Gouthière’s Candelabras: Edmund de Waal and Charlotte Vignon Gavin Brown a madness of love and

a madness of love and excitement

edited by Katy Siegel

angular lines of her body hint at a darker emotional reality

Providence

to serve as an ice basin for keeping an open sake bottle cold

Gouthière’s Candelabras: Edmund de Waal and Charlotte Vignon Gavin Brown a madness of love andGouthires Candelabras is the third volume in the Frick Diptych Series, which offers fresh insight into a single work from the museums collection by pairing an essay written by a Frick curator with a contribution from a contemporary artist or writer. This book focuses on a pair of white vases with gilt bronze mounts made by Pierre Gouthire, a celebrated eighteenth century French chaser and gilder. Curator Charlotte Vignon contextualizes Gouthires