"The Sèvres collection in the Wallace Collection is second only to the Royal Collection in size and importance... Savill ... offers the reader more than just a catalogue raisonn'; her approach is encyclopedic... This catalogue is without parallel."
- Sir Geoffrey de Bellaigue The Burlington Magazine.
"...an indispensable instrument of research for all those with an interest in eighteenth-century porcelain, not only French, but also European, for Sèvres was widely admired and copied. It should delight art historians, anyone interested in the development of taste and manners and indeed a wide audience of lovers of the decorative arts." Tamara Preaud Apollo.
The Wallace Collection contains one of the richest and most distinguished collections of eighteenth-century Sèvres porcelain in the world. It includes 137 vases, 80 tea wares, 67 useful wares, 3 biscuit figures and 130 plaques (mostly on furniture), and was acquired by the Marquesses of Hertford and Sir Richard Wallace between c. 1802 and c. 1875. Previously published between 1902 and 1920 only in summary form, it is now catalogued in detail in three handsome volumes. There are 314 colour plates; 366 black and white illustrations of models, drawings, engravings and comparative pieces; 475 painted and incised marks and line drawings of shapes and tooling on gilding. Individual entries are preceded by a detailed discussion of each model, with extensive reference to the Sèvres documents and to other examples in public and private collections. The fourteen appendices include notes on designers, painters, gilders and shareholders at the factory, on incised marks, dating problems and the redecoration of Sèvres in England, and a glossary.
1272 pp.
235 mm - 185 mm 314 colour pictures, 366 black and white illustrations.
ISBN 0 900785 31 4
In 3 paperback volumes with slip case .
