Beyond the Maker's Mark
Paul De Lamerie Silver in the Cahn Collection
Published on 6. October 2006
Book
Hardback
128 pages
978-0-9524322-6-5 (ISBN)
Description
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.
Reviews / Votes
"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 MagazineMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United Kingdom
Publishing group
John Adamson Publishing Consultants
Illustrations
67 in colour, 6 marks
Dimensions
Height: 303 mm
Width: 227 mm
Thickness: 18 mm
Weight
1007 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-9524322-6-5 (9780952432265)
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Schweitzer Classification
Persons
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).
Content
Preface by Kaywin Feldman, formerly Director, Memphis Brooks Museum, Memphis, Tennessee; Acknowledgements; Foreword by Tessa Murdoch, Acting Keeper, Victoria and Albert Museum, London: "Paul de Lamerie and the London Scene"; Catalogue: Section I: Paul de Lamerie's contemporaries; Section II: Paul de Lamerie; Select Bibliography; Photographic Credits; Index