This lavishly illustrated book documents the most distinguished works from the Metropolitan Museum's extensive collection of domestic, ecclesiastical, and presentation silver from the Colonial and Federal periods. Detailed discussions provide a stylistic and socio-historical context for each piece, offering a wealth of new information to both specialist and non-specialist readers. Every object is documented with new photography that captures details, marks, and heraldic engraving. Finally, accompanying essays discuss issues ...
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This lavishly illustrated book documents the most distinguished works from the Metropolitan Museum's extensive collection of domestic, ecclesiastical, and presentation silver from the Colonial and Federal periods. Detailed discussions provide a stylistic and socio-historical context for each piece, offering a wealth of new information to both specialist and non-specialist readers. Every object is documented with new photography that captures details, marks, and heraldic engraving. Finally, accompanying essays discuss issues of patronage and provenance, design and craft, and patterns of ownership and collecting, providing windows onto the past that help bring these pieces to life. Published by The Metropolitan Museum of Art/Distributed by Yale University Press
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Very Good. Picture shown is for illustration purposes only, please see below for further details CONDITION-VERY GOOD light wear and scuff marks to jacket, pages in nice condition, shipped from the UK. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. With dust jacket. 340 p. Contains: Illustrations, black & white, Illustrations, color.
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New. Size: 8x1x12; *NEW* Hardcover in DJ, sealed in plastic. Fresh from a distributor with no price tags and no remainder marks. Priority and international shipping NOT available on this item.
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Dust jacket in good condition. First printing. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. SPINE LEAN. CLEAN CONTENT PAGES. New protective mylar applied to dust jacket before shipping. Secure packaging for safe delivery.
