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Dreher carvings : gemstone animals from Idar-Oberstein

Title

Dreher carvings : gemstone animals from Idar-Oberstein / Raquel Alonso-Perez [and sixteen others] ; [editor, Johanna Eberl ; translation, Alison Larson, Fabian Schmitz]

Author

Dreher, Gerd, 1939-

Publication

Stuttgart : Arnoldsche, [2017]
©2017

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239 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), portraits; 30 cm

Summary

"Engravers Gerd and Patrick Dreher are famous the world over for their masterly animal figures, each of which is cut from a single gemstone. In the early twentieth century, grandfather, great-grandfather and great-great-grandfather all cut gemstones for Faberge - mostly agate but also ruby, obsidian, aquamarine, citrine and rock crystal. Today, creations are still being meticulously made by hand using traditional techniques. The realistic miniature forms of mice, snails, toads, monkeys and hippos are designed by the two artists in multilayered and coloured gemstones so that, for example, the faces, palms of the hand or soles of the feet shine in an iridescent red-brown agate while the bodies are worked in the glossy deep black part of the stone. These unique engravings are today some of the rarest examples of the highest quality in craftsmanship, and represent fascination of the highest cultural degree in a world of increasing globalisation."--

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Call Number

JQF 18-499

ISBN

9783897905078
3897905078

LCCN

9783897905078

OCLC

1012394452

Author

Dreher, Gerd, 1939-

Title

Dreher carvings : gemstone animals from Idar-Oberstein / Raquel Alonso-Perez [and sixteen others] ; [editor, Johanna Eberl ; translation, Alison Larson, Fabian Schmitz]

Publisher

Stuttgart : Arnoldsche, [2017]

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Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Added Author

Dreher, Patrick, 1970-

Alonso-Perez, Raquel, author.

Eberl, Johanna, editor.

Other Standard Identifier

9783897905078

Research Call Number

JQF 18-499

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