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Silver in England
Engelsk
Bogcover for Silver in England af Philippa Glanville, 9780415850674
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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
390
ISBN-13:
9780415850674
Indbinding:
Paperback
ISBN-10:
0415850673
Udg. Dato:
15 mar 2013
Størrelse i cm:
21,6 x 13,8
Oplagsdato:
15 mar 2013
Forfatter(e):

Silver in England

Engelsk
Paperback 2013
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First Published in 2005. Silver is unique among the decorative arts in that its raw material is both inherently valuable and infinitely reusable. Its ownership has been a social bench-mark and its form has exercised the skills of sculptors, designers, chasers and engravers, but ultimately it could be, and normally was, melted down and refashioned quite without sentiment. Because of this constant recycling, the survival of any individual object is quite random and unrelated to its uniqueness or otherwise in its period. Hitherto plate historians have focused on individual objects almost to the exclusion of the context - social or economic - from which they came but now that context is seen as crucial in understanding historic plate. So in the first section of this book each chapter considers contemporary attitudes and usage.
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Specifikationer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
390
ISBN-13:
9780415850674
Indbinding:
Paperback
ISBN-10:
0415850673
Udg. Dato:
15 mar 2013
Størrelse i cm:
21,6 x 13,8
Oplagsdato:
15 mar 2013
Forfatter(e):
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