Masterpieces of English furniture : the Gerstenfeld collection
Details
Type of record: Book
Title: Masterpieces of English furniture : the Gerstenfeld collection
Classmark: Bedford Collection B450
Additional creator(s): Lennox-Boyd, Edward (Editor); Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019) (Former owner)
Related people: Gerstenfeld, S. Jon; Gerstenfeld, S. Jon
Publisher: Christie's Books
Publication city: London
Date(s): 1998
Language: English
Size and medium: 272 pages
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/730895
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991019915775605181
Description
Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-267) and index.
Introduction : collecting in the Symonds tradition / Edward Lennox-Boyd -- A critical survey : the curator's view / Christopher Gilbert -- An appreciation : the dealer's view / Robin Kern -- From Holland to Hanover / Simon Redburn -- The furniture by Thomas Chippendale / Christopher Gilbert -- Great houses and elusive makers / William Rieder -- The Anglo-Indian ivory furniture / Amin Jaffer -- Patronage and collecting : George Watson Taylor / Edward Lennox-Boyd -- English barometers / Nicholas Goodison -- Ormolu ornaments by Matthew Boulton / Nicholas Goodison -- Tea chests and tea caddies / Christopher Gilbert -- Illustrated catalogue / Edward Lennox-Boyd.
Features
Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection B450: Contains two loose clippings: 1: Edward Lennox-Boyd, et al, Masterpieces of English furniture [review] (Furniture History Society Newsletter, Nov. 1999). 2: Huon Mallalieu celebrates the furniture collection of Jon Gerstenfeld [review] (Country Living, 11 Feb. 1999)
Provenance
Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection B450: From the John Evan Bedford Library, gifted in 2019. Twenty-first-century pictorial bookplate on front pastedown: John Evan Bedford. Former reference: FC/20.
Access and usage
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