SVEND ERIKSEN. Sèvres Porcelain.

The James A de Rothschild Collection at Waddesdon Manor. Published by Fribourg: Office Du Livre, 1968. 339pp. with about 208 illustrations of which 32 are tipped in color plates. Blue cloth with top edge gilt. Book is near fine copy in a poor dust jacket. The Sevres porcelain collection at Waddesdon Manor forms part of the remarkable collection of art works at the house bequeathed by James A. de Rothschild to the National Trust in 1957. Contents include early history, leading personalities, throwers and repairers, painters, gilders and gilders' marks, ground colors, blue colors, green colors and pink colors, the catalog of the collection and biographical notes on artists and craftsmen.