Overview
This work is an exhibition catalogue for an exhibition of silver marked by Paul de Lamerie. Accompanying a touring exhibition organized by the Brooks Museum, Memphis, and opening at the Victoria & Albert Museum, London in November 2006, this highly illustrated catalogue showcases highlights from Paul Cahn's collection of magnificent silver bearing the mark of the illustrious Huguenot silversmith, Paul de Lamerie. Other pieces marked by de Lamerie's contemporaries are also featured to show the broader context of his work and to give us a deeper understanding of the London trade at the time. The author provides us with new insights into de Lamerie's remarkable success and influence within the London scene.
Full Product Details
Author: Ellenor Alcorn ,
Tessa V. Murdoch
Publisher: John Adamson Publishing Consultants
Imprint: John Adamson
Dimensions:
Width: 22.70cm
, Height: 1.80cm
, Length: 30.30cm
Weight: 1.007kg
ISBN: 9780952432265
ISBN 10: 0952432269
Pages: 128
Publication Date: 06 October 2006
Audience:
General/trade
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General
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
Ellenor Alcorn has neatly ... made the Cahn collection of silver marked by de Lamerie into an illustration of the complexities of authorship in silver ... Tessa Murdoch elegantly sets the scene by describing the Huguenot community in London during the period. Christopher Hartop, The Burlington Magazine; Ellenor Alcorn [has produced] a lively, up-to-date picture of the interdependence and working relationships of eighteenth-century master silversmiths. The reader gains not only knowledge of de Lamerie as a silversmith and businessman but as a man who was committed to the Huguenot community ... The catalog features beautiful photos and meticulous research for each object and as such is a treat for English silver aficionados. Dorothea Burstyn, Silver Magazine
Author Information
Ellenor Alcorn is Associate Curator of European Sculpture and Decorative Arts at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Between 2003 and 2010 she was consulting curator for the Jerome and Rita Gans Collection of English Silver at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. She is preparing a catalogue of the British silver in the Toledo Museum of Art. For twenty years she was a curator in the Department of European Decorative Arts and Sculpture at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. She is the author of English Silver in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (vol. 1, 1993 and vol. 2, 2000) and also contributed to Rococo Silver in England and Its Colonies: Papers from a Symposium at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, in 2004 (2006).
