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Item Number: 122057
Title: Masterpieces of American Silver in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1650–1800
Author: Carver Wees, Beth (et al)
Price: Not Available
ISBN: 9780300191837
Description: New Haven: Yale University Press, 2013. 31cm., hardcover, 328pp. prof. illus., most in color. Summary : This lavishly illustrated book documents the most dstinguished works from the Metropolitan Museum’s extensive collection of domestic, ecclesiastical and presentation silver from the Colonial and Federal periods. Detailed discussions provide a stylistic and socio-historical context for each piece, offering a wealth of new information to both specialist and non-specialist readers. Every object is documented with new photography that captures details, marks and heraldic engraving. Finally, accompanying essays discuss issues of patronage and provenance, design and craft, and patterns of ownership and collecting, providing windows onto the past that help bring these pieces to life.

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