Silver in England
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Alms Dish
Antique Plate
Assay Office
Author_Philippa Glanville
British material culture
Caerphilly Castle
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decorative arts history
English Goldsmiths
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George Booth
George III
George Treby
Gold Cup
hallmarking and assay
historic metalwork analysis
James Street
Lions Passant
Man's Silver
Manchester Art Gallery
Richard III
Robert Amadas
Sauce Boats
silversmithing techniques
Sir George Treby
social status objects
sociology of precious metals
Strawberry Hill
Sugar Box
Superb
Tea Canister
Toilet Service
Wild Man
William III
Young Man
Product details
- ISBN 9780415382151
- Weight: 890g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 03 Nov 2005
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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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.
Philippa Glanville Assistant Keeper, Department of Metalwork, Victoria & Albert Museum
