Author: Laue, Georg & Annemarie Jordan-Gschwend & Robert Schmitt & Virginie Spenlé:
Title: Kunstkammer Georg Laue Band IX: Exotica.
Description: 2012, (23 x 28,cm), 300 pp. English / German, Arab and Chinese text, 321 full colour ills., hardbound. ¶ The catalogues of Kunstkammer Georg Laue are desired for their beautiful design and marvelous illustrations and renowed for the subjects and scolarly contribitions by experts. This richly illustrated catalogue of over 100 objects from exotic countries is a forceful reminder of how highly such pieces were regarded by collectors of the sixteenth to eighteenth century. In addition 321 high-quality colour illustrations explain more clearly than any caption or essay, why this should have been so. The sheer elegance and beauty of the majority of collectibles may have been the main incentive; the startling foreign character of some others may have added extra curiosity and conversation value.

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