Bellaigue, Geoffrey de: Sèvres porcelain in the collection of Her Majesty the Queen. The Louis XVI service. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986. 277pp with 38 colour and over 100 monochrome plates. This copy is without dustjacket or slipcase. Cloth. 31x23cms. Study of this most famous and expensive 18th-century Sèvres soft-paste porcelain service, concentrating on the sources of decoration. With proposed chronology, documentation, biographical notes on painters and gilders.
Study of this most famous and expensive 18th-century Sèvres soft-paste porcelain service, concentrating on the sources of decoration. With proposed chronology, documentation, biographical notes on painters and gilders. Text in English
" Fribourg, Office du Livre, London, National Trust, 2 vols large in-4°, 30 x 23 cm, 447 pp ; pp. 448- 903 pp, with black/white illustrations and tipped in coloured illustrations, publisher's blue cloth with gilt lettering on spine, top edge gilt, with illustrated dustjacket. Dustwrapper with minimal traces of use (no tears !). No ex-library markings. A fine set."