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Title: Russian Silver in America
Condition: New
EAN: 9781904832812
ISBN: 9781904832812
Publisher: D Giles Ltd
Format: Hardback
Release Date: 02/01/2011
Item Height: 279mm
Item Length: 216mm
Author: Anne Odorn
Language: English
Subtitle: Surviving the Melting Pot
ISBN-10: 1904832814
Description: The Hillwood Museum's Russian silver collection is the largest and most comprehensive outside Russia. 'Russian Silver in America' surveys Russian silver production, its changing forms, styles, imagery and techniques over more than 250 years, drawing on the collections of both the Hillwood and other US museums. A beautifully illustrated book which provides a proper cultural, political and historical context in which to view this fascinating collection, it charts the history of Russian silver through the baroque styles of the reigns of Peter and Elizabeth, the move to Rococo and Neoclassicism under Catherine and Paul, revivalist styles under Alexander I and Nicholas I, 19th-century styles up to Faberge and modernist production. Running throughout is the story of how and why so much Russian silver found its way into American collections - much of it sold by the Soviet government in the 1920s and 30s, as having largely been held in church treasuries and private collections, it was considered to be of no artistic value. A dazzling visual history of Russian silver and a vital record of 18th- and 19th-century silver production in Russia, almost none of which remains in the country today.Features over 160 pieces from the Hillwood Museum and other US collections including objects made for the imperial family and growing merchant class.
Country/Region of Manufacture: GB
Genre: Arts & Photography
Release Year: 2011

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