Decorative Arts and Collecting

This book considers how and why these women collected, and explores the obstacles they overcame to assemble the objects.

The volume presents the history of the renowned jeweler's work using the rich mineral resources of Russia, from celebrated Easter eggs to delicate animal sculptures.

This reference, designed for collectors and admirers alike, celebrates a golden age when designers from the famous luxury goods houses had a ball with novelty cocktail shakers.

The Topkapi Saray Museum's collection of Chinese ceramics is one of the world's largest and most important, yet comparatively little of it has ever been published.

The two principal techniques 'cloisonne' and 'champleve' can be traced through widely ranging cultures over many centuries, cloisonne going back as far as the sixth century BC.

Affluent tourists provided the ideal market for views of Rome and images from Ancient History and mythology, painstakingly worked in tesserae - minute pieces of coloured enamel - a technique known as

This volume contains over five hundred full-color photographs of the most important and some previously unpublished pens from the United States of America and United Kingdom.

The collection is placed in the context of the family's history and that of Rode Hall. Will appeal to collectors and historians of ceramics and social historians.