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Selections from the Decorative Arts in the J. Paul Getty Museum (Getty Trust Publications: J. Paul Getty Museum) by Gillian Wilson; J. Paul Getty Museum is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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J. Paul Getty began to collect French decorative arts in the 1930s and continued to do so until his death in 1976. The Museum’s collection has continued to grow since then at a rapid pace and contains over three hundred individual pieces at the time this book is published. This volume illustrates fifty of them. The selection represents a cross section of the collection, which covers the period from approximately 1660 to 1800. In the eighteenth century it became fashionable in Parisian society to decorate the interiors of houses with Far Eastern materials such as lacquer and porcelain. This taste was catered to by the marchands-merciers, members of a guild who combined the functions of the modern interior decorator, the antique dealer, and the picture dealer. These men devised highly ingenious settings for Far Eastern porcelains to adapt their exotic character to the French interiors of the period. Information about them and their clientele has been used in cataloguing the Getty Museum’s collection of mounted oriental porcelain, which is large and of high quality. This book is not a catalogue, nor is it a mere picture book or checklist. Each piece has been chosen because it represen

Who reads Selections from the Decorative Arts in the J. Paul Getty Museum (Getty Trust Publications: J. Paul Getty Museum)?

Author

Gillian Wilson; J. Paul Getty Museum

Publisher

Getty Trust Publications: J. Paul Getty Museum

Published

1983

Language

EN

ISBN

9780892360505

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Crafts & Hobbies, History, Art