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**THE NUMBER ONE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER** **WINNER OF THE 2010 COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARD** 264 wood and ivory carvings, none of them bigger than a matchbox: Edmund de Waal was entranced when he first encountered the collection in his great uncle Iggie's Tokyo apartment.
Netsuke have once again come to the fore in the popular imagination of the public. This book brings together one hundred of the beautiful and interesting netsuke from the extensive collection of the British Museum, each of which has its own special charm and story to tell.
Uses contemporary research to analyse the sacred objects of the Mumuye.
Features the carvings of master engravers Gerd and Patrick Dreher - 114 gemstone animals, each one made from an individual gemstone.
Jacobo Castellano, (Jaen, 1976), is one of the most complex and solid contemporary Spanish artists. His sculptural work follows a defined line in which the recovery of... Læs mere
A collection of antique tribal sculpture from varied cultures from Nepal eastward to Hawaii, with the majority from Indonesia and Southeast Asia.
This study emphasizes the placement and scale of images and how they reveal the development of economic and social control at Kition from... Læs mere
The Thomson Collection contains examples of the highest quality of most types of medieval ivory carving, both secular and religious.
In 1966 Mark Gambier-Parry bequeathed to the Courtauld the art collection formed by his grandfather Thomas Gambier Parry... Læs mere