A Merchant of Ivory in 16th-Century Paris: The Estate Inventory of Chicart Bailly

Erscheinungsjahr 2023
ISBN: 978-90-04-53468-1
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 17, 362 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 816 g

Reihe: AVISTA Studies in the History of Medieval Technology, Science, and Art

While we sometimes think about the past as distant and dusty, portals that can shoot through centuries exist. The estate inventory of Chicart Bailly is one of those gateways, and through its many pages we are transported back into an entirely different material culture – Paris at the turn of the 16th century.

Chicart, whose death in June 1533 led to the creation of the document, was part of a legacy of working with ivory, bone, and precious woods as a tabletier. This transcription and annotated translation of the inventory provides a key for new insights into this previously understudied profession -- the objects made, the varied media used, and the world of the Paris’ tabletiers.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Baker, Katherine

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte Kunstgeschichte: Renaissance, Manierismus

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents

Acknowledgements

List of Illustrations

Introduction

Part 1: Text and Context

1.1 The Document: Notaries and Legacies

1.2 The Family: Many Sons and Daughters

1.3 The House: At the Sign of the Elephant

Part 2: A Staggering Supply

2.1 The Objects: From the Opulent to the Ordinary

2.2 Global Goods: Incomplete Items: Raw and Half-Made in the Inventory

2.3 The Means of Making: Tools in the Estate Inventory

2.4 Playtime: Games and Toys

2.5 Holy and Hewn: Religious Objects in the Inventory

2.6 A Beginning at the End

Part 3: Marchandise de TabletterieTranscription — Translation

3.1 The Process Related to the Transcription — Translation

3.2 The Inventory of 1533

3.3 Index of Inventory Merchandise

Appendix 1 — Material Culture in the Professional Spaces

Appendix 2 — Letters and Debts

Appendix 3 — Documents Related to the Inheritance of Chicart Bailly

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Katherine Baker, Ph.D., 2013, University of Virginia, is Associate Professor at the Arkansas State University. Her interests focus on the intersection of text and objects, and how documents can help us understand the things made in the past.