Zsolnay Art Pottery, The Gyugyi Collection (new, mint condition)

Description

Zsolnay ceramics are recognized as among the finest and most beautiful ceramics in the world. Now you can own a book about one of the most exquisite Zsolnay pottery collections. This hardcover book is both a catalogue and a scholarly guide, makes a great gift for Art Nouveau and decorative art lovers, serves as an excellent guide for collectors and historians, and gives a glimpse into the mind of a top art collector.
Dr. Gyugyi's collection is comprised of over 600 Historicist and Art Nouveau pieces that were originally exhibited to much acclaim at world fairs alongside the masterpieces of Louis Comfort Tiffany and Clément Massier. The collection contains only the highest quality pieces Dr. Gyugyi could find and was assembled from around the world.
The book brings pleasure to experts of the field and admirers of beautiful decorative art alike. It features the history of the Zsolnay factory, expert descriptions of individual objects, a chronological representation of the collection's pieces and the collector Dr. Laszlo Gyugyi's subjective thoughts about his collection, along with superbly reproduced photographs of the vases, platters, pitchers, lamps and ceramic paintings. The world's leading experts in Zsolnay ceramics present their extensive research of the collection in lively historical and aesthetic analyses.