The Fogg Art Museum’s silver collection is one of the most significant in America and includes objects that range from Elizabethan cups to works by such celebrated artists as Paul de Lamerie. This elegant book features over three hundred pieces from the collection––many previously unpublished––that together offer a survey of silverware across three centuries. Each object is beautifully reproduced as well as all marks––some of which are newly identified. Fascinating texts analyze and describe the collection and examine the changing tastes of silver collectors in 20th-century New England, painting a vivid portrait of collecting decorative arts in America. The contributions foreign craftsmen made to silver produced in London in the 17th and 18th centuries are also discussed, providing new information on the silversmithing trade of the time.

British and Irish Silver in the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University Art Museums

Arts & Photography

Hartop, Christopher

History & Criticism

Harvard Art Museums

Celebrating the stunning beauty of English silver crafted over three centuries, A Noble Feast offers unique insight into the developments that took place in eating and drinking habits in Stuart, Hanoverian, and Victorian England. Foreign influences, not only from France, Spain, and Italy but also from the New World, figure prominently in the customs of the tabletop during this period of English history. Drawing on colorful details from menus, cookery books, and anecdotes about the owners of these magnificent silver tablewares, Christopher Hartop shows how the silver reflects burgeoning prosperity in Restoration London and global expansion of the British Empire in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
Through examples taken from the Gans Collection―one of the leading silver collections in the United States―Hartop documents the confidence in artistic endeavor as well as in trade and industry that typified the age. With works by such celebrated masters as Paul de Lamerie, Paul Storr, Robert Garrard, and Rundell, Bridge &amp; Rundell, the collection offers a veritable feast of silver splendor, here highlighted by lush color illustrations and an updated catalogue.

A Noble Feast: English Silver from the Jerome and Rita Gans Collection at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (Volume 1)

Virginia Museum of Fine Arts

In 1997 Rita Gans generously gave the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts an outstanding array of English silver from the collection she and her late husband, Jerome, had amassed over some thirty years. Thanks to the munificent gift in 2010 of more stunning silver collected by her during the past thirteen years, the museum is home to one of the most important collections of English silver in the United States. Using examples from the Gans Collection, this book looks closely at the time-honored pursuit of the beautiful and rare in silver and charts the rise of antique silver collecting in Europe and America during the past three centuries. Many motives lie behind silver collecting, but more than an object’s beauty, scarcity, provenance, or historical significance, the main driving force is frequently the thrill of the chase.
 Copublished by the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts and John Adamson
 Distributed for the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts

A Noble Pursuit: English Silver from the Rita Gans Collection at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (Volume 2)

Collections, Catalogs & Exhibitions

The Huguenot Legacy: English Silver 1680-1760

History

Europe

Alan & Simone Hartman--Rare Art Inc.

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Antiques & Collectibles

The partnership of Philip Rundell and John Bridge began in London toward the end of the eighteenth century and went on to become the greatest firm of goldsmiths, jewelers and medalists of the age. Its stable of distinguished artists, headed by the sculptor John Flaxman, was the driving force in the adoption of a new imperial style

Royal Goldsmiths: The Art of Rundell & Bridge 1797-1843

Business & Money

Economics

John Adamson Dist A/C

Using an important collection, the author charts the use of geometric shapes in English silver, as well as Asian influences, during two centuries, 1630-1830.

Geometry and the Silversmith: The Domcha Collection

Sir Robert Walpole's collection of Old Masters, and the building and furnishing of Houghton, the great Palladian house he built in Norfolk, have been the focus of extensive study in recent years, but his silver has not received the same attention. However, the discovery of inventories in the National Archives has allowed a picture to be built up of the sheer scale of Walpole's silver holdings, which were, like everything else about the man, larger than life. What silver that survives includes some of the most celebrated pieces of Georgian silver, such as the square seal salver made by Paul de Lamerie and engraved by William Hogarth. Walpole probably had more silver than any of his contemporaries with the exception of the king, and the scale of his entertaining at court, in Downing Street and at Houghton was gargantuan. Contents:Chronology of Sir Robert Walpole's lifeSir Robert Walpole's SilverAppendices (including plate in the Strawberry Hill sale, 1842)

Sir Robert Walpole's Silver: Special issue of Silver Studies, no. 30

Norfolk Summer presents the story about the making of a film starring Julie Christie and Alan Bates Joseph Losey's award-winning movie The Go-Between was filmed entirely on location in Norfolk in 1970. The film charts the tragic story of a young boy's loss of innocence during a hot summer and stars Julie Christie and Alan Bates as a pair of lovers crossing class boundaries in late Victorian England. The production brought together the playwright Harold Pinter, who adapted L.P. Hartley's elegant novel for the screen, the acclaimed director Joseph Losey and a cast of international stars for ten weeks' filming in and around Melton Constable Hall in north Norfolk - a time of happy creativity, some tension and a good deal of comedy. But the idyllic summer only came about after years of bitter battling over the rights of the book, and it was to be followed by yet more intrigue and high drama, which culminated in the film's triumph at the 1971 Cannes Film Festival, where it won the prestigious Palme d'Or.

Norfolk Summer: Making The Go-Between

Humor & Entertainment

Movies

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<li>The first book on Paul Storr for more than fifty years</li>
<li>Bicentenary of the Battle of Waterloo, so Regency period in the news</li>
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Paul Storr (1770-1844), acknowledged to be the greatest silversmith of the Regency period, holds a special place in the history of English silver. The workshops he directed, first for the Royal Goldsmiths Rundell, Bridge &amp; Rundell, and later on his own account, wrought some of the greatest silver of the first half of the nineteenth century. The designs were provided by well-known Regency names such as John Flaxman, William Theed, Edward Hodges Baily, and Thomas Stothard. Storr numbered among his clients not only British royalty and aristocracy, but continental European nobility and prominent Americans. The year 2015 marks the bicentennial of the Battle of Waterloo, which saw Britain emerge as the dominant power in Europe. Military campaigns on land and sea, a more international outlook, newly fashionable foods, changes in table settings, and above all the creation of great wealth for Britain resulted in a revolution in silverware.

Art in Industry: The Silver of Paul Storr

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British and Irish Silver in the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University Art Museums

A Noble Feast: English Silver from the Jerome and Rita Gans Collection at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (Volume 1)

A Noble Pursuit: English Silver from the Rita Gans Collection at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (Volume 2)

The Huguenot Legacy: English Silver 1680-1760

The Huguenot Legacy: English Silver 1680-1760

Royal Goldsmiths: The Art of Rundell & Bridge 1797-1843

Geometry and the Silversmith: The Domcha Collection

Sir Robert Walpole's Silver: Special issue of Silver Studies, no. 30

Norfolk Summer: Making The Go-Between

Art in Industry: The Silver of Paul Storr