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Catalogue of Glass & Limoges Painted Enamels (Hardcover, New)
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Catalogue of Glass & Limoges Painted Enamels (Hardcover, New)
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The collections of glassware and Limoges painted enamels acquired
by Sir Richard Wallace may at first glance seem unlikely
bedfellows. Yet both are 'arts of fire' and both are 'vitreous
art', albeit with rather different aesthetic ends. Moreover, the
collections of glassware and painted enamels at the Wallace
Collection are broadly speaking contemporaneous in date of
manufacture. Whereas all of the painted enamels in the collection
were made in Limoges over a relatively short period from the late
fifteenth to the seventeenth centuries, much of the glassware was
made in Venice or elsewhere on the continent in Venetian style
(facon de Venise) at around the same time. Glassware from other
traditions includes a mid-fourteenth-century Islamic mosque lamp
and early seventeenth-century Bohemian enamelled glasses. All the
glass and Limoges painted enamels in the Wallace Collection are
published together for the first time. There are approximately
sixty glasses and thirty painted enamels in the Wallace Collection.
Preparation of this catalogue has included research into their
production, function, and the socio-cultural context in which they
were made, while comparative examples have been identified and
attribution and dating reassessed in the light of recent
developments in scientific analysis. Techniques from the
so-called'golden age' of Venetian glass-making are well
represented, including vessels in mould-blown, enamelled and gilt
and vetro a filigrana glass. Highlights include a calcedonio
goblet, a trick-glass tazza and a chalice-shaped goblet enamelled
with the Crucifixion. The Islamic glass mosque lamp, an early
seventeenth-century Bohemian beaker (Humpen), evocatively enamelled
with scenes of merrymaking and intended for welcoming guests, and
an exquisite goblet from a magnificent dressing-table service made
in Augsburg in the later eighteenth-century provide fascinating
glimpses into very different cultures.
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