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Книга: Silver Boxes (Серебряные шкатулки)

Товар № 10331341
Издательство: Antique Collectors Club Ltd
Вес: 1.010 кг.
Формат: 279x216x19
Страниц: 160 Переплет: Твердый переплет
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The silver box has fascinated and intrigued collectors for many centuries. This book is a comprehensive study of the subject which concentrates on the development of the silver box in England from the 16th to the late 19th centuries. Because the interest of collectors lies not so much in the shape or type of boxes as in the wide variety of uses to which they have been put and the splendid enrichment lavished upon them, there is a penetrating analysis of the roots and derivations of ornament. The full colour illustrations show boxes with as many diverse forms and uses as possible.

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