Publicado por Thames & Hudson (edition ), 2005
ISBN 10: 0500237549 ISBN 13: 9780500237540
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Publicado por Thames & Hudson, 2005
ISBN 10: 0500237549 ISBN 13: 9780500237540
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Condición: USED_GOOD. DUST JACKET HAS SOME MINOR SHELF WEAR BUT BOOK REMAINS IN GOOD READABLE CONDITION. hardcover 100% of proceeds go to charity! Good condition with all pages in tact. Item shows signs of use and may have cosmetic defects.
Publicado por Thames & Hudson, 2005
ISBN 10: 0500237549 ISBN 13: 9780500237540
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Publicado por Thames & Hudson, 2005
ISBN 10: 0500237549 ISBN 13: 9780500237540
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Publicado por Thames & Hudson, 2005
ISBN 10: 0500237549 ISBN 13: 9780500237540
Librería: Irish Booksellers, Portland, ME, Estados Unidos de America
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Publicado por Thames & Hudson, 2005
ISBN 10: 0500237549 ISBN 13: 9780500237540
Librería: Sheapast Art and Books, Sherman Oaks, CA, Estados Unidos de America
Hardcover. Condición: USED_VERYGOOD. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. Gifts of the Nile: Ancient Egyptian Faience 483 illustrations, 224 in color. hardcover in dustjacket. published by Thames & Hudson. One of the ancient world's most beautiful forms of ceramic is today known as Egyptian faience. The ancient Egyptians named it tjehnet, meaning that which is brilliant or scintillating, and in their eyes it glistened with symbolic light. Although faience was made of common materials, especially quartz sand grains or crushed quartz pebbles, it nevertheless took on the splendor of gold or semiprecious gems. The creative variety was from 36,000 faience tiles lining underground rooms in King Djoser's Third Dynasty Step Pyramid complex to tiny plaques for furniture inlay, from jewelry to statuary, from female fertility objects to perfume containers, amulets, inkwells, animal tomb gifts, mummy masks, and a host of other forms. This is the first publication to analyze fully the significance of faience in ancient Egypt, and to present the most marvelous examples of its creation. Under the skilled editorship of Florence Friedman, the world's leading scholars in the field--from the Metropolitan Museum of Art; the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; the Cleveland Museum of Art; the British Museum; and elsewhere--show how faience was used and produced, as well as its symbolic values and meanings. More than 150 pieces, drawn from public and private collections around the world, are reproduced in color and described in detail. This dazzling display looks at the origins of faience, and at its use in royal life, in daily life, and in connection with death and rebirth. Scientific data resulting from analyses of faience objects, a specially compiled glossary, and a comprehensive bibliography complete the work. "light jacket wear, clean and tight, very good".
Publicado por Thames and Hudson, 1998
ISBN 10: 0911517650 ISBN 13: 9780911517651
Librería: Hawking Books, Edgewood, TX, Estados Unidos de America
Condición: USED_VERYGOOD. Very Good Condition. Clean, tight and Neat. Five star seller - Buy with confidence!.
Publicado por Thames and Hudson, 1998
ISBN 10: 0911517650 ISBN 13: 9780911517651
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Paperback. Condición: USED_FAIR. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 3.45.
Publicado por Thames and Hudson, 1998
ISBN 10: 0911517650 ISBN 13: 9780911517651
Librería: Books Unplugged, Amherst, NY, Estados Unidos de America
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Publicado por Thames and Hudson, 1998
ISBN 10: 0911517650 ISBN 13: 9780911517651
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Condición: USED_VERYGOOD. Book is in Used-VeryGood condition. Pages and cover are clean and intact. Used items may not include supplementary materials such as CDs or access codes. May show signs of minor shelf wear and contain very limited notes and highlighting. 3.35.
Publicado por Thames and Hudson, 1998
ISBN 10: 0911517650 ISBN 13: 9780911517651
Librería: Book Deals, Tucson, AZ, Estados Unidos de America
Condición: USED_GOOD. Good condition. This is the average used book, that has all pages or leaves present, but may include writing. Book may be ex-library with stamps and stickers. 3.35.
