Geoffrey de Bellaigue (Author)
ISBN 978 1 905686 10 0
Hardback, 3 volumes, 432 pages (per volume), 32.5 x 24.8cm (13" x 10"), 2400 illustrations, 1000 specially commissioned drawings of incised marks
Full scholarly apparatus, bibliography and index.
For the past 18 years, every December, Apollo has given awards recognising outstanding achievements in the world of international arts. These awards provide an opportunity to revisit the highlights of the past year, from museum openings to new publications, and never fail to provoke strong debate. Royal Collection Publications is proud to announce that Sir Geoffrey de Bellaigue's three-volume catalogue raisonné French Porcelain in the Collection of Her Majesty The Queen has won the 2010 Apollo Book of the Year award.
The Royal Collection contains one of the finest groups of eighteenth-century Sèvres porcelain in the world. Its importance has long been recognised, but it is only with the publication of Sir Geoffrey de Bellaigue's monumental three-volume catalogue raisonné that its richness, variety and range can be fully appreciated.
The three volumes cover all the French porcelain in the Collection made at Sèvres and in the Paris factories before 1830, although the chief emphasis is on the King's acquisition of outstanding pieces of eighteenth-century Sèvres porcelain.
Sir Geoffrey de Bellaigue was Director of the Royal Collection and Surveyor of The Queen's Works of Art until 1996. A former Trustee of the Wallace Collection and Honorary President of the French Porcelain Society from 1985 to 1999, he is regarded as one the world's leading authorities on Sèvres porcelain and has published extensively on the decorative arts in the Royal Collection.
