Evaluating Your Collection: The 14 Points of Connoisseurship

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Evaluating Your Collection: The 14 Points of Connoisseurship (Winterthur Decorative Arts Series)

What do Honus Wagner baseball cards, Queen Anne side chairs, and 19th-century ceramic lions have in common? At first glance, very little. Yet Evaluating Your Collection sets out to discuss this wide range of things that people collect, in order to guide them to a greater level of knowledge.

Is an object really worth the price? How does one know what to look for? Can one recognize fakes and invisible repairs? What about color, finish, and form? In 1961, Charles F. Montgomery, Winterthur's first director, articulated a system for educating the eye and appraising the quality of an object. His fourteen points of connoisseurship, along with additions by Winterthur curators, conservators, and educators, form an unbeatable system. Understanding them, and how they interrelate, equips readers with a basic expertise necessary to operate in the world of antiques.

Compact, reader-friendly, and illustrated in full color with objects largely from Winterthur's outstanding collection, this and future series volumes provide invaluable advice. Armed with tips from the experts, your trips to estate auctions, flea markets, or your grandmother's attic will never be the same.

Country	USA
Author	Dwight Lanmon
Binding	Paperback
Brand	Brand: Winterthur
EAN	9780912724508
Edition	1st
Feature	Used Book in Good Condition
ISBN	0912724501
Label	Winterthur
Manufacturer	Winterthur
NumberOfItems	1
NumberOfPages	123
PublicationDate	1999-07-01
Publisher	Winterthur
Studio	Winterthur
ReleaseDate	0000-00-00

Evaluating Your Collection: The 14 Points of Connoisseurship (Winterthur Decorative Arts Series)

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