Wilson, Timothy — Italian Maiolica

Book Good Dust Jacket Included Phaidon, Christie's Limited, Oxford English text.; Hardcover (with dust jacket).; 15.5 x 22 cm.; 0.4 kg.;80 pages with 34 colour illustrations.; Used with signs of wear on the exterior and interior. The dust jacket show edge wear, scuffs and scratches on the front cover, spine and back cover. The top of the front cover show wear signs at the top, which also affected the hardcover cloth front cover. Ex-library stamp on front free end paper and another on title page. Remaining interior with minor signs of wear.; This handbook is designed as an introduction to Italian Renaissance ceramics. These colourful and highly decorative wares form a distinctive and significant part of the artistic achievement of the period. The Fortnum collection in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, is outstanding in its quality, range, and high proportion of documented pieces. In this selection Timothy Wilson is thus able to create an overview of the subject by illustrating fine and characteristic pieces by the greatest artists in the major centres of production. In his detailed commentary on each piece he provides documentary and bibliographical information, and relates the subject-matter of the painted scenes to the wider artistic culture of the time.