Publicado por Thames and Hudson, 1998
ISBN 10: 0911517650 ISBN 13: 9780911517651
Librería: Irish Booksellers, Portland, ME, Estados Unidos de America
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Publicado por Brand: Museum of Art, 1998
ISBN 10: 0911517650 ISBN 13: 9780911517651
Librería: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, Estados Unidos de America
Softcover. Condición: USED_GOOD. n. This publication documenting the RISD's international loan exhibition is the the first in-depth American study of faience, a non-clay ceramic material with a glistening surface of scintillating colors including the vibrant blue of the Egyptian sky. Five essays and individual object entries by top scholars in the field illuminate the subject. "Gifts of the Nile" features more than two hundred small-scale masterpieces spanning three thousand years of ancient Egyptian history.
Publicado por Thames & Hudson, 2005
ISBN 10: 0500237549 ISBN 13: 9780500237540
Librería: Wizard Books, Long Beach, CA, Estados Unidos de America
Hardcover. Condición: USED_VERYGOOD. Used.
Publicado por Thames Hudson, 2005
ISBN 10: 0500237549 ISBN 13: 9780500237540
Librería: Books of the Smoky Mountains, Del Rio, TN, Estados Unidos de America
Condición: USED_VERYGOOD. Gently used book with ongoing seller support until you're fully satisfied with your purchase.
Publicado por Thames and Hudson / Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, 1998
ISBN 10: 0911517650 ISBN 13: 9780911517651
Librería: J. HOOD, BOOKSELLERS, ABAA/ILAB, Baldwin City, KS, Estados Unidos de America
Paperback. Condición: UNSPECIFIED. Size: 9"x12", 288pp., richly illustrated in colour. Near new condition, covers bright, text clean & binding tight.
Publicado por Thames & Hudson, 2005
ISBN 10: 0500237549 ISBN 13: 9780500237540
Librería: GoldBooks, Denver, CO, Estados Unidos de America
Hardcover. Condición: USED_VERYGOOD. Very Good Copy. Customer Service Guaranteed.
Publicado por Thames and Hudson, 1998
ISBN 10: 0911517650 ISBN 13: 9780911517651
Librería: Midtown Scholar Bookstore, Harrisburg, PA, Estados Unidos de America
paperback. Condición: USED_VERYGOOD. Very Good paperback with light shelfwear - NICE! Oversized.
Publicado por London Thames and Hudson, 1998
Librería: Jeff Jeremias Fine Arts, RMABA, Aurora, CO, Estados Unidos de America
Miembro de asociación: RMABA
Original o primera edición
Hardcover. Condición: USED_VERYGOOD. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition. 288 pages. Profusely illustrated. Part of top 1/2 inch of top of spine has been chewed, else very good condition in very good dust jacket that has that part of spine chewed. (L6).
Publicado por Brand: Museum of Art, 1998
ISBN 10: 0911517650 ISBN 13: 9780911517651
Librería: Books of the Smoky Mountains, Del Rio, TN, Estados Unidos de America
Condición: USED_VERYGOOD. Gently used book with ongoing seller support until you're fully satisfied with your purchase.
Publicado por Thames and Hudson, New York, New York, 1998
ISBN 10: 0911517650 ISBN 13: 9780911517651
Librería: Mullen Books, ABAA, Marietta, PA, Estados Unidos de America
Hardcover. Condición: UNSPECIFIED. Black cloth, black DJ with color illus. 288 pp. 483 illustrations, with 224 in color. In English. Published on the occasion of the exhibition of the same name held at the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio, May 19, 1998-July 5, 1998; and two other locations/times. Colorless when it entered the kiln, the ceramic material known as Egyptian faience was transformed by firing into the sparkling blue of the Egyptian sky ad a wide range of other scintillating colors. Imbued by the ancient Egyptians with great symbolic significance - resplendent with radiance and filled with the shimmer of celestial light, it was the perfect metaphor for life, rebirth and immortality. Over two hundred beautiful faience objects from collections in Europe and the U.S. are reproduced in lavish color with a detailed description of each, along with a technical glossary, extensive bibliography, maps and chronological table. Five essays by top scholars in the field illuminate the subject. NF/VG, lovely copy, jacket shows some rubbing and very slight edge wear.
Publicado por Thames & Hudson, New York, NY, 1998
Librería: Motte & Bailey, Booksellers, Ann Arbor, MI, Estados Unidos de America
Miembro de asociación: IOBA
Original o primera edición
Hardcover. Condición: USED_VERYGOOD. Estado de la sobrecubierta: very good. First edition. Tall quarto (over size). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards and dust jacket. 288 p. w/chronology, 480+ illus with over 200 in color, maps, appendix, glossary, bibliography, concordance, index. A lovely book, being the first intrepretive study of this important Egyptian ceramic from Egyptian Late Pre-dyantic thru Roman times.
