Hardcover
2010 · New York
by Koeppe, Wolfram
New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2010. Hardcover. NF/NF. Navy blue cloth/boards; silver lettering. Color-photographic dj with white lettering on blue spine. French flaps and decorative end papers. xi, 112 pp. with 57 color images and 9 bw. Catalogue from the exhibition held December 2010 to April 2011 at the Met Museum. Includes sections on the Golden Age of Ceremony, the Rise of Vienna as a Cultural Center, and the actual Second Saschen-Teschen Silver Service rediscovery. The service includes tureens, ewers, covered dishes, salt cellars, candle ware, wine coolers, serving and dinner plates, flatware and serving pieces, etc. With a list of works in the exhibition. Amazing.
(Inventory #: 162492)