Art & Architecture

Western Decorative Arts, Part I: Medieval, Renaissance, and Historicizing Styles Including Metalwork, Enamels, and Ceramics

    Contributions by
  • Daphne S. Barbour
  • Shelley G. Sturman
  • Pamela B. Vandiver

Hardcover

Price:
$94.00/£75.00
ISBN:
Published:
Jan 21, 1993
1993
Pages:
336
Size:
9.75 x 11.25 in.
Illus:
64 color, 249 b&w illus.
Main_subject:
Art & Architecture
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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 “Saint-Porchaire” ware.