Fleming, John, 1919-2001, author.

The Penguin dictionary of decorative arts / John Fleming and Hugh Honour.

New edition.

London, England ; New York, N.Y., USA : Viking, 1989.
©1977

935 pages, 12 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm

"Provides a concise guide to the decorative arts of the West from the Middle Ages to the present day. Though concerned mainly with the furniture and furnishing of the European and North American private house, it also includes accounts of Chinese and Japanese pottery and porcelain, Peruvian pottery and textiles, Islamic metalwork and pottery, Turkish, Persian and other Oriental carpets and much else besides. For this new edition, the authors have completely revised, and partly rewritten, the original text. They have also added over 600 new entries"-- Dust jacket.

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Honour, Hugh, author.

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