Hengl, Jacqueline and Veronica Hustinx

Glazed-Tile Panels in the 20th Century Scenes of Portuguese Life

(n.p.) Caixa Geral De Depositos 1987, First Edition. 4to. Illustrated throughout with photographic illustrations, primarily in color. Gilt-lettered blue cloth. A very fine copy with pictorial dust jacket. Text in Portuguese, French, and English. A fabulous history of Portuguese glazed tile panels. Covers glazed tile over the centuries; the production of tiles from workshop to the factory; an overview of the glazed-tile painters from the 16th to the 20th centuries; tiles used in railway stations, covered markets, shops, hotels, and private homes; tiles showing landscapes, monuments, rural life and its customes, and industrial life, and much, much more. Includes a bibliography.

• USD 90.00 > other currencies
• ordernr.: 1015

• bookseller: Argonaut Book Shop (USA)