Ada de Wit

A fresh focus on Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier, the genius goldsmith, designer, and radical forerunner of Rococo style, and his most iconic work A silver tureen in the collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art, designed in the 1730s by Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier (1695-1750) for Evelyn Pierrepont, Duke of Kingston-upon-Hull, epitomizes Rococo style for its movement, asymmetric design, organic unity of form and...