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Britannia & Muscovy: English Silver at the Court of the Tsars

Door Natalya Abramova e.a.

Categorie	Edelmetalen & Metalen
Boeknummer	#361213-AC28
Titel	Britannia & Muscovy: English Silver at the Court of the Tsars
Auteur	Abramova, Natalya & Olga Dmitrieva
Boektype	Gebonden hardcover met stofomslag
Uitgeverij	New Haven : Yale Center for British Art
Jaar van uitgave	2006
ISBN10	0300116780
ISBN13	9780300116786
Taal	Engels
Beschrijving	Original black cloth, silver lettered spine, dust jacket, illustrated with numerous (full page) colour photographs, 4to.
Samenvatting	Accompanying an exhibition of English silver in the Moscow Kremlin Museums, where sixteenth- and seventeenth-century silver is housed. The silver items - a large water pot with snake-shaped flagon shaped like a leopard, and more - exemplify the developing ties between England and Russia. This superbly illustrated book accompanies an exhibition of thirty objects from the exceptional collection of English silver in the Moscow Kremlin Museums, where the world's greatest surviving group of English sixteenth- and seventeenth-century silver is housed. Much of the silver from this period was melted down during the English Civil War, making the pieces at the Kremlin exceedingly rare and historically important. The silver items—a large water pot with snake-shaped handle and spout, a flat dr... (Lees verder)inking cup, a magnificent flagon shaped like a leopard, and more—exemplify the developing ties between England and Russia. Some pieces were brought to Russia as diplomatic gifts, some were presented by English trading agents, while others were purchased for the Tsar's Treasury. Setting these silver treasures in fuller context, the catalogue also features precious objects made by Russian craftsmen, a group of English firearms from the Kremlin collection, and portraits, engravings, books, and maps that illuminate the important diplomatic and commercial exchanges that were taking place between the two countries. In addition to essays by Kremlin curators Natalya Abramova, Elena Yablonskaya, and Irina Zagarodnaya, the catalogue will include writings by Paul Bushkovitch, Olga Dmitrieva, Philippa Glanville, Maija Jansson, and Edward Kasinec. Published in association with the Yale Center for British Art
Pagina's	305
Conditie	Goed
Prijs	€ 20,00

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