Silver in tudor and Early Stuart England - Hardcover

Glanville, Philippa; Victoria And Albert Museum

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1851770305 ISBN 13: 9781851770304

Verlag: V & A Publications, 1990

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Reseña del editor:

The national collection of English silver contains a hundred and fifty objects made between about 1480 and 1660. Here fully cataloged for the first time, they include the famous Howard Grace cup, associated with Thomas a Becket, a rare set of Elizabethan spice plates, mounted porcelain, and the largest group of English salts to survive. Court goldsmiths' work is represented by a pair of snuffers made for the Privy Council of Edward VI and by the astonishing dolphin basin, raised from a single sheet of metal, by Christian van Vianen, goldsmith to Charles I. Scientific analysis has enabled us to distinguish the genuine unaltered Tudor objects from those which have been 'improved' and those which are the product of nineteenth-century historicism. This book will appeal to all who are interested in Tudor and Stuart history and art, as well as to students of social and economic history.

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Based on a scholarly catalogue of the 150 pieces in the Museum that date between 1480 and 1660, this book is a standard work for dealers and serious collectors. The glamour and splendor of silver is recreated from a vast array of contemporary documents and illustrations chosen to illuminate attitudes to the art of the goldsmith and to describe the extraordinary spread of silver at the time. The book was a finalist and specially commended in the national Art Collection's Fund awards for outstanding achievements in the arts.

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• Verlag: V & A Publications
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1990
• ISBN 10: 1851770305
• ISBN 13: 9781851770304
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 528