The new book Four Centuries of Blue & White The Frelinghuysen Collection of Chinese and Japanese Export Porcelain by Becky MacGuire.
It is described as “the first major publication to consider Chinese and Japanese blue and white together”.
Four Centuries of Blue & White The Frelinghuysen Collection of Chinese and Japanese Export Porcelain illustrates and discusses more than 300 pieces from the collection and is published by Ad Ilissvm. Peter HB Frelinghuysen Jr, a former congressman from a prominent New Jersey political family, was an avid collector of Chinese export porcelain.
Fiery tale
The new book by Christopher Joll and Penny Cobham, Bonfire of History The lost treasures, trophies & trivia of Madame Tussaud & Sons.
Christopher Joll, regimental historian of the Household Cavalry and adviser on militaria to auction houses Cheffins and Sworders, and Penny Cobham, trustee of the British Napoléonic Bicentenary Trust and the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, have written a book about the fire that destroyed Madame Tussaud’s in 1925.
According to Joll, the book “ascribes a current day value to the losses, exposes some fakes and corrects some myths”.
Bonfire of History The lost treasures, trophies & trivia of Madame Tussaud & Sons is out in November, published by Nine Elms Books.
