Selected Works: Early German Porcelain & Eighteenth-Century Art, Furniture, and Objets d'Art
Munich, Germany: Röbbig-München, 2013. English. Hardcover. Chocolate brown cloth, gilt letters on spine, brown & illus. dust jacket, 166 pp., many color illus. VG, Like New. Item #136536
ISBN: 9783000411984
Holdings of a commercial gallery in Munich. With essays:Travelling in Style: A Meissen Travelling Service with Chinoiserie Decoration / Johann Gregorius Horoldt -- A Masterpiece of Polychrome Wood Marquetry: Louis XIV Commode Mazarine au jasmin / Max Tillmann -- Chaste Restraint or Sensual Liberation: The Birdcage / Gerhard Robbig -- Johann Joachim Kaendler: The Grand Master of the Porcelain Figure -- Claudius Innocentius Du Paquier and the Vienna Porcelain Manufactory 1718-44 / Claudia Lehner-Jobst -- A "Coiffeuse" from Roentgen: The Epitome of Luxury Production / Christine Cornet -- "Iam mos est, quod medicina fuit": The Eighteenth-Century Cult of the Snuffbox / Sarah-Katharina Acevedo -- Made in Truly Royal Taste: A Chonoiserie Coffee and Tea Service from Berlin with Scenes after Boucher and Watteau / Sarah-Katharina Acevedo -- Inspired by a Creative Genius: A Pair of Louis XVI Candelabra by Francois Remond. Quite a lovely book, with exquisite close-up and clear color photography, esp. of porcelain pieces.
Price: $40.00