A design tradition from the sixteenth century shines at the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston.
“Beautiful, Useful, and Enduring”
The story of the estimable arts and crafts silver of the Kalo Shop and the principled, indomitable woman at the firm’s helm: Clara Barck Welles.
Openings and Closings: November 11 to November 17
Check out what’s happening online and in person at museums around