Going for gold
Subtitle: craftsmanship and collecting of gold boxes
By: Edited by Tessa Murdoch and Heike Zech
Publisher: Sussex Academic Press
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 262
ISBN-13: 9781845194659
Copyright date: 2014
Subjects: Gold boxes; History; Collectors and collecting
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Snuff-taking, Fashion and Accessories / Tessa Murdoch; title: From the Boîte à Portrait to the Tabatière: The Production of Gold Boxes in Paris / Charles Truman; title: The Manufacture of Gold Boxes in Eighteenth-century Paris: The Ducrollay Workshop and its Successors Tiron de Nanteuil and Drais / Vincent Bastien; title: Designs for Gold Boxes in the Album of the Workshop of Jean Ducrollay and his Successors / Heike Zech; title: Swiss Gold Boxes: Myth or Reality? / Julia Clarke Chapter; title: Gold Box Production in Hanau: The extended Workbench of Frankfurt and its Trade Fair / Lorenz Seelig; title: Beyond the royal court: Thoughts on the Gold Box Production in Berlin during the Reign of Frederick the Great / Winfried Baer; title: Taddel, Stiehl and Neuber in Dresden: Three Makers of Gold Boxes during the second half of the Eighteenth Century / Jutta Kappel; title: Western European Refinement and Asiatic Luxury: Gold Boxes for the Imperial Court in Saint Petersburg / Olga Kostjuk; title: Jean Pierre Ador and Russian Gold Boxes / Alexander von Solodkoff; title: Jean Pierre Ador in London / Roger Smith; title: Retailing Gold Boxes in London and Bath / Vanessa Brett; title: Florentine Snuffboxes / Alvar Gonzalez-Palacios; title: Count Brühl and his Collection of Porcelain Boxes / Ute Christina Koch; title: Romanticism or Deceit: Some counterfeit eighteenth-century Parisian Gold Boxes in the Rijksmuseum / Reinier Baarsen; title: Gold Boxes in the British Royal Collection / Kathryn Jones; title: The Rothschilds as European Collectors of Gold Boxes / Pippa Shirley.