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Renaissance and Baroque Silver, Mounted Porcelain and Ruby Glass from the Zilkha Collection

Silver, porcelain and ruby glass seem unlikely bedfellows, yet the objects in the Zilkha Collection are all united by the medium of silver or luxury metalwork. The objects were also made, for the most part, over about a century and a half. All of them tell a fascinating story of the particular circumstances that produced them: a maker, a workshop, a patron. They also tell the wider story of the society that made them necessary or desirable; the science that made them possible; and of their survival down the centuries. More

Tombs of Paradise: The Shah-e Zende in Samarkand and Architectural Ceramics of Central Asia

The necropolis of Shah-e Zende at Samarkand represents a summit in the art of ceramic wall coverings in the Islamic world. Despite the recent increase of interest in this region, this book is the first study to describe these monuments in all detail of their decoration and its techniques and motifs, as well as the different types of ceramics used and their composition. More

Gold, Jasper and Carnelian: Johann Christian Neuber at the Saxon Court

Johann Christian Neuber (1736–1808) was a goldsmith and mineralogist at the Saxon Court. In 1769 he became director of the Grünes Gewölbe, the magnificent State Treasury, and was appointed court jeweler in 1775. This lavishly illustrated book will give readers their first comprehensive introduction to the master craftsman's oeuvre presenting boxes and other decorative objects from the Grünes Gewölbe, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and private collections from Germany, France and New York. More

Gold: Power and Allure

Few realise that gold can be found in Great Britain, and that attempts to exploit native sources have drawn prospectors from ancient Rome to Elizabethan adventurers and current commercial projects in Ireland, Scotland and Wales. In Gold: Power and Allure, 11 essays by distinguished specialists tell of the rich and previously untold story of Britain and its relationship with gold, demonstrating the country's unique golden heritage. More

Benjamin Cheverton (1794–1876) in the Thomson Collection: Artist in Ivory

From this detailed examination of his life, English sculptor Benjamin Cheverton emerges as an exceptionally talented and interesting man, operating effectively in the fields of both science and art in the early Victorian period. His principal 'profession' was as a producer of reduced-size sculpture, mostly in ivory. More

The Noble Art of the Sword: Fashion and Fencing in Renaissance Europe 1520–1630

Accompanying a major international exhibition at the Wallace Collection (17 May – 16 September 2012), this book celebrates the artistic and cultural importance of the sword, as a symbol of power and prestige, as a flamboyant fashion statement and as an icon of the Age of Discovery. More

Taking Time: Chardin's House of Cards and Other Paintings

Recently acquired by Waddesdon Manor, Jean-Siméon Chardin's early masterpiece Boy building House of Cards has a self-contained stillness that contrasts with the splendour of its new setting. This book accompanies an exhibition at Waddesdon that will unite Chardin's four paintings of a boy with a house of cards for the first time. More

Masterpieces of European Arms and Armour in the Wallace Collection and Complete Digital Catalogue of European Arms and Armour

Published on a USB drive, the Complete Digital Catalogue presents all the arms and armour held by the Wallace Collection in more than 7000 photographs, ranging from whole pieces to close details and presenting them from many angles. This magnificient and visually stunning resource is both rapidly searchable and is fully comprehensive, containing the texts of Sir James Mann's 1962 catalogue of Europena arms and amour, A.V.B. Norman's 1986 Supplement and every catalogue going back to 1900. More

The Wallace Collection Catalogue of Gold Boxes

Of exquisite workmanship, the Wallace gold boxes share the elaborate richness of the larger-scale French 18th-century art in the collection, but on an intimate and jewel-like scale. Most of the boxes were made in Paris during the 18th century and were used as snuff containers. More

Spanish Fashion in Early Modern Europe: The Prevalence and Prestige of Spanish Attire in the Courts of the 16th and 17th Centuries

The modes of dress adopted at the Spanish court were highly influential elsewhere in Europe from about the mid sixteenth to the mid seventeenth century – the period corresponding to Spanish political hegemony. The nature and prevalence of the diffusion of Spanish fashion is, however, a phenomenon that has never been systematically studied, partly because it is no easy task to pool the numerous sources of information, both archival (in many languages) and visual. More