Russian Decorative Arts
$119.15
- Hardcover
304 pages
- Release Date
22 April 2014
Summary
Russia’s last great Imperial celebration took place at the Winter Palace in St. Petersburg with the lavish ball of 1913 celebrating 300 years of Romanov rule. The finest gowns, jewels, snuff boxes, porcelain and silver tableware of the Tsarist era were ostentatiously displayed then for the last time. The outbreak of World War I in 1914 and the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917 brought such flamboyance to an end. Ever since the collapse of the Soviet Union, Russians have been desperate to track do…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781851497225 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1851497226 |
| Author: | Cynthia Coleman Sparke |
| Publisher: | ACC Art Books |
| Imprint: | ACC Art Books |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 304 |
| Release Date: | 22 April 2014 |
| Weight: | 2.12kg |
| Dimensions: | 300mm x 237mm |
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About The Author
Cynthia Coleman Sparke
Having grown up in a family of Russian art collectors and lived on and off in Moscow and St. Petersburg, Cynthia Coleman Sparke was hardwired to work in the field. After a stint running the Russian department at Christie’s NY, she worked with the Faberge and Imperial porcelain holdings of the Hillwood Museum in Washington D.C. (the largest collection of Russian decorative arts outside of Russia). Then followed a project in St. Petersburg at the Alexander Palace in Tsarskoe Selo helping with the restoration of Tsar Nicholas II’s last residence - the subject of her Master’s thesis from the Bard Graduate Center. Currently consulting for Bonhams, she is responsible for the decorative arts section of our bi-yearly Russian sales.
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