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Designers and Jewellery 1850-1940 - Helen Ritchie

Designers and Jewellery 1850-1940

Jewellery and Metalwork from the Fitzwilliam Museum

(Autor)

Buch | Softcover
176 Seiten
2018
Philip Wilson Publishers Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-78130-067-1 (ISBN)
CHF 37,90 inkl. MwSt
A glittering display of the Fitzwilliam Museum’s finest pieces of jewellery and metalwork from the 1850s to 1940
A glittering display of the Fitzwilliam Museum’s finest pieces of jewellery and metalwork.

The Fitzwilliam Museum, University of Cambridge, holds stunning examples of jewellery and metalwork from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This exceptional period of design covers the neo-Gothic and historicist designs of the mid- to late nineteenth century, the groundbreaking work of British Arts and Crafts designers, sinuous curves influenced by the European Art Nouveau movement and the structural modernity of the 1930s.

The collection contains jewellery by some of the finest historicist designers, including the Castellani and Giuliano families and John Brogden, as well as a spectacular decanter by William Burges. There are important pieces of jewellery and silver by the most famous of Arts and Crafts designers, including C.R. Ashbee, Henry Wilson, Gilbert Marks and John Paul Cooper.

Unique pieces designed by the artist Charles Ricketts hold a special place in the history of queer art in Britain, having been designed for his friends Katherine Bradley and Edith Cooper, a couple known collectively as Michael Field. Modernist silver is represented by leaders of the field Omar Ramsden and H.G. Murphy.

This beautifully illustrated volume reproduces 70 of the Museum’s most important pieces from this period, many previously unpublished, with comparative illustrations of some of the original designs. Importantly, the book is arranged chronologically by designer and includes biographies, a description of their work and how it changed over time, as well as commentary about the specific works in the Museum’s collection.

The book brings together for the first time the Fitzwilliam’s exceptionally fine holdings of jewellery and metalwork from this highly popular and fruitful period of design.

Helen Ritchie is a Research Assistant in the Department of Applied Arts at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, where she is responsible for researching, interpreting and curating the Museum's modern Applied Arts. After studying at Trinity Hall, University of Cambridge and the University of the Arts London, Helen worked with applied arts at the Royal Collection Trust, Christie's, Harrogate Museums, and the British Museum. She is the author of A Passionate Collector: Mrs Hull Grundy and Jewellery from the Harrogate Collection (2014).

Director’s Foreword
Foreword
Acknowledgements

Introduction
Designers
Catalogue

Glossary
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Erscheinungsdatum
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 197 x 248 mm
Gewicht 717 g
Themenwelt Kunst / Musik / Theater Antiquitäten
Kunst / Musik / Theater Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
ISBN-10 1-78130-067-4 / 1781300674
ISBN-13 978-1-78130-067-1 / 9781781300671
Zustand Neuware
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