Masterpieces of French Faience: Selections from the Sidney R. Knafel Collection

Encompasses an impressive and engaging variety of fabulous objects from the most important faïence centres, dating from the late sixteenth to the mid-eighteenth century.

List of contents

Director's Foreword

Acknowledgments

The Collector's Recollections by Sidney R. Knafel

Innovative Tradition: Two Centuries of French Faience in the Knafel Collection by Charlotte Vignon

Bibliography

Index

Photography Credits

About the author

Sidney R. Knafel, the managing partner of New York's SRK Management Company, an investment firm, has sat on the board of trustees of The Frick Collection, New York, since 2013. A strong supporter of the arts, he is a respected collector of French faience pottery.

Summary

Published in conjunction with Masterpieces of French Faience: Selections from the Sidney R Knafel Collection on view at The Frick Collection from October 9, 2018.

Product details

• Authors: Vignon, Charlotte Vignon, Vignon Charlotte
• Publisher: Giles
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.09.2018
• EAN: 9781911282310
• ISBN: 978-1-911282-31-0
• Dimensions: 203 mm x 178 mm x 18 mm
• Weight: 402 g
• Illustrations: farbige Illustrationen
• Subjects: Guides > Hobby, home > Collecting, collectors' catalogues; Humanities, art, music > Art > Miscellaneous; France, ART / Ceramics, CRAFTS & HOBBIES / Pottery & Ceramics, ART / Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions / General, ANTIQUES & COLLECTIBLES / Pottery & Ceramics, Ceramics: artworks, Ceramics, mosaic and glass: artworks, ART / History / European / Baroque & Rococo