Guide To Silver (Little Brown)

by SergioCoradeschi (Author)

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  Hardcover
  1994

  $7.49

  Focusing on the history of silverware from the 16th century to the 1950s, this book traces developments in taste and style, analyzing the complex relationships between form and decoration. It also goes beyond aesthetic concerns to consider silver within its economic and social context, as a reflection of historical trends and fashions. The guide is illustrated throughout with a range of silver artifacts, including ornamental boxes, cutlery, candelabra, teapots, soup tureens and trays, and there are over 400 drawings of marks, as well as sections devoted to the biographies of the most celebrated silversmiths.