Decorative Arts: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue of the Collections of the J. Paul Getty Museum

London; Ruth Blumka, New York; and Sheri

Bernstein, Amy Lyford, Ken Wayne, Maria de

Peverelli, Francesca Bewer, Anna Zagorsky,

and Anne Collopy, all former interns in the

Department of European Sculpture and Works

of Art, J. Paul Getty Museum.

We also wish to acknowledge the

contributions of the following: Antoine

d'Albis, Manufacture Nationale de Sévres;

Daniel Alcouffe, the Musée du Louvre,

Paris; Catherine Arminjon, the Ministére

de la Culture, France; Rotraud Bauer, the

Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna; Christian

Baulez, Chateau de Versailles; Leslie Bowman,

the Los Angeles County Museum of Art;

Frances Buckland, London; Martin Chapman,

the Los Angeles County Museum of Art;

Andrew Ciechanowiecki, London; Timothy

Clarke, Kent; Howard Coutts, the Bowes

Museum, County Durham; Christian Witt-

Döring, Österreichishes Museum für ange­

wandte Kunst, Vienna; Winthrop Edey,

New York; Pierre Ennés, the Musée du Louvre,

Paris; Svend Eriksen, Copenhagen; Ronald

Freyberger, New York; Peter Frieß, Munich;

Carolyn Gay Nieda Gassmann, Paris; Alvar

Gonzáles-Palacios, Rome; Burckhardt Göres,

the Kunstgewerbemuseum Schloß Köpenick,

Berlin; Michael Hall, London; John Hardy,

London; Leslie Harris, Kedleston Hall,

Derbyshire; Henry Hawley, the Cleveland

Museum of Art; Peter Hughes, the Wallace

Collection, London; Anne Ratzki-Kraatz,

Paris; Guy Kurasewski, Chateau de Versailles;

Ulrich Leben, Paris; Claire Le Corbeiller, the

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York;

Roland de L'Espée, Paris; Jessie McNab, the

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York;

Bozenna Majewska-Maszkowska, the Royal

Castle, Warsaw; the late Stanley Margolis, the

University of California, Davis; Sarah Medlam,

the Victoria and Albert Museum, London;

Daniel Meyer, Chateau de Versailles; Jeffrey

Munger, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston;

Maria Leonor d'Orey, Museu Nacional de Arte

Antiga, Lisbon; Bill Pallot, Paris; James Parker,

the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York;

Tamara Préaud, Manufacture Nationale de

Sévres; Peter Pröschel, Munich; Carolyn J.

Sargentson, the Victoria and Albert Museum,

London; Beatrix Saule, Chateau de Versailles;

Anna Somers-Cocks, London; Edith Standen,

the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York;

and the late Sir Francis Watson, formerly

Director of the Wallace Collection and

Surveyor of the Queens Works of Art,

England. We are most grateful to Theodore

Dell, who kindly reviewed and corrected the

manuscript, to Timothy Husband, for permis­

sion to use his manuscript for a forthcoming

catalogue of the Museum's glass collection; to

Leslie Thomas Fitch, for her fine design; and

to our patient editor and indexer, Mollie

Holtman.

Gillian Wilson

Curator

Department of Decorative Arts

Peter Fusco

Curator

Department of European Sculpture

and Works of Art

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