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Alfred Baur, pioneer and collector

Title: Alfred Baur, pioneer and collector / Texts by Monique Crick, Helen Loveday, Estelle Niklès van Osselt ; photographs by Hughes Dubois.
Author: Collections Baur.
Publication: Geneva : Fondation Baur ; Milano : Five Continents Editions, 2015.

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455 pages : color illustrations; 29 cm

Summary

Published to celebrate the 150th anniversary of Alfred Baur's birth (1865-1951) and the 50th anniversary of the Baur Foundation, Museum of Far Eastern Art, this book presents one of the major collections of Asian art through an opulent selection from the 9000 objects of the arts of China and Japan, today housed in an elegant private mansion constructed in Geneva during the late nineteenth century. Alfred Baur, Pioneer and collector combines the history of the Far East with that of the man who founded the company A. Baur & Co. Ltd. in Colombo (Ceylon) in 1897. Guided by the stunning photographs of Hughes Dubois, readers are led into the museum to discover both the essence of the collection and the life of a man fascinated by the arts of the Far East. Sabre fittings, netsuke, lacquer ware, prints, jades and imperial ceramics: the illustrations show the diversity of the works and the quality of the collection as a whole. The precious Japanese objects, so meticulously worked and of technical perfection, reveal the outstanding skills of Japanese craftsmen, while the simplicity of the forms of the Chinese monochrome ceramics display the contemporaneity of the visionary master ceramists of the Song dynasty.

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Call Number

JQF 16-628

ISBN

9788874396931
8874396937
2880310253
9782880310257

OCLC

898114298

Author

Collections Baur.

Title

Alfred Baur, pioneer and collector / Texts by Monique Crick, Helen Loveday, Estelle Niklès van Osselt ; photographs by Hughes Dubois.

Publisher

Geneva : Fondation Baur ; Milano : Five Continents Editions, 2015.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Added Author

Crick, Monique, contributor.

Loveday, Helen, contributor.

Niklès van Osselt, Estelle, contributor.

Dubois, Hughes, photographer.

Research Call Number

JQF 16-628

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