Gouthiere's Candelabras

Offers fresh insight into these exquisite masterworks by Pierre Gouthiere (1732–1813), the celebrated gilder to the French kings.This third volume in the Frick's Diptych series offers fresh insight into a pair of candelabra that represent the pinnacle of luxury and taste in the years prior to the French Revolution. Vignon tells the fascinating story of these objects that are made of two small white vases with extraordinary gilt-bronze mounts by Pierre Gouthiere, the celebrated eighteenth-century French chaser and gilder. Vignon's essay is paired with a text by De Waal in which he examines what it is to make, own, and desire such complex objectsBook Features:Third volume in our major new series Frick Diptych.Follows publication in spring 2018 of Holbein's Sir Thomas More by best-selling author Hilary Mantel and fall 2018 of Vermeer's Mistress and Maid by award-winning director and writer James Ivory.Contributing author Edmund de Waal is a successful artist and best-selling author.