Description

Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice older book in good condition. Pages in good condition. 1964 edition. Plates are bright and vivid. No notes or highlighting. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> The collection of decorative art which the Samuel H. Kress Foundation gave to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1958 includes the magnificent eighteenth-century Adam Room from Croome Court Worcestershire together with its furniture and brilliant rose tapestries; exquisite pieces of furniture and objects of art from the Hillingdon Collection including S?vres porcelain vases and clocks; and related pieces from other sources among them a superb Louis XIV Savonnerie carpet. The present definitive catalogue offers a detailed des- cription of each object with comments comparable examples identification of the artists provenance and bibliography. There are also historical introductions to the sections on the Croome Court Room and on its Tapestries on the French Marchands Merciers and Furniture with Porcelain Plaques on Sir Charles Mills and the Hillingdon Collection on the S?vres Porcelains and on Knotted Pile Fabrics. (OS)