A masterful deciphering of an extraordinary art object, illuminating some of the biggest questions of the eighteenth century. The Throne of the Great Mogul (1701-1708) is a unique work of European decorative art: an intricate miniature of the court...

Charlotte Ribeyrol presents a fascinating (book)case study exploring the story of an extraordinary object, William Burges's (1827-1881) Great Bookcase. No fewer than 13 major artists, including Edward Burne-Jones, Edward Poynter, and Albert Moore, to...

The collection of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century French silver at the J. Paul Getty Museum is of exceptional quality and state of preservation. Each piece is remarkable for its beauty, inventive form, skillful execution, illustrious provenance,...

Illuminating three centuries of European artistry and ingenuity, this volume in The Met's acclaimed How to Read series provides a wide-ranging exploration of decorative arts from British writing tables to Russian snuffboxes. Spanning three decades o...

Brings together a superb collection of over 650 detailed examples English furniture and needlework from 1600 to 1760. These volumes are dedicated to one of the finest collections of early English furniture and needlework, formed by Percival D. Griff...

This visually stunning love letter to the art of craft takes readers inside Europe's most illustrious – and in many cases endangered – decorative arts workshops to profile how artisans continue to maintain the highest centuries-old standards of workm...

Showcasing marbled paper, paste paper, fold-and-dye papers, and more, this book reveals a little-known arts phenomenon from its grass roots in the 1960s to artistic heights in the following decades. "Pattern and Flow" chronicles the flourishing of A...

The chairs in this private collection are not an assembly of objects of everyday use. They are a congregation of creatures often eluding their primary purpose as seating. Metaphorically exaggerated height and disassociation transform the chairs into...

Nineteenth-century stoneware by enslaved and free potters living in Edgefield, South Carolina, highlights the central role of Black artists in the region's long-standing pottery traditions. Recentering the development of industrially scaled Southern...

The founding of the first Persian Empire by the Achaemenid king Cyrus the Great in the sixth century BCE established one of the greatest world powers of antiquity. Extending from the borders of Greece to northern India, Persia was seen by the Greeks...