26 abril 2007 – 12 agosto 2007

Choice of lacquers from the Baur Collection

The collection of lacquerware assembled by Alfred Baur comprises almost eight hundred Japanese lacquers. The collector's choice is tinged with a resolutely modern orientation: with a few rare exceptions, all the lacquers in the collection were executed between the 17th and the early 20th century, some pieces even having been commissioned from artists contemporary with A. Baur. This exhibition presents a choice of large document and writing boxes, delicate inrô (medicine containers) and incense boxes, elegant pipe cases as well as tea caddies. All of these pieces attest of Alfred Baur's taste for perfection of execution and refinement of materials.

dirección

Collections Baur
rue Munier-Romilly 8
1206 Genève
fon +41 22 704 32 82
http://www.collections-baur.ch

horarios

Daily 2 p.m. - 6 p.m., closed on Monday.

descripción del Museo

This private collection, housed in a late 19th-century town house, presents a wide range of exquisite works of art acquired over a period of some 45 years by the Swiss collector, Alfred Baur (1865-1951). The permanent exhibition includes Chinese ceramics, jade and snuffs bottles from the 10th to the 19th centuries, as well as Japanese prints, lacquer, netsuke, and sword fittings from the 17th to the 20th centuries.

en el período de 10 dias
comienzo de exposiciones
finalizacion de exposiciones