TY - BOOK AU - Wolfe,Julie AU - Heginbotham,Arlen AU - Chasen,Jessica AU - Bremer-David,Charissa ED - Project Muse. TI - French Silver in the J. Paul Getty Museum / SN - 9781606068298 PY - 2023/// CY - Los Angeles PB - J. Paul Getty Museum KW - J. Paul Getty Museum KW - fast KW - Catalogs KW - Silverwork KW - ART / General KW - bisacsh KW - California KW - Los Angeles KW - France KW - Paris KW - History KW - 17th century KW - 18th century KW - Catalogues de collection KW - rvmgf KW - Collection catalogs KW - lcgft KW - Electronic books. KW - local N1 - Introduction: J. Paul Getty as a Silver Collector and the Formation of the Museum's French Silver Collection -- Note to the Reader I: Stamps and Marks -- Note to the Reader II: Historic Units of Measure and Currency -- Catalogue -- Water Fountain (Fontaine), transformed from a Water Flagon (Buire) -- Lidded Bowl (Écuelle couverte) -- Pair of Tureens, Liners, and Stands (Paire de terrines, doublures et plateaux) -- Pair of Decorative Bronzes: Sugar Casters in the Form of Cane Field Laborers (Sucriers à poudre en forme d'ouvriers des champs de canne) -- Two Sugar Casters (Deux sucriers à poudre) -- Pair of Lidded Tureens, Liners, and Stands (Paire de pots à oille couvertes, doublures et plateaux) -- Tray for Lidded Beakers (Gantiere pour gobelets couverts) -- La machine d'argent, or Centerpiece for a Table (Surtout de table) -- Sauceboat on Stand (Sauciere sur support) -- Two Girandoles (Deux girandoles) -- Maker Biographies -- Appendix: Silver Alloy Analysis by X-ray Fluorescence Spectroscopy / Jessica Chasen, Arlen Heginbotham and Julie Wolfe; Open Access N2 - "This illustrated book catalogues the J. Paul Getty Museum's collection of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century French silver"-- UR - https://muse.jhu.edu/book/103901/ ER -