The Parian phenomenon : a survey of Victorian Parian porcelain statuary & busts / edited by Paul Atterbury ; with contributions from Maureen Batkin [and others]
1989, 1st edition. Somerset, Eng. : Richard Dennis. Fine paperback copy. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Item #387030
ISBN: 0903685221
Physical description; 268 pp., illustrations (some color), facsimiles, portraits ; 31 cm. Notes; Ill on endpapers. Includes bibliographical references. Contents; Origin and development of Parian / Maureen Batkin and Paul Atterbury -- Summerly's art manufactures / Maureen Batkin and Paul Atterbury -- Art unions / Roger Smith -- Parian & sculpture / Benedict Read -- French modellers in the potteries / Philip Ward-Jackson -- Minton / Maureen Batkin and Martin Greenwood -- Copeland / Maureen Batkin and Martin Greenwood -- Wedgwood Carrara / Maureen Batkin -- Worcester busts and figures / Henry Sandon -- Robinson and Leadbeter figures and portrait busts -- Figures and busts by miscellaneous makers -- Parian by unknown makers -- Biographies of Parian sculptors and modellers / Maureen Batkin -- Biographies of Parian subjects / Jill Rumsey -- Marks on Parian. Subjects; Batkin, Maureen. Greenwood, Martin. Read, Benedict. Smith, Roger. Ward-Jackson, Philip. Parian porcelain Themes, motives. 19th century. Victorian. Busts. Sculpture.
Price: €165.00