The collection of British pewter at Colonial Williamsburg is remarkable for its breadth and detail. It illustrates the development of basic forms and types of decoration from the first decades of the seventeenth century through those of the nineteenth, and includes a complementary admixture of American examples, which often exhibit readily identifiable regional and individual preferences. This catalog is divided into sections based on use, including dining wares, drinking vessels, and religious objects. This organization ...
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The collection of British pewter at Colonial Williamsburg is remarkable for its breadth and detail. It illustrates the development of basic forms and types of decoration from the first decades of the seventeenth century through those of the nineteenth, and includes a complementary admixture of American examples, which often exhibit readily identifiable regional and individual preferences. This catalog is divided into sections based on use, including dining wares, drinking vessels, and religious objects. This organization allows for the juxtaposition of related forms and for the appreciation of their chronologies and development. The important Colonial Williamsburg collection that has been formed over the past seventy-five years. It highlights the many purposes pewter served in early American history, assisting in the transfer of culture from Europe and in the shaping of distinctive American attitudes and artifacts, and is also illustrative of the broad distribution of British wares, especially apparent in Virginia and the lower Chesapeake region, where there were relatively few practicing pewterers and where there was a decided dependence on imported pewter.
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VG/VG. Black cloth boards with silver spine lettering. Black and illustrated dust jacket with silver lettering. xi, 346 pp. BW illustrations. "This handsome volume features nearly a thousand illustrations. The book includes a handy glossary and detailed photographs of all marks on the objects. Collectors, scholars, and students as well as those fascinated by the past will appreciate Pewter at Colonial Williamsburg not only for its design, but also for its comprehensive examination of this world-class collection."-Jacket.
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First edition (hardback). 4to (xii, 346pp. Illustrated throughout, mainly in b&w but a handful of illustrations are in colour. Original black cloth, dustwrapper. Please note that there is some foxing to the half-title page; otherwise, the book and the dustwrapper are in very good condition. ISBN 0879352183.
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VG/VG. Black cloth, black ill. DJ. 347 pp. Approx. 1000 bw plates and ills. Catalog divided into six sections based on use: lighting devices, dining wares, drinking vessels, tea and coffee equipage, household and personal accessories, and religious objects. Show the chronological development of basic formas and the changes over time in types of decoration. Also summarized the rise and fall of the British pewter industry (from DJ).
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Fine copy in fine dust jacket (in mylar). Folio. 347 pps. Illustrated in black, white and color. Important reference work. Very scarce in this condition.
