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Title: Going for Gold
Condition: New
Subtitle: Craftsmanship and Collecting of Gold Boxes
EAN: 9781845194659
ISBN: 9781845194659
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Format: Hardback
Release Date: 15/02/2014
Language: English
Country/Region of Manufacture: GB
Item Height: 295mm
Item Length: 210mm
Item Weight: 1358g
Contributor: Tessa Murdoch (Edited by), Heike Zech (Edited by)
Genre: Architecture & Antiques
Description: This book examines the art of the gold box in 18th and 19th century Europe. Distinguished international scholars explore the contributions made by individual workshops in major European centres of production in the context of contemporary patronage and the international market for such boxes. Consideration is given to the design of gold boxes with reference to the V&A's important collection of design drawings. Leading experts explore the ways in which different techniques of gold box decoration -- portrait miniatures, gems, enamels, mosaics and hard-stones -- were developed. Contributors to the volume include experts from Amsterdam, Berlin, Dresden, London, Munich, New York, Paris, Rome, and St Petersburg. Senior museum curators, auction house specialists and independent scholars illustrate and discuss examples from private and public collections in their cities and elsewhere. The result is a unique record of the state of knowledge on the European production of gold boxes and of the history of collecting. This book will appeal to international collectors, scholars, dealers, museum curators and museum visitors, and all those interested in gold and silver fine art.
Author: Tessa Murdoch
Release Year: 2014

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