Western Decorative Arts: Volume 1This volume is one of several that examines the National Gallery of Art's distinguished collection of decorative arts. (The second volume will be published in 1996.) The group treated here is composed primarily of works acquired from the Widener Collection, and amplified by holdings acquired from the Kress family. Included are more than eighty Medieval, Renaissance, and later historic objects in a wide variety of media, encompassing metalwork, stained glass, enamels, ceramics, and jewels. Among the highlights are a Limoges reliquary chasse, a Mosan lion aquamanile, thirty-eight pieces in a remarkable cohesive group of Italian maiolica, three of the very rare pottery objects known as 'Saint-Porchaire', and, the centerpiece of the collection, the Suger chalice, an ancient sardonyx cup to which the Abbot Suger added a bejewelled golden setting in the twelfth century. Like other volumes in the Systematic Catalogue of the National Gallery of Art Collections,Western Decorative Arts includes a thoroughly researched entry for each object, together with an artist biography, up-to-date bibliography, and a technical analysis. |
Contents
LATE MEDIEVAL AND RENAISSANCE DECORATIVE ARTS Alison Luchs | 61 |
RENAISSANCE ENAMELS Philippe Verdier | 81 |
Limoges Painted Enamels with Introduction | 82 |
THE ENAMELS Daphne S Barbour and Shelley G Sturman | 104 |
RENAISSANCE CERAMICS Timothy H Wilson | 119 |
Unlustered Ornamental Maiolica | 120 |
Deruta with Introduction | 138 |
Gubbio with Introduction | 163 |
SaintPorchaire with Introduction | 242 |
THE SAINTPORCHAIRE CERAMICS Daphne S Barbour Shelley G Sturman and Pamela B Vandiver | 264 |
JEWELS | 281 |
Rudolf Distelberger | 305 |
Concordance of OldNew Attributions | 307 |
Concordance of NewOld Accession Numbers | 309 |
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Albert Museum appointment of Joseph attributed Ballardini blue border bowl British Museum candlestick Castel Castel Durante Catalogue châsse copper dated decoration Deruta diam dish Duveen Brothers edge Elkins Park enamel engraving Estate of Peter Faenza Fiocco and Gherardi Florence Francesco Xanto Avelli Gallery of Art Gauthier gift through power glass gold Gubbio Hackenbroch inlaid istoriato Italian J. V. G. Mallet jewels Joseph E Limoges London luster Maestro Giorgio Andreoli maiolica Marcantonio Raimondi Medici Medici porcelain medieval Metropolitan Museum motif Musée du Louvre Museo Museum of Art National Gallery NGA curatorial files Nicola ornament painted painter Paris pendant Peter A. B. Widener pieces plaque plate porcelain pottery power of appointment probably PROVENANCE Rackham REFERENCES 1935 Widener Renaissance repro Saint Saint-Porchaire scroll style tin glaze Tin-glazed earthenware maiolica tion Triolo Urbino Victoria and Albert vols Washington Widener by gift Wilson workshop of Maestro