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The world-renowned collection of European decorative arts from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston is full of sumptuous surprises. Some delicate and some divine, the objects range from an opulent automaton to a richly wrought crosier, and vary in scale from a salt cellar in the form of a crustacean to t...
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Museum of Fine Arts,
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Boston : New York, New York : |
| Publication Dates: |
2014. [date of distribution not identified] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Edition: | First edition. |
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| Summary: |
The world-renowned collection of European decorative arts from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston is full of sumptuous surprises. Some delicate and some divine, the objects range from an opulent automaton to a richly wrought crosier, and vary in scale from a salt cellar in the form of a crustacean to the fine wood panelling of an entire dining room. Their dates of manufacture span more than a thousand years the earliest made shortly after the fall of the Roman Empire and the most recent in the computer age. They reach across space as well as time, bearing evidence not only of cultural exchange |
| Carrier Form: | 224 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-218) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780878468225 0878468226 |
| Index Number: | NK460 |
| CLC: | J535-62 |
| Call Number: | J535-62/M624 |