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Japanned Papier Mache and Tinware c.1740-1940 (Hardcover, New)
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Japanned Papier Mache and Tinware c.1740-1940 (Hardcover, New)
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As one of the few decorative arts about which little has been
written, japanning is today fraught with misunderstandings. And
yet, in its heyday, the japanning industry attracted important
commissions from prestigious designers such as Robert Adam, and
orders from fashionable society across Europe and beyond. This book
is a long overdue history of the industry which centred on three
towns in the English midlands: Birmingham, Wolverhampton and
Bilston. It is as much about the workers, their skills, and the
factories and workshops in which they laboured, as it is about the
goods they made. It tells of matters of taste and criticism, and of
how an industry which continued to rely so heavily upon hand labour
in the machine age reached its natural end in the 1880s with a few
factories lingering into the late 1930s. Richly illustrated, it
includes photographs of mostly marked, or well-documented, examples
of japanned tin and papier mache against which readers may compare
- and perhaps identify - unmarked specimens. 'Japanned Papier Mache
and Tinware' draws predominantly upon contemporary sources:
printed, manuscript and typescript documents, and, for the period
leading up to the closure of the last factories in the 1930s, the
author was able to draw on verbal accounts of eyewitnesses. With a
chapter on japanners in London, other European centres, and in the
United States, together with a directory of japan artists and
decorators, this closely researched and comprehensive book is the
reference work for collectors, dealers and enthusiasts alike.
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