A La Cour Du Grand Mogol by Joachim Menzhausen; Klaus G. Beyer [Photographer] - 1965-01-01

Edition Leipzig, 1965-01-01. Hardcover. Good. Edition Leipzig [Published Date: 1965]. Hardcover, [142] pp. Text in French. Translated from the original in German by Raymond and Monique Goffinet. Includes 47 pages of text with 11 tipped-in black and white illustrations and maps, followed by 95 pages of color illustrations showing the details of the work along with explanatory notes. Good in good dust jacket. Green cloth covered boards with gold lettering on front and spine. Light scuffing and fading to edges of covers. Binding tight. Previous owner's name stamped in red ink on front free end paper and rear paste down. Otherwise pages are lightly aged but clean and unmarked. Dust jacket has few 1' or less nicks and tears along edges and several small chips to the paper over the top and bottom spine. light overall scuffing, aging and soiling to jacket as well. Now in an archival-quality (removable) Brodart Cover. NOT Ex-Library. NO remainder marks. The "Grand Mogul's Throne", as contemporary sources called it, is a chef d'oeuvre of European Baroque goldsmith art. Its overall design is the first extensive document of Chinoiserie in Germany. His combination of fashionable interlacing with Far Eastern elements that can easily be applied to organize the surface of objects, Dinglinger helped forge the style of the Dresden Baroque. Between 1701 and 1708, Johann Melchior Dinglinger constructed the palace along with his brothers, the enamel artist Georg Friedrich (1666-1720) and the gold worker Georg Christoph (1668-1746).