Download or read book The Plate of the Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths written by John Bodman Carrington and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A catalogue of the Company's collection.
Download or read book the london goldsmiths written by Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1935 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Catalogue of British and American Book Plates Bequeathed to the Trustees of the British Museum by Sir Augustus Wollaston Franks written by British Museum. Department of Prints and Drawings and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Parliamentary Debates official Report s written by Great Britain. Parliament and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 896 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Silver in England written by Philippa Glanville and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-11-05 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 2005. Silver is unique among the decorative arts in that its raw material is both inherently valuable and infinitely reusable. Its ownership has been a social bench-mark and its form has exercised the skills of sculptors, designers, chasers and engravers, but ultimately it could be, and normally was, melted down and refashioned quite without sentiment. Because of this constant recycling, the survival of any individual object is quite random and unrelated to its uniqueness or otherwise in its period. Hitherto plate historians have focused on individual objects almost to the exclusion of the context - social or economic - from which they came but now that context is seen as crucial in understanding historic plate. So in the first section of this book each chapter considers contemporary attitudes and usage.
Download or read book English Irish Scottish Silver at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute written by Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute and published by Hudson Hills. This book was released on 1997 with total page 606 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this stunning catalog, Wees, curator of decorative arts at the Clark Art Institute, shares her extensive knowledge of silver. Robert Sterling Clark, who established the Art Institute in 1955, preferred Huguenot silver? especially that of Paul de Lamerie? so his collection, which contains typical objects from the early 16th to the mid-20th centuries, is especially rich in 18th-century examples. Wees arranges this collection according to general function ("Dining," "Lighting," etc.) and prefaces each chapter with exhaustively footnoted essays. She accompanies each item with crisp black-and-white photographs, a wealth of description, and helpful commentary. Analogous to Kathryn Buhler's standard catalog of American silver in Boston's Museum of Fine Arts, this is a wonderful tool for researching makers and hallmarks, comparing stylistic elements, or just marveling at the beauty of an extraordinary collection. While not intended to be a historical compendium, this informative, visual feast belongs in all silver reference collections and will also certainly appeal to individual collectors. 19 colour & 1,222 b/w illustrations
Download or read book Britannia Muscovy written by Brian Allen and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Accompanying an exhibition of English silver in the Moscow Kremlin Museums, where sixteenth- and seventeenth-century silver is housed. The silver items - a large water pot with snake-shaped flagon shaped like a leopard, and more - exemplify the developing ties between England and Russia.
Download or read book The Winterthur Museum Libraries Collection of Printed Books and Periodicals General catalog written by Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum. Libraries and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 606 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Mint written by John Craig and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-10-27 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this 1953 book the story of the London Mint is told by the former Deputy Master and Comptroller of the Royal Mint.
Download or read book The Connoisseur written by and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Franks Bequest written by British Museum. Dept. of Prints and Drawings and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Collector s Dictionary of the Silver and Gold of Great Britain and North America written by Michael Clayton and published by ACC Distribution. This book was released on 1985 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Marvel to Behold written by Timothy Schroder and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2020 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Henry VIII amassed the most spectacular collection of gold and silver of any British monarch. Plate and jewels were hugely prominent in medieval and Renaissance courts and played an essential role in dynastic marriages and diplomacy as well as in cementing the bonds between king and court. Ranging from plain domestic wares to extraordinary bejewelled works of art, Henry's collection embraced virtuoso continental objects as well as vast quantities of plate commissioned from London goldsmiths or inherited from his father. But nearly all of these holdings were destroyed over the following century, and of the thousands that he owned no more than a handful have survived to modern times. This book makes use of the wealth of surviving documentation - inventories, drawings, lists of payments, dispatches by foreign ambassadors and other records - to explore this lost collection and the light it sheds on the monarchy. Starting with an assessment of the young king's inheritance from his father, the book considers the role of plate at state banquets, in great church services and in the regular exchange of gifts between courtiers and ambassadors; the role of plate and jewels as a potent symbol of power; how the king used confiscation as an instrument of humiliation of those who fell from grace, including Cardinal Wolsey and Katherine of Aragon; and how Henry's avaricious seizure of church plate towards the end of his life throws light on his changing character. While the focus is on plate and goldsmiths' work, the context ranges from court ceremonial to rivalry between princes, the role of the church, the vulnerability of persons and institutions with covetable assets, and relations between the king and his own family. Bringing the existence and significance of these lost riches back to life, the book sheds new light on Henrician and Tudor court culture.
Download or read book Historical reminiscences of the city of London and its livery companies written by Thomas Arundell and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2020-09-10 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1869.
Download or read book Huguenots in Britain and France written by I. Scouloudi and published by Springer. This book was released on 1987-06-18 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Catalogue of the Works exhibited in the British Section of the Exhibition etc Catalogue des objets expos s dans la Section britannique Eng Fr written by Exposition Universelle de 1855 (PARIS). Great Britain and published by . This book was released on 1855 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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