11-706: The Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Collection is a collection of objets d'art formed by the English -born businessman Sir Arthur Gilbert , who made most of his fortune in the property business in California . After initially becoming interested in silver, he assembled a large collection of decorative arts, which he gave the British nation in 1996. It now has a permanent home in the Victoria and Albert Museum in London . The V&A describes
22-530: A higher standard of refined manufacture and finish; the classification usually excludes objects made for realising a practical function. As works of art, objets de vertu reflect the rarified aesthetic and conspicuous consumption characteristic of an aristocratic court — of the late-medieval Burgundian dukes , the Mughal emperors , or Ming China — such as the Lycurgus Cup , which is a cage cup made of Roman glass ;
33-520: A light firing to melt them and fuse them to the glass surface. Secondly it refers to stained glass , used for windows. Here the design is made up using sheets of coloured glass, cut to shape and held in place by lead. The painting is the final stage, typically only in black. The paint is usually not fused to the flat glass by firing, but if it is, it is still called "stained glass". Glass painting or glass painter might refer to either technique, but more usually enamelled glass. It may also refer to
44-524: The Byzantine agate "Rubens vase"; the Roman glass " Portland Vase ", and onyx and chalcedony cameo carvings , whilst the pre–World War I production of objets d'art featured Fabergé eggs made of precious metals and decorated with gemstones . A comparable term that appears in 18th- and 19th-century French sale catalogs, though now less used, is objets de curiosité , "objects of curiosity", now devolved into
55-756: The Gilbert Collection" by the Gilbert Collection Trust in June 2001. The exhibition was fitted out under the supervision of the silver expert Timothy Schroder, and it continued until 27 January 2008. The space then became the Embankment Galleries, an exhibition space for contemporary art. Meanwhile, the collection was incorporated into the Victoria and Albert Museum, where a new display in rooms 70–73 opened on 30 June 2009. In early 2011, fifty objects from
66-459: The collection to his native country, after a dispute with LACMA regarding the collection's placement and display. In 2000, it went on public display as "The Gilbert Collection" in a suite of seventeen galleries at Somerset House in London, the audio guide narrated by the actor Tony Clarkin . Formerly Private Curator to the Gilbert Collection, Jeanette Hanisee Gabriel was appointed "Honorary Curator of
77-457: The collection were returned, by the provisions of a long-term loan, to LACMA. 51°29′48″N 0°10′19″W / 51.49667°N 0.17194°W / 51.49667; -0.17194 Objets d%27art In art history , the French term objet d'art ( / ˌ ɒ b ʒ eɪ ˈ d ɑːr / ; French pronunciation: [ɔbʒɛ daʁ] ) describes an ornamental work of art , and
88-741: The less-valued curio . Elaborate late Renaissance display pieces in silver that incorporate organic elements such as ostrich eggs , nuts of the coco de mer and sea-shells are grouped in a volume, published in 1991, as "The Curiousities" in the catalogues of the Waddesdon Bequest at the British Museum . Glass painting Painted glass refers to two different techniques of decorating glass, both more precisely known by other terms. Firstly, and more correctly, it means enamelled glass , normally relatively small vessels which have been painted with preparations of vitreous enamel , and then fixed by
99-486: The objects as: "many in precious materials, and often on a small scale. It is famous for European and British masterpieces including gold and silver, gold boxes , painted enamels and mosaics", these last mostly micromosaics . For decades, the collection was on display at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), and Gilbert had promised eventually to make it a permanent gift. However, he decided to give
110-509: The scope of the Museum’s ceramic, plate, textiles and glass collections." The artwork collection also includes metal curtain ties, a lacquered papier-maché tray, tobacco boxes, cigarette cases , découpage (cut-paper items), portrait miniatures , a gilt-brass clock finial, plaques, statuettes, plaquettes, a horse brass , a metal pipe tamper, a small glass painting , et cetera. The objet de vertu , wherein vertu suggests rich materials and
121-750: The term objets d’art describes a range of works of art, usually small and three-dimensional, made of high-quality materials, and a finely-rendered finish that emphasises the aesthetics of the artefact. Artists create and produce objets d’art in the fields of the decorative arts and metalwork , porcelain and vitreous enamel ; figurines , plaquettes , and engraved gems ; ivory carvings and semi-precious hardstone carvings ; tapestries , antiques , and antiquities ; and books with fine bookbinding . The National Maritime Museum , Greenwich , London, describes their accumulated artworks as a: "collection of objets d’art [which] comprises over 800 objects. These are mostly small, decorative art items that fall outside
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