WATSON, WENDY M.

Italian Renaissance Maiolica from the William A. Clark Collection

Scala Books Ltd, London. 1986, 1st Edition. (ISBN: 0935748687). Hardcover, with dust jacket. Book, English text; Hardcover (cloth with dust jacket); 21 x 28 cm; 0.950 Kg; 192 pages with colour and black-and-white illustrations.; Used in good condition with signs of wear on the exterior and interior. Two tears on the top of the front cover dust jacket. Edge wear. The exterior of the text block has also wear marks. Ex-library stamp on front free endpaper. The remaining interior is in good condition with minor signs of wear.; Catalogue of a travelling exhibition organized by The Corcoran Gallery of Art and the Mount Holyoke College Art Museum.; "At its best, Italian maiolica seems as it were to concentrate the quintessence of all the qualities which go to make up the greatness and abiding charm of Italian art. Herein lies, I think, its unique fascination.". These words by the great art historian Tancred Borenius open the introduction to this catalogue, and the magnificent full colour illustration which follow reinforce this view. The exhibition here represented is the product of a collaboration between the Corcoran Gallery of Art, which possesses, in the Wiilliam A. Clark Collection, one of the richest and most comprehensive assemblages of Italian Renaissance maiolica in America, and the Mount Holyoke College Art Museum, whose curator, Wendy M. Watson, is a leading expert in this field and undertook to organize the project and produce the catalogue. The resulting exhibition is to travel, over a period of three years from Mount Holyoke to the museums of Northwestern University, the University of Wisconsin, Bowdoin College, and the University of Minnesota, as well as the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Saint Louis Art Museum, the Gardiner Museum of Ceramic Art, The Museum of Fine Arts (Boston), and the Dayton Art Institute, before ending its tour at the Corcoran Gallery in Washington DC. The author's twenty-page introduction to the catalogue is a serious and thoughtful contribution to the history of this fascinating, and too little known, branch of Italian art. She also provides, for each of the seventy exhibits, a detailed individual description and commentary with provenances and bibliographical notes, often accompanied by one or more black and white illustrations as well as the full colour plate. The main entries are followed by a checklist of the remaining fifty works on the collection, each with a condensed descriptive note and a small black and white print for identification, and the critical apparatus is completed by a full bibliography at the end of the book. The result is a volume which will not only act as a catalogue to this outstandingly attractive and unusual exhibition, but should also hold its place as a reference work for scholars and students for many years to come. Good/Dust Jacket Included.

Jorge Welsh Works of Art LdaVendeur professionnel

N° du livre: 1064B

Catalogue: European Ceramics

Mots-clés: 0935748687 maiolica,italy,porcelain Collections and exhibitions

WHITELEY, JON; SCHRODER, TIMOTHY; MANNERS, ERROL; GLANVILLE, PHILIPPA; MARNO, FELICITY; MARTIN, MATTHEW; BIMSON, MAVIS; MASSEY, ROGER; MALLET, JOHN; HOWARD, ANGELA; LOMAX, JAMES; GABSZEWICZ

Fire and Form: The Baroque and Its Influence on English Ceramics C1660-C1760

English Ceramic Circle. 2013, 1st Edition. (ISBN: 9780957694620). Soft cover. Book, English text.; Paperback.; 25 x 21 cm.; 0.8 Kg.; 224 pages with colour illustrations.; Used with signs of wear on the exterior and interior. The front cover show signs of have been bent in the past. Interior in very good condition with minor signs of wear.; "This publication contains the papers given at the weekend seminar entitled 'Fire and Form - The Baroque and its influence on English Ceramics, c 1660 - c1760' which was held at the Victoria and Albert Museum on 26th/27th March 2011. The paper read at the Seminar examine the highly important and far reaching but little considered contribution of the Baroque period and style to the development of English ceramics." excerpt from the foreword by Roger Massey, English Ceramic Circle President and Felicity Marno, Fire and Form Programme Secretary, June 2013. Good/No Jacket.

Jorge Welsh Works of Art LdaVendeur professionnel

N° du livre: 1025B

Catalogue: European Ceramics

Mots-clés: 9780957694620 english ceramics,english ceramic circle