Summary Catalogue of European Decorative Arts in the J. Paul Getty Museum

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Название: Summary Catalogue of European Decorative Arts in the J. Paul Getty Museum

Издательство:J. Paul Getty Museum

Автор:Gillian Wilson and Catherine Hess

Год: 2002

Количество страниц:320

Язык:English

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J. Paul Getty had a passion for the exquisitely made furniture and decorative objects of eighteenth-century France, which he began collecting in the 1930s. Gillian Wilson, curator of decorative arts since 1971, has broadened and strengthened the collection, adding Boulle furniture, mounted oriental porcelain, tapestries, clocks, ceramics, and more. In the 1980s and 1990s the Museum continued to enlarge its decorative arts holdings, creating a European sculpture department in 1984 and adding glass, maiolica, goldsmiths’ work, pietre dure, and furniture from Italy and Northern Europe.

This book is a revised and expanded edition of Decorative Arts: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue of the Collection of the J. Paul Getty Museum (1993). In addition to more than forty recent acquisitions—among these four wall sconces from Versailles that once belonged to Marie Antoinette and an elaborate upholstered bed from the collection of Karl Lagerfeld—it includes the results of years of research. Designed for scholars, students, and devotees of the decorative arts, this volume provides a comprehensive look at the Getty’s fine collection.

Table of Contents

Foreword

Preface and Acknowledgments

Bibliographical Abbreviations

Part I

Part I is organized first by country of origin (France), then by type of object.

French Decorative Arts

Furniture

Architectural Woodwork and Fixtures

Clocks and Barometers

Scientific Instruments

Metalwork

Ceramics

Mounted Oriental Porcelain

Mounted Hardstones and Glass

Textiles

Carpets and Screens

Tapestries

Decorative Drawings

Part II

Part II is organized first by type of object, then alphabetically by country of origin.

Architectural Woodwork

German

Ceramics

Austrian

Chinese

English

German

Italian

Japanese

Spanish

Clocks

German

Italian

Furniture

English

German

Italian

Netherlandish

South Indian

Glass

Austrian

Bohemian

French

German

Italian

Netherlandish

Hardstones

English

Italian

Ivory

German

Metalwork

English

German

Italian

Netherlandish

Spanish

Mosaics

Italian

Scagliola

German

Textiles and Carpets

Chinese

Persian

Glossary of Woods

Indexes

Index of Makers

Index of Previous Owners

Concordance

About the Authors

Gillian Wilson is curator of decorative arts at the J. Paul Getty Museum.

Catherine Hess is associate curator of sculpture and works of art at the Getty Museum