Publicado por Thames and Hudson, 1998
ISBN 10: 0911517650 ISBN 13: 9780911517651
Librería: WorldofBooks, Goring-By-Sea, WS, Reino Unido
Paperback. Condición: USED_VERYGOOD. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
Publicado por Thames & Hudson, 1998
ISBN 10: 0500237549 ISBN 13: 9780500237540
Librería: The Recycled Book Company, Scarborough, Reino Unido
Hardcover. Condición: USED_ASNEW. Estado de la sobrecubierta: As New. very nice copy.
Publicado por Thames and Hudson, New York, 1998
ISBN 10: 0911517650 ISBN 13: 9780911517651
Librería: BIBLIOPE by Calvello Books, Oakland, CA, Estados Unidos de America
Paperback. Condición: USED_FINE. Folio in color illusglossy wraps; 288 pages: illustrations (many color), maps; 32 cm; bibliographical references (pages 268-281) and index. "This is the first publication to analyse fully the significance of faience in ancient Egypt, and to present the most marvellous examples of its creation. The editor shows how faience was used and produced, as well as its symbolic values." -Publisher. Contents: Faience: the brilliance of eternity / Florence Dunn Friedman -- Symbols and meanings / Robert Steven Bianchi -- By necessity or design: Faience use in ancient Egypt / Diana Craig Patch -- Nubian faience / Peter Lacovara -- Materials and technology / Paul T. Nicholson -- The plates: Early faience -- Faience and the royal life -- Women's use and female-related themes -- Faience in daily life and devotion -- Funerary uses of faience -- Materials and technology -- Notes on the plates. Faience -- Egypt. Antiquities. Faience. Majolica. Kunstvoorwerpen. Faience -- Egypt. Exhibition catalogues. Geographic: Egypt -- Antiquities. Egypt. Egypt -- Antiquities. Published on the occasion of the exhibition of the same name held at the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio, May 19, 1998-July 5, 1998; Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, R.I., Aug. 24, 1998-Jan. 3, 1999; Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, Tex., Jan. 31, 1999-Apr. 25, 1999. ** Weighs 3 lbs 7 oz. Extra shipping charges may apply for international & expedited orders. Please inquire.**. Wee bit of sunning to top front edge; esle fine and apparently unread. Nearly as new.
Condición: UNSPECIFIED. New York 1998, 2878 pp., plates, photos and ill., dust jacket e112.
Publicado por Thames and Hudson, London, 1998
Librería: Librairie Archaion, Bruxelles, Belgica
Cartonné. Condición: USED_FINE. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Bon. 288 p., 200 fig. n/b + nbr. fig. coul. Inv. Th 44.
Publicado por Thames & Hudson, 1998
ISBN 10: 0911517650 ISBN 13: 9780911517651
Librería: HALCYON BOOKS, LONDON, Reino Unido
paperback. Condición: USED_VERYGOOD. ALL ITEMS ARE DISPATCHED FROM THE UK WITHIN 48 HOURS ( BOOKS ORDERED OVER THE WEEKEND DISPATCHED ON MONDAY) ALL OVERSEAS ORDERS SENT BY TRACKABLE AIR MAIL. IF YOU ARE LOCATED OUTSIDE THE UK PLEASE ASK US FOR A POSTAGE QUOTE FOR MULTI VOLUME SETS BEFORE ORDERING.
Publicado por Thames Hudson, 2005
ISBN 10: 0500237549 ISBN 13: 9780500237540
Librería: Hafa Adai Books, Plainfield, IL, Estados Unidos de America
Condición: USED_VERYGOOD.
Publicado por [London] : Thames and Hudson in association with the Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, 1998
ISBN 10: 0911517650 ISBN 13: 9780911517651
Librería: MW Books, New York, NY, Estados Unidos de America
Original o primera edición
Condición: UNSPECIFIED. First Edition. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description; 288 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 32 cm. Subjects; Ancient Egyptian ceramics. Faience Exhibitions U.S.A. Faience Africa Egypt Exhibitions. Egyptology. Stoneware Egypt. Egypt Antiquities. 1 Kg.