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This third volume in the Frick Diptych series offers fresh insight into a pair of candelabra that represent the pinnacle of luxury and taste in the years prior to the French Revolution. Vignon tells the fascinating story of these objects that are made of two small white vases with extraordinary gilt-bronze mounts by Pierre Gouthière, the celebrated eighteenth-century French chaser and gilder. Vignon's essay is paired with a text by De Waal in which he examines what it is to make, own, and desire such complex objects

Gouthière's Candelabras

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Hardback by Charlotte Vignon , Edmund De Waal

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This third volume in the Frick Diptych series offers fresh insight into a pair of candelabra that represent the pinnacle... Read more

    Publisher: D Giles Ltd
    Publication Date: 21/05/2019
    ISBN13: 9781911282471, 978-1911282471
    ISBN10: 1911282476

    Number of Pages: 56

    Non Fiction , Art & Photography

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    This third volume in the Frick Diptych series offers fresh insight into a pair of candelabra that represent the pinnacle of luxury and taste in the years prior to the French Revolution. Vignon tells the fascinating story of these objects that are made of two small white vases with extraordinary gilt-bronze mounts by Pierre Gouthière, the celebrated eighteenth-century French chaser and gilder. Vignon's essay is paired with a text by De Waal in which he examines what it is to make, own, and desire such complex objects

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