Gouthière's candelabras / Edmund de Waal, Charlotte Vignon.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

De Waal, Edmund, author.

Vignon, Charlotte, author.

Contributor:

Frick Collection, issuing body.

Series:

Frick diptych series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Gouthière, Pierre, 1732-1813.

Gouthière, Pierre.

Frick Collection.

Candelabra--France--History--18th century.

Candelabra.

Gilt bronzes--France--History--18th century.

Gilt bronzes.

History.

France.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

64 pages : color illustrations ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : The Frick Collection ; Lewes : in association with D Giles Limited, 2019.

Summary:

Designed to foster critical engagement and interest the specialist and non-specialist alike, each book in the Frick Diptych Series illuminates a single work in the Frick's rich collection with an essay by a Frick curator paired with a contribution from a contemporary artist or writer. This volume focuses on a pair of white porcelain candelabras with gilt-bronze mounts by eighteenth-century virtuoso bronze-maker Pierre Gouthière and features contributions by writer and artist Edmund de Waal and Charlotte Vignon, Curator of Decorative Arts at the Frick.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: Pierre Gouthiere / Edmund de Waal

White And Gold: Pierre Gouthiere's Candelabra for the Duke of Aumont / Charlotte Vignon.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781911282471

1911282476

OCLC:

1065544579