The plaquette collections in the British Museum

Author

Pollard, J. Graham

Document type

Livre (actes de congrès)

Language

English

Conference name

Italian plaquettes

Source

Studies in the history of art. 1989, Num. 22, p. 227-245, 3 ill.

ISSN

0091-7338

Abstract (en)

A survey of the largest unpublished collection in existence, consisting of ca.500 examples, including an account of the gift of Whitcombe Greene (1915) and other benefactors, a remarkable group of 14 fake plaquettes presented in 1926 (appendix A), and a summary list of 373 Italian examples (appendix B).

Subject (en)

• General history of art -- 1400-1800 -- Decorative arts -- Metalwork
• Greene, Thomas Whitcombe, 1842-1932
• Collections
• Collectors
• Great Britain
• 1800-2000
• British Museum||London (GBR)
• Plaquettes
• Forgery
• Metalwork

Subject (fr)

• Histoire générale de l'art -- 1400-1800 -- Arts décoratifs -- Arts du métal
• Greene, Thomas Whitcombe, 1842-1932
• Collections
• Collectionneurs
• Grande-Bretagne
• 1800-2000
• British Museum||London (GBR)
• Plaquette
• Faux
• Art du métal

Origin

DatabaseBHA (Inist-CNRS/GRI)

Identifier19910101-00446508

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