Objet d'art

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antiques, and antiquities; and books with fine bookbinding

The

Objet de vertu

The objet de vertu, wherein vertu suggests rich materials and a higher standard of refined manufacture and finish; the classification usually excludes objects made for realising a practical function. As works of art, objets de vertu reflect the rarified aesthetic and

Mughal emperors, or Ming China — such as the Lycurgus Cup, which is a cage cup made of Roman glass; the Byzantine agate "Rubens vase"; the Roman glass "Portland Vase", and onyx and chalcedony cameo carvings, whilst the pre–World War I production of objets d'art featured Fabergé eggs made of precious metals and decorated with gemstones

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A comparable term that appears in 18th- and 19th-century French sale catalogs,

coco de mer and sea-shells are grouped in a volume, published in 1991, as "The Curiousities" in the catalogues of the Waddesdon Bequest at the British Museum.^[5]

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An objet de vertu by excellence,
Memory of Azov Egg
" (1891), contains a ship model wrought of gold.
The Rubens Vase, carved in high relief from a single piece of agate, 4th century
In Benvenuto Cellini's "table salt cellar", extravagant invention and richness of materials overwhelm any practical use.
A Swiss singing bird box with a bucolic lake scene on the lid, c. 1825, another example of an objet de vertu

References

^ The New Shorter Oxford English Dictionary (1993) Lesley Brown, Ed. p. 1,965.
^ objets d'art Archived 2012-09-04 at the Wayback Machine, National Maritime Museum
^ Such as the Catalogue raisonné des différens objets de curiosité dans les sciences et arts, qui composoient le cabinet de feu Mr.. Paris, 1775; in 1916 A. Tuete edited the Inventaire des laques anciennes et des objets de curiosité de Marie-Antoinette: confiés à Daguerre et Lignereux, marchands bijoutiers, le 10 octobre 1789.
^ Maurice Rheims' La vie étrange des objets (1959) is subtitled histoire de la curiosité.
^ Tait, Hugh, A Catalogue of the Waddesdon Bequest in the British Museum, several volumes, British Museum. Volumes: I, The Jewels, 1986; II The Silver Plate, 1988; III The Curiosities, 1991.

[1] The New Shorter Oxford English Dictionary (1993) Lesley Brown, Ed. p. 1,965.

[2] ts d'art Archived 2012-09-04 at the Wayback Machine, National Maritime Museum

[3] Such as the Catalogue raisonné des différens objets de curiosité dans les sciences et arts, qui composoient le cabinet de feu Mr.. Paris, 1775; in 1916 A. Tuete edited the Inventaire des laques anciennes et des objets de curiosité de Marie-Antoinette: confiés à Daguerre et Lignereux, marchands bijoutiers, le 10 octobre 1789.

[4] Maurice Rheims' La vie étrange des objets (1959) is subtitled histoire de la curiosité.

[5] Tait, Hugh, A Catalogue of the Waddesdon Bequest in the British Museum, several volumes, British Museum. Volumes: I, The Jewels, 1986; II The Silver Plate, 1988; III The Curiosities, 1991.

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