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This guide to antique china and silver is arranged chronologically, starting in the 16th century and concluding in the 1950s. There is a detailed introduction defining the principal elements of tableware which takes a broad view of the social history of the table, illustrated with paintings and engravings. Having given the reader guidance to identification and dating within this overview, the introduction concludes with a timeline of historical, stylistic and social change, in the production of china and silver.

An illustrated guide to antique china and silver pieces, arranged by period, that analyzes the unique details.

Pub. for Bard Grad. Ctr. for Studies in Decorative Arts, NY, Exhibition catalog.

The first book to deal with the life and work of HG Murphy in comprehensive detail, providing a glimpse into the world of silver and jewelry by one of Britain's great but neglected silversmiths.

The late 19th century represents a high point in the development of ceramics in Europe. Having put aside Victorian revivalism, and the decorative aspects of 1870s orientalism, potters in France, Germany, Scandinavia, the United States and Britain were united in their search for new frontiers, and for new styles not dependent upon the past. Armed with the fruits of several decades of advanced technological study, notably by French ceramicists, potters turned their attention to the creation of a style of ware in which new and complex glazes were of primary importance.

"After a long period of neglect, the variety, technical quality and imaginative content of British twentieth-century figurative sculpture is now being appreciated anew. This book, the first full study and catalogue raisonne of the work of Gilbert Bayes, adds his name to the list." "A war memorial sculptor, a medallist of note, the creator of portrait panels and busts, and a great variety of figures and groups, Bayes was probably best known in his lifetime for his series of large scale low relief panels designed for architectural settings. Some of those, on the former Saville Theatre, on Lord's cricket ground, and from Doulton House (now in the Victoria & Albert Museum) are, like the Selfridge's Queen of Time clock, familiar landmarks in the career of a great all-rounder, a sculptor whose diversity and imagination marked the end of a long and honourable tradition, finally eclipsed by the narrow concerns of the modernists in the 1930s."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved