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Historic Cutlery

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ISBN-10: 3897901676

ISBN-13: 9783897901674

Edition: 2003

Authors: Jochen Amme

List price: $210.00
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The more than 3,500 items in this unique private collection of cutlery, illustrated with 450 large colour plates, present the expert and the amateur with an outstanding survey of the changing shapes of eating implements from the palaeolithic to the twentieth century. The complete collection is divided into three parts:- Part 1 covers cutlery from prehistoric times to the seventeenth/eighteenth century. Part 2 unites 'table-ware' from the eighteenth century to the classicist period, which means cutlery laid out to 'cover' the table (as in cover charge), an extension of its earlier derivation from French 'coutelier', a cutter. Part 3 shows cutlery from the Historicism of the Neue Sachlichkeit…    
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Book details

List price: $210.00
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: Arnoldsche Art Publishers
Publication date: 3/1/2002
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 664
Size: 10.25" wide x 13.25" long x 2.50" tall
Weight: 10.890
Language: English