This richly illustrated book of days may be enjoyed in its own right as a sumptuous survey of medieval arts and crafts--painting, enamels, tiles, embroidery, pottery, cooking--or it may be used as a diary, an engagement calendar, or a birthday book. 60 four-color illustrations.

Medieval Crafts: A Book of Days

History

CHERRY, John

Europe

Thames&Hudson

BOOK OF DAYS - MEDIEVAL CRAFT

BRITISH MUSEUM

Of all the medieval craftsmen, the goldsmith worked on the two most valuable materials - gold and silver - and set them with rare stones and classical gems. He produced a wide variety of objects, from cups and chalices to rings, seals, and crowns. Such rich objects were often put to the service of God, and today it is in the treasuries of churches that we find much of the surviving material.Combining documentary, archaeological, and pictorial evidence, the author describes how goldsmiths worked for both the Church and for royalty. By the fifteenth century their trade was centred in the principal ccourts and cities of Europe. John Cherry describes the organization of the craft, including the supply of raw materials, and follows the careers of individual goldsmiths, some of whom rose to high positions in society.

GOLDSMITHS (MEDIEVAL CRAFTSMEN SERIES) /ANGLAIS

Arts & Photography

Made in gold and enamel and decorated with precious stones, the Holy Thorn Reliquary depicts the salvation of mankind through the sacrifice of Christ. It was commissioned around 1400-10 by Jean, duc de Berry, a member of the French royal family, to house a single thorn from the relic of Christ's Crown of Thorns. This well illustrated book explores the history and meaning of this masterpiece and tells the tale of its remarkable survival and eventual passage to the British Museum as part of the Waddesdon bequest.

The Holy Thorn Reliquary (Object in Focus)

Reference

Medieval Goldsmiths

BM Press

Of all the medieval craftsmen, the goldsmith worked on the two most valuable materials - gold and silver - and set them with rare stones and classical gems. He produced a wide variety of objects, from cups and chalices to rings, seals, and crowns. Such rich objects were often put to the service of God, and today it is in the treasuries of churches that we find much of the surviving material.
Combining documentary, archaeological, and pictorial evidence, the author describes how goldsmiths worked for both the Church and for royalty. By the fifteenth century their trade was centred in the principal ccourts and cities of Europe. John Cherry describes the organization of the craft, including the supply of raw materials, and follows the careers of individual goldsmiths, some of whom rose to high positions in society.

Goldsmiths (Medieval Craftsmen)

History & Criticism

University of Toronto Press

. 1994, bright clean copy, no markings, Professional booksellers since 1981

The Middleham jewel and ring

The Yorkshire Museum

Published to accompany the first exhibition on ceramics of the Middle Ages anywhere for more than 50 years, this beautiful publication aims to demystify medieval art by highlighting the beauty and familiarity of ceramic pots and tiles from all over northern Europe, with an emphasis on 13th to early 16th-century England. Among the highlights presented here are three magnificent examples of the English jug, described in 1948 by the great historian of ceramics W.B. Honey in his Foreword to Bernard Rackham’s pioneering book Medieval English Pottery, “quite simply, as the most beautiful pottery ever made in England. Formerly despised for their roughness and lack of superficial refinement, they are now recognized as worthy of comparison for their nobility of form with the early Chinese wares, so much admired today as the finest of all pottery.” The Dartford Knight Jug is an example of the most celebrated of all medieval English pottery, dating to the late 13th century and made in Scarborough in Yorkshire. The Rye ‘Royal Presentation’ Jug, excavated from a kiln site in Rye in the 1930s, having laid there since its creation in the 14th century is a remarkable survival decorated in a curious scene of finely scratched sgraffito figures. And a massive shouldered jug from Kedleston Hall was described when it was discovered in 1862 as “probably the most important and interesting early mediaeval relic of Norman pottery which has ever been exhumed”. Remaining intact in very small numbers – surviving only when retrieved as wasters from the excavated ruins of kilns or if they fell down wells into water – these medieval pots are indeed great works of art. The potter of the Middle Ages had only quite basic technology at his disposal but he used it with extraordinary skill and economy of means. Perhaps more than any other works of ark, they display the evidence of their manufacture: the splaying out of the ends of handles with the thumbprints to give a hold, the bases pressed down like frilled aprons; and wheel marks and ridges dug out with the fingertips. The bodies have beautiful colors from different local clays – red, brown, yellow, ash-grey to almost black, baked to a wide variety of shades in the primitive kilns. The heavy glazes are dipped or splashed on in a restricted range of greens and browns but can be incredibly supple and rich. Since the early 20th century, these wares have been prized not only by collectors of medieval art but also by Modernist artists and designers. This is particularly true in England where, for some reason, so many of the finest pots seem to have originated. This interest was intense at the time but it has become less so in recent decades. And though there has been much important research on archaeological investigation published, there has been little presentation or study on medieval pots as works of art. Informed by all the latest archaeological research, detailed examination of each work by specialist scholar Maureen Mellor is accompanied by exquisite new photography, revealing each remarkable pot and tile in all its glory.

Pots and Tiles of the Middle Ages (Sam Fogg)

Mellor, Maureen

Sculpture

Paul Holberton Publishing

Unavailable for too long, this new edition reprints the original text of Renfrew's groundbreaking study, supplemented with a new introduction by the author and a foreword by John Cherry, in order to make this landmark publication available once again. Table of Contents Foreword by John Cherry Introduction to the 2009 Edition

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