Superb Eighteenth Century American Furniture And Silver Early American Portraits And Miniatures PDF Download

Excerpt from American Furniture and Silver by Foremost Craftsmen of the Colonial and Early Federal Periods, Important American Portraits by Stuart, Copley, Savage, and Other Celebrated Artists: Rare Historical Miniatures, Glass Staffordshire Figurines, and a Group of Notable English Silver, From the Collection of Herbert Lawton, Boston, Sold by His Order; Public Sale April 2 and 3 at 2 P. M The American silver, which compares favorably with the splendid group of pieces Offered by us in the Garvan sale, is a complete study in itself of the accomplishment of American silversmiths from' the earliest recorded period, the age Of the great New York and Boston craftsmen, to the begin ning of the nineteenth century. It is noteworthy that in recent years their work has come to be spoken of not in terms Of the functional character of the piece, be it teapot or tankard, but as an example of the maker; so that we speak of a Burt or a Coney piece in the sense that has long identified paintings with the names of their painters. To mention a few, then, of this gallery Of the great, we find examples by Adrian Bancker, John Coney, John Edwards, Paul Revere, John Burt, Job Prince, and Andrew Tyler, whose individual characteristics are as well known to the collector as those of the contemporary portraitists. A small but exceedingly choice group of English silver accompanies the American silver and includes examples dating from the reign Of Charles II, William III, and the Georges, Of a quality rarely encountered at public sale. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.