Antique English Chelsea Porcelain / Massive Illustrated Book - 433 Pages!

Description

Lavishly illustrated in color and black-and-white, this early out-of-print book provides an in-depth pictorial survey of Chelsea and other English porcelain figurines and works of art.
CHELSEA AND OTHER ENGLISH PORCELAIN, POTTERY AND ENAMEL – Collection of Irwin Untermyer
by Yvonne Hackenbroch, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Harvard University Press, 1957.
Over 345 items are pictured and described in this scholarly survey.  “Each object is illustrated and described and, whenever appropriate, comments have been added relating to origins, technical characteristics and stylistic qualities.  The successive marks used at Chelsea make possible the determination of a basic chronology by means of which can be traced the transition of simplicity to the more elaborate later forms.  A similar evolution is reflected in the products of Bow, Derby, Worcester and other English factories.”  There’s a wealth of information in this bible-thick book.
Oversize / heavy 9.3” x 12.1” hardback with dust cover in very good condition.  433 pages.
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