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Furniture close up: Adam Bowett salutes the detailed scholarship of the Metropolitan Museum's latest catalogue of its American furniture, a monument to the connoisseurship of 20th-century collectors
North American museum collection catalogues are habitually thorough, detailed, meticulously researched and beautifully produced, and the latest...
Apollo, 05/01/09 by Adam Bowett · More from publication -
Lions' heads and webbed claw feet: the first book devoted to Irish furniture and woodwork raises thorny questions of definition
Irish Furniture THE KNIGHT OF GLIN & JAMES PEILL Yale University Press, 50 [pounds sterling]/$125 ISBN 978-0-300-11715-8 Irish Furniture THE...
Apollo, 09/01/07 by Adam Bowett · More from publication -
George I's furniture at Kensington Palace: historians have long been puzzled by the disappearance of the furniture supplied for the new king's apartments at Kensington Palace between 1718 and 1727—George I's only major furnishing commission. Adam Bow
The construction of the king's state apartments at Kensington Palace was the only significant building and furnishing commission initiated by...
Apollo, 11/01/05 by Adam Bowett · More from publication -
A new chronology for English walnut - veneered furniture 1670 - 1740
It has long been recognized that the construction of English case furniture during the so-called age of walnut followed a discernible pattern of...
Magazine Antiques, 06/01/02 by Adam Bowett · More from publication -
London furniture 1966 - 1714
Earlier this year a rather tired English walnut writing cabinet of about 1700 was sold for thirty thousand pounds at a provincial auction (Pls. II...
Magazine Antiques, 12/01/01 by Adam Bowett · More from publication
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