Collecting Antiques For Pleasure And Profit: The Narrative Of Twenty-five Years Search For Antique Furniture, Prints, China, Paintings And Other Works …
- Author(s): Felix Gade
- Category: Furniture & Furnishings
- Publisher: London: T. W. Laurie ltd.
- Publish year: 1921
- ISBN: 9678000001290
- Number of Pages: 348
The desire to collect in some form or another appears in most people at an early age : children at school usually have a collecting hobby — stamps, butterflies, beetles, coins, birds' eggs, picture postcards — and undoubtedly the majority of mortals have the instinct more or less de- veloped. I always think the rich man does not get the same pleasure from collecting as the man of moderate means. The former can usually get what he wants by paying for it; he has of course to use judgment in his selection (or pay some expert to buy for him), but he does not get the hunting which is so fascinating.
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COLLECTING ANTIQUES FOR PLEASURE AND PROFIT
ACKNOWLEDGMENT
CONTENTS
LIST OE ILLUSTRATIONS.
INTRODUCTION.
CHAPTER I LACQUER AND MARQUETRY
CHAPTER II TWIST-LEG FURNITURE AND GATE TABLES
CHAPTER III CROMWELLIAN CHAIRS
CHAPTER IV OAK CHESTS
CHAPTER I QUEEN ANNE FURNITURE
CHAPTER II THE CHIPPENDALE PERIOD
CHAPTER III THE HEPPLEWHITE AND SHERATON PERIOD
CHAPTER I CLOCKS
CHAPTER II NEEDLEWORK
CHAPTER III RUGS AND CARPETS
CHAPTER IV ENGRAVINGS
CHAPTER I THE REAL AND THE COUNTERFEIT
CHAPTER II THE ART OF RENOVATION
CHAPTER III DEALERS
CHAPTER IV THE ANTIQUE IN AUSTRALIA
CHAPTER V ON TASTE IN DECORATION
CHAPTER VI THE ANTIQUE AND THE COUNTRYMAN
CHAPTER VII CURRENT PRICES OF WORKS OF ART