Western Decorative Arts, Part I: Medieval, Renaissance, and Historicizing Styles Including Metalwork, Enamels, and Ceramics
Hardcover
- Price:
- $94.00/拢75.00
- ISBN:
- Published:
- Jan 21, 1993
- Copyright:
- 1993
- Pages:
- 336
- Size:
- 9.75 x 11.25 in.
- 64 color, 249 b&w illus.
- Main_subject:
- Art & Architecture
The National Gallery’s distinguished collection of decorative arts includes more than eighty works, such as Abbot Suger’s jeweled sardonyx cup from the royal abbey of St. Denis, a Limoges reliquary, and a Mosan lion aquamanile. The extensive collection of Renaissance ceramics is primarily Italian maiolica but also represents rare Medici porcelain and 鈥淪aint-Porchaire鈥� ware.