Objects of Adornment: Five Thousand Years of Jewelry from the Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore - Softcover
Catalog created for a traveling exhibition which opened October, 1984. Paperback, 8.5 x 10 inches, 190 pages, illustrated in color and black & white, Glossary. From Introduction: "...The jewelry selected for this exhibition represents the chronological range of Henry Walters' collecting: the earliest works date from about 3000 B.C., and the latest were created during the first years of the twentieth century. The highlights are too numerous to isolate in this brief introduction, but one cannot help but mention the Olbia Treasure in the ancient material, the great Visigothic eagle brooches and the Byzantine jewelry in the medieval selection, the Renaissance pendant collection, and among the modern pieces the tours-de-force created by Lalique and Tiffany & Co. When the jewelry collection was first exhibited as a whole at the Walters in 1979, it caused nothing less than a sensation...."
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- PublisherAmerican Federation of Arts
- Publication date1984
- ISBN 10 0917481763
- ISBN 13 9780917481765
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number1
- Number of pages190
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