French Furniture and Gilt Bronzes: Baroque and Régence, Catalogue of the J. Paul Getty Museum Collection hawke Martin is assistant professor of

Martin is assistant professor of art history at Brown University

the volume offers a wealth of new information about the Getty Museum's superb collection of Italian ceramic art

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illustrated both as they appear today and with overlays indicating how they probably looked in ancient times

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French Furniture and Gilt Bronzes: Baroque and Régence, Catalogue of the J. Paul Getty Museum Collection hawke Martin is assistant professor ofGillian Wilson, Charissa Bremer David, and Jeffrey Weaver With Brian Considine and the staffs of the Department of Decorative Arts and Sculpture Conservation and the Getty Conservation Institute The exceptional collection of French decorative arts in the J. Paul Getty Museum contains more than four hundred objects, most of them dating from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. This gorgeously illustrated volume brings together forty four objects