades, to country houses, grand tours, crime, religious and racial prejudice. It is a rich brew, peppered with cameo sketches of key personages of the time, from the royal family to street peddlers and villains.Set amid this text, the porcelain pieces and pottery figures illustrated here take on layers of meaning and exemplify a multitude of fascinating facts. In effect, a plate or a fi

About this edition

• Publisher: Rosalie Wise Design Books
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0973141700
• ISBN 13: 9780973141702
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 288