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GARNIER, ÉDOUARD: - La Porcelaine Tendre de Sèvres. Avec une notice historique. Paris. Maison Quantin, (1889) - 1891.

. Royal folio. Pp. 31, table pp. 4, and fifty chromolithographic plates by Gillot reproducing 250 watercolour motifs based on the originals, heightened with gold. As issued, loose in original printed portfolio, new cloth spine, cotton ties (one new), extremities rubbed and with some stains. Old ownership signature on front paste down. First edition.An impressive work with 250 images of the finest examples of porcelain made at the royal factory of Sèvres, near Versailles. It was a continuation of Vincennes porcelain, founded in the Vincennes and Sèvres factories. Includes a table with marks and monograms of the Sèvres factory painters, decorators and gilders. Title and text leaves have tears at outer margin, a few with small loss of corner. Occasionally some staining to margins of the plates. Two plates have minor marginal tears, one with small loss at outer margin. A great copy with high quality original lithographic plates of marvellous pieces of porcelain.
EUR 1800.00 [Appr.: US$ 1927.05 | £UK 1542.5 | JP¥ 304892] Booknumber: 121489

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Total: EUR 1800.00 [Appr.: US$ 1927.05 | £UK 1542.5 | JP¥ 304892]
 

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