Gosudarstvennyi muzei-zapovednik Pavlovsk: Polnyi katalog kollektsii, tom IV, Tkani, vypusk 2, Dekorativnye vyshivki (State Museum- Preserve Pavlovsk: Complete Catalogue of the Collections, vol. IV, Textiles, vypusk 2, Decorative Embroidery)
St. Petersburg: Pavlovsk, 2012. sewn pb. The museum at Pavlovsk, bound as it is by the dimensions of the eighteenth-century palace, can keep only a small part of its collections on display and hence the significance of the publication of complete collection catalogues that make available for researchers the museum’s rich collections of fine and applied arts mainly deriving from Western Europe and Russia. In this volume the museum publishes its decorative embroidery work, which has pieces of various functions and techniques: furniture covers, tapestries, table cloths, pillows, etc. Illustrations often show the works as they appear in the rooms for which they were acquired or designed — architects as Charles Cameron and Andrei Voronikhin considered fabrics as an integral part of palace interiors. The majority of works were embroidered in Russia; many come from France, and a few from Iran and Japan. The introduction reviews the collection’s history, tracing provenance to the historical collection formed when Pavlovsk was an imperial residence. The scholarly apparatus comprises bibliography, list of archival materials, index, and glossary. 184 pp., 8 3/8 x 10 3/4 ins., 2 b-&-w illus., 435 color, Rus. Item #608
ISBN: 9785918160183
Price: $83.00