Piqué : a beautiful minor art

Piqué : a beautiful minor art

Author: Dent, Herbert Crowley, 1860-

Year: 1923

With an introduction by C. Reginald Grundy. With thirty-six plates. Connoisseur series of books for collectors. Piqué seems to have originated and flourished in France in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. "It was an art in which precious materials were employed to adorn other precious materials; in which gold or silver, in point or strip, was inlaid in tortoiseshell or other similar substances, often used in combination with mother-​of-​pearl, as an added decoration."-​-​p. v. "...of all the minor arts of its time, it most perfectly exemplifies the luxuriant spirit of the age..."--p. v. Noted in Gemology by J. Sinkankas, entry no. 1650A. Partial contents: Louis XIV period.--Louis XV period.--Louis XVI period.--First English period (seventeenth century).-​-​Second English period, eighteenth century.--Third English period, nineteenth century.--Piqué in the ivory medium.