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European furniture in the Metropolitan Museum of Art : highlights of the collection / Daniëlle O. Kisluk-Grosheide, Wolfram Koeppe, William Rieder ; photography by Joseph Coscia, Jr.

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Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
Published
New York : Metropolitan Museum of Art, [between 1900 and 1999?]
New York : The Metropolitan Museum of Art ; New Haven : Yale University Press, [2006]
Copyright Date
©2006
Physical Description
1 online resource (viii, 283 pages) : illustrations (some color)
Additional Creators
Kisluk-Grosheide, Daniëlle O., Koeppe, Wolfram, 1962-, Rieder, William, Coscia, Joseph, and Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.). Department of European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
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Contents
A brief history of the collection / Daniëlle O. Kisluk-Grosheide -- Highlights of the collection / Daniëlle O. Kisluk-Grosheide, Wolfram Koeppe, and William Rieder -- Glossary / Rose Whitehill.
Summary
"This ... volume is the first to survey the Metropolitan Museum's world-renowned collection of European furniture. One hundred and three ... examples from the Museum's vast holdings are featured. They originated in workshops in England, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Austria, Russia, or Spain and date from the Renaissance to the late nineteenth century. A number of them belonged to such ... historical figures as Pope Urban VIII, Louis XIV, Madame de Pompadour, and Napoleon. The selection includes chairs, tables, beds, cabinets, commodes, settees and sofas, bookcases and standing shelves, desks, fire screens, athéniennes, coffers, chests, mirrors and frames, showcases, and lighting equipment. There is also one purely decorative piece, a ... vase made for a Russian noble family who, according to one awestruck viewer, "owned all the malachite mines in the world." The makers of some of the objects are unknown, but most of the pieces can be identified by label, documentation, or style as the work of an outstanding European designer-craftsman, such as André-Charles Boulle, Thomas Chippendale, David Roentgen, or Karl Friedrich Schinkel"--From publisher's description.
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ISBN
1588391787 (Metropolitan Museum of Art hardcover)
9781588391780 (Metropolitan Museum of Art hardcover)
0300104847 (Yale University Press hardcover)
9780300104844 (Yale University Press hardcover)
Note
Accompanying CD-ROM contains ... "358 color images and captions."--D.j.
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 250-268) and index.
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