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Silver for entertaining : the Ickworth collection

Rothwell, James, author

Overview

One of the most important collections of eighteenth-century silver in Europe is to be found at Ickworth House in Suffolk. It extends to nearly a thousand pieces, is of the highest quality, style and exuberance of form and survives virtually intact along with extensive and previously untapped archival evidence of its commissioning and use, and of the diplomatic, political and court appointments of its principal patron, George William Hervey, 2nd Earl of Bristol (1721-75). The finest London makers of the time are represented including Paul de Lamerie, Paul Crespin and, in particular, Frederick Kandler, and it also contains a significant quantity of continental pieces, commissioned contemporaneously whilst Lord Bristol was in Turin. It was in part by maintaining a sufficient state of 'magnificence' there, and in Madrid, that the Earl could hold the diplomatic ground for Britain during the Seven Years War and his silver, of the latest French fashions and of opulent extent, was a critical tool in his armoury. This book, which will be lavishly illustrated, will analyse the individual objects from stylistic and technical perspectives, and use them to shed light on the patronage, fashion and social history of a vibrant and turbulent era of European history.

• Publisher: Philip Wilson Publishers, an imprint of I.B. Tauris & Co. Ltd
• Subject: Bristol, John Hervey, Earl of, 1665-1751 Art collections Catalogs. / Bristol, John Hervey, Earl of, 1665-1751 / Hervey, Frederick 1730-1803 / Bauhaus Dessau 1986-1994 Bereich Architektur und Sammlungen / 1700-1799 / Silverwork Europe 18th century Catalogs. / Silverwork Private collections England Bury St. Edmunds Catalogs. / Orfلevrerie Europe 18e siلecle Catalogues. / Orfلevrerie Collections privâees Grande-Bretagne Catalogues. / Art Private collections. / Silverwork. / Silverwork Private collections. / Tafelsilber / Privatsammlung / 21.92 gold- and silverwork. / England Bury St. Edmunds. / Europe. / Ickworth House Ickworth
• ISBN: 9781781300428, 1781300429

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