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Going for gold: craftsmanship and collecting of gold boxes


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Snuff-taking, Fashion and Accessories / Tessa Murdoch -- From the Boîte à Portrait to the Tabatière: The Production of Gold Boxes in Paris / Charles Truman -- The Manufacture of Gold Boxes in Eighteenth-century Paris: The Ducrollay Workshop and its Successors Tiron de Nanteuil and Drais / Vincent Bastien -- Designs for Gold Boxes in the Album of the Workshop of Jean Ducrollay and his Successors / Heike Zech -- Swiss Gold Boxes: Myth or Reality? / Julia Clarke -- Gold Box Production in Hanau: The extended Workbench of Frankfurt and its Trade Fair / Lorenz Seelig -- Gold Boxes in Berlin: Thoughts on their Production for and beyond the Royal Court during the Reign of Frederick the Great / Winfried Baer -- Taddel, Stiehl and Neuber in Dresden: Three Makers of Gold Boxes during the second half of the Eighteenth Century / Jutta Kappel -- Western European Refinement and Asiatic Luxury: Gold Boxes for the Imperial Court in Saint Petersburg / Olga Kostjuk -- Jean Pierre Ador and Russian Gold Boxes / Alexander von Solodkoff -- Jean Pierre Ador in London / Roger Smith -- Retailing Gold Boxes in London and Bath / Vanessa Brett -- Florentine Snuffboxes / Alvar Gonzalez-Palacios -- Count Brühl and his Collection of Porcelain Boxes / Ute Christina Koch -- Romanticism or Deceit: Some counterfeit eighteenth-century Parisian Gold Boxes in the Rijksmuseum / Reinier Baarsen -- Gold Boxes in the British Royal Collection / Kathryn Jones -- The Rothschilds as European Collectors of Gold Boxes / Pippa Shirley.

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    Eastbourne: Sussex academic press, 2014

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    • 9781845194659
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    Conference London, Victoria and Albert Museum, 26-28.11.2010


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