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art book cologne, founded by Bernd Detsch in 1997, is a wholesale company and specializes in buying and selling high quality publications in art, art theory, architecture, design, photography, illustrated cultural history and all related subjects internationally. Our team includes specialists in art, culture, music, book trade and media but in spite of our diversity we have one common ground: the enthusiasm for unique art books.
We purchase remaining stocks from museums, publishers and art institutions. We sell these remainders to bookstores, museum shops, and art dealers all over the world.
Wallace Collection: Catalogue of Gold Boxes
| Publisher | Wallace Collection |
| Year | 2020 |
| Cover | Cloth with dust jacket |
| Language | English |
| ISBN | 978-0-900785-94-8 |
| Pages | 352 |
| Weight | 2590 g |
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| Author(s) | Charles Truman |
| Article ID | art-58788 |
The 18th-century gold snuffbox was the ultimate fashion accessory beautifully made, exquisitely decorated and very expensive, its form and ornament subject to the changing taste of the time. Playing an important role in self-promotion, diplomacy and collecting, a box denoted status and could be used as currency for its monetary value. Its practical purpose was usually secondary.
The collection of gold boxes at the Wallace Collection is small in number, but contains some of the finest in any museum and can boast of some of the most famous boxes in the world. The 99 pieces catalogued here represent a brilliant cross-section of the products of the European goldsmith between c. 1730 and 1830.
This beautiful publication considerably advances our knowledge and appreciation of the Wallace Collections gold boxes and establishes their place in the scholarship of 18th-century decorative arts.
