Author: De Bellaigue, Geoffrey
Title: Furniture, Clocks and Gilt Bronzes (the James A. De Rothschild Collection at Waddesdon Manor) (2-Volume Set)
Description: Fribourg, Office du Livre for the National Trust, 1974. Hardbound. 2 vols. Blue cloth with front cover gilt design, brown title block on spine with gilt lettering, top edge gilt, brown & color illustrated dust jackets. 903 total pp. profusely illustrated in bw and with 49 tipped-in color plates. A complete two-volume set within a set, representing yet another illustrated catalogue of a portion of the decorative arts collection assembled by members of the Rothschild family of Waddesdon Manor in Buckinghamshire, England. Includes examples of time-keeping devices with French, English, German, and Swiss origins; veneered furniture and carved furniture of all sorts; gilt bronzes, including candelabra and chandeliers; and pique-work. With bios of the known artists and craftsmen. Offers terrific close-up views of the pieces. Uncommon. ontents as follows: Volume I: (Marquetry, clocks, gilt bronzes .. automata, barometers, clocks .. veneered funiture.) -- Volume II: (Veneered furniture [contd.] .. carved furniture .. gilt bronzes .. biographies [of makers]. VG/VG .

Keywords: European Decorative Arts ; Rothschild Collection ; ; Collections - European Decorative Arts


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