Author: Timothy B. Schroder

Publisher/Date: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1988, Retail at time of publication: $125.00

Format/Condition:NEW huge black cloth hardcover with dus tjacket in fine condition. Gilt lettering on spine and cover, 688 pages

Description: The Gilbert Collection is unique in its range and quality. It is to honor this collection that the museum has undertaken to publish this catalogue, which documents the scope of the collection and the Gilbert’s devotion to it.

The Gilbert Collection is comprised of British, Continental European, American and Indian works from the late 15th to the 19th century. Within this broad span the main concentrations of the collection are English and Continental goldsmith’s work of the mid-sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries and English mid-eighteenth and early Nineteenth-century silver and silver-gilt. Cost

Each piece includes a complete description including construction, the maker’s marks, including detailed photos of the marks, and the provenance of the piece.