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A BAIXELA de Sua Majestade Fidelíssima: Uma Obra de François Thomas Germain. Lisboa. 2002. - A BAIXELA de Sua Majestade Fidelíssima: Uma Obra de François Thomas Germain . Direcção e coordenação de Isabel da Silveira Godinho. Textos de Bárbara Girão Ribeiro, Christiane Perrin, Cristina Neiva Correia, Eduardo Vera-Cruz Pinto, Inês Líbano Monteiro, Maria do Rosário Jardim, Sílvia Alves e Teresa Maranhas. Fotografia da Baixela Germain de António Homem Cardoso. Lisboa: Instituto Português do Património Arquitectónico / Palácio Nacional da Ajuda, 2002. 400 pp.: il.; 265 mm. This monographic study examines the Germain Silver Service, the most important set of civil silverware in the Ajuda National Palace and one of the great works of European goldsmithing of the 18th century. The service was commissioned by King José I from the Parisian workshop of François-Thomas Germain, in the Louvre Galleries, in 1756, shortly after the Lisbon earthquake, with the aim of restoring the splendor of the royal court. In 1765, Germain declared bankruptcy, leaving the commission unfinished and triggering a long legal dispute. The set consists of more than a thousand pieces of cast, repoussé, engraved, and chased silver, and constitutes the first silver service of the Portuguese crown. The work, of remarkable graphic execution, includes photographs by António Homem Cardoso and texts by various specialists on the history, technique, and context of the commission. ⚑ Auto-translated via Google Translate