Meissen, Organized by the Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami 1977, 1st Ed

Selections From The Art Museum Princeton University. Published by Princeton University Art Museum / Yale University Press, 2014. 1st Ed softcover exhibition catalog. 303 pp. With hundreds of illustrations, mainly in color. Catalog of an exhibition held at Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology at the University of Oxford...

Pavlovsk: Volume 2 The Collections by Emmanuel Ducamp. Published by Alain de Gourcuff, Paris, 1993. 1st Ed hardcover. The most authoritative work on Pavlovsk in English. A stunningly photographed book, conveying the beauty of this Russian treasure. It focuses entirely on the art and architecture of Pavlovsk, the 18th-century palace near St. Petersburg built for the Grand Duke Pavel Petrovich and his wife, Maria Feodorovna...

The Shanghai Museum by The Curators of the Shanghai Museum. Published by Scala Publishers Ltd, 2007. 1st Ed softcover. The Shanghai Museum is the finest museum of modern China - in terms of wealth of collection, display and architecture. Originally built in 1952 on the site of the old race course, it re-opened in 1993 in a startling new building in Renmin Square in the heart of central Shanghai. Designed in the shape of an ancient bronze ding...

Russian Imperial Style by Laura Cerwinske. Published by Prentice Hall, NY, 1990. Stated 1st Ed hardcover with dust jacket. Sumptuously illustrated with over 100 stunning full-page co...

Industrial Art and the Museum by Charles R. Richards. 1st Ed hardcover published by The Macmillan Company, 1927. Including: Industrial Art Museums of Germany (München, Hess. Landesmu...

The Metropolitan Museum of Art: The Renaissance in the North. Published by The Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY, 1987. 1st Ed hardcover with dust jacket. At roughly the same time that Italian art was beginning to reflect a reawakening of the classical spirit—an epoch and style we call the Renaissance—the arts of Northern Europe were experiencing their own efflorescence. Painting, sculpture, and the graphic arts were pursued with a new vigor in the Netherlands, in Germany, in France, and in England, and resulted in a vast body of work that constitutes one of the glories of Western civilization. During the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, the masters of the North developed styles quite distinct from those in the South: an attention to minute detail, particularly with regard to landscape, but also in domestic interiors; and an emotive piety that dramatized the sorrow and suffering of the Passion. Jan van Eyck's Crucifixion and Last Judgment present a horrific vision of the death of Christ and the damnation of sinners, set against a deep and distant landscape, sensitively and realistically rendered. The Lamentation by Petrus Christus...

Royal Doulton Figures 1st Ed. 1st Printing, Hardcover Book 1978. Royal Doulton Figures Produced at Berslem c1890 - 1978 Desmond Eyles & Richard Dennis. Published by Royal Doulton T...

A 19th century Meissen Porcelain Model Of Empress Catherine II Of Russia's Favorite Dog (Russisches Windspiel). This delightful 19th-century Meissen porcelain model depicts Empress C...

Antique Meissen compote in openwork porcelain with hand-painted flowers, insects and gold decoration. Marcolini period 1774-1814. Museum quality. M...

Magnificent set of twelve Meissen fruit or dessert plates with museum quality paintings of different fruits on each plate. If you scroll through the pict...

Pagodas are a form of Buddhist architecture. Before Buddhism was introduced to China from India, there had been no pagodas in China. The structures of pagodas are called stupa, meani...

Meissen Gorgeous Figurine Group created by Michel Victor Acier (1736 - 1799) around the year 1774: Placidness of Childhood Specifications: A most lovely baby child lies on an ...