Full Description
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.
Contents
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
