Sotheby's caring for antiques : a guide to handling, cleaning, display, and restoration
Details
Type of record: Book
Title: Sotheby's caring for antiques : a guide to handling, cleaning, display, and restoration
Other titles: Caring for antiques
Classmark: Bedford Collection B143
Additional creator(s): Simpson, Mette Tang (Editor); Huntley, Michael (Editor); Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019) (Former owner); Sotheby's (Firm) (Originator)
Publisher: Conran Octopus
Publication city: London
Date(s): 1992
Language: English
Size and medium: 192 pages
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/729326
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991019878552805181
Description
Includes bibliographical references (page 184) and index.
Foreword / Jonathan Ashley-Smith -- Introduction / Graham Child -- Furniture / John Kitchin -- Ceramics / David Armitage -- Glass / Sandra Davison -- Metals / Hazel Newey -- Arms and armour / Frederick Wilkinson -- Coins and medals / Andrew Oddy -- Jewellery, objects of vertu / Alexandra Rhodes and Haydn Williams -- Clocks and watches / David Newell -- Scientific instruments / Lawrence Birnie -- Paintings / David Bomford -- Miniatures / Jim Murrell -- Paper conservation / Jane McAusland -- Drawings and watercolours / Jane McAusland -- Prints and maps / Mette Tang Simpson -- Photographs / Elizabeth Martin -- Wallpapaer / Allyson McDermott -- Books and manuscripts / Christopher Clarkson -- Carpets and rugs / Christopher Clarkson -- Textiles / Marion Kite -- Sculpture and statuary / John Larson -- Directory of conservation organizations.
Provenance
Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection B143: From the John Evan Bedford Library, gifted in 2019. Twenty-first-century pictorial bookplate on front pastedown: John Evan Bedford. Former reference: RC/3.
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