Guide to Connoisseurship of Antique Furniture and Objects

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Léon Roger-Milès (1859-1928) / Edouard Rouveyre (1849-1930). Comment devenir connaisseur - Meubles et Objets d'art ancien, Bijoux, Emaux, Faïences, Cristal de Roche, Etain, etc. Paris: Baranger, 1906. Quarto format, fine cardboard binding with minor wear to spine heads, [2]-88-[2]-96-[2]-84-[4] pages. Printed on sturdy paper with numerous black and white illustrations. First part: furniture and associated decorative accessories, vases, bowls, clocks, regulators, pendulums and cartels, fireplace accessories, candlesticks, wall-lights and candelabra. Second part: objects of high curiosity including rock crystal, majolica, enamels, dragoirs, powder boxes, tin tableware and silverware, rings and bands. Third part: museum instruction and collections, arrangement and decoration, authenticity, designation, attribution, valuation, recipes and procedures, old/new distinction and trade in forgeries, damage from restoration and sabotage (216 illustrations).