This beautifully
illustrated work brings together more than one hundred objects from the J. Paul
Getty Museum’s collection of European decorative arts. Included here is a generous
selection of French and Italian furniture from the mid-sixteenth to the early
nineteenth century. Masterpieces by André-Charles Boulle, Bernard (II) van
Risenburgh, and others reveal the virtuoso craftsmanship that makes these
objects such compelling examples of the furniture maker’s art. Many of the
Museum’s finest pieces of porcelain, glass, and tin-glazed earthenware are also
represented. Tapestries from Gobelins and Beauvais, bronze firedogs from
Fontainebleau, and a lathe-turned ivory goblet of astonishing complexity from
Saxony are among the other highlights of this handsome volume.