Resource Library: Articles by Subject: 18th and 19th Century Decorative Arts

18th -19th Century Decorative Arts

Note: A Google Book Search conducted March 26, 2008 located the following books published with full view. The catalogues are listed in reverse date order.

Furniture Masterpieces of Duncan Phyfe, By Charles Over Cornelius, Stanley J. Rowland. Published 1922. Pub. for the Metropolitan Museum of Art by Doubleday, Page & company. Furniture. 86 pages. Original from the University of Michigan. Digitized Nov 14, 2007
American Silver of the XVII & XVIII Centuries: A Study Based on the ..., By Alphonso Trumpbour Clearwater, Clara Louise Avery, Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.) Published 1920 by The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Silverwork. 216 pages. Original from Harvard University. Digitized Aug 23, 2007

also see:

American Masters of Hollow Ware in the Late 20th Century, by Georgia Museum of Art - 1997. Notes. 06/98.
Ann Orr: Silversmith, Goldsmith, & Enamelist, by Lane Coulter, Virginia Shields, William U. Eiland, Gary Noffke - Crafts & Hobbies - 1994. Catalog of an exhibition held at the Georgia Museum of Art, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, September 24-November 13, 1994.

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