Zapadnoevropeiskii farfor v Ermitazhe: katalog sobraniia (Western European Porcelain in the Hermitage: Catalogue of the Collection)
St. Petersburg: NestorIstoriia / Herm, 2003. Sewn cl. The curator of the Hermitage collection published this book outside the scope of the museum’s usual publication program. It is useful mainly as a history of the formation of the collection: different chapters focus on the main sources of porcelain in the Hermitage: gifts that Grand Duke Paul (later emperor) received during his tour of Western Europe in the 1780s; D. P. Tatichchev’s collecting; gifts to Emperor Nicholas II; the collection of the Stieglits School of Technical Drawing transferred to the Hermitage after the revolution; private collections nationalized after the 1917 revolution. An introduction characterizes the Hermitage collection as exceptional for its breadth, variety, and artistic quality. 320 pp., 5 ½ x 8 ins., 228 b-&-w illus., sewn cl., Rus. Item #1894
ISBN: 5981871008
Price: $39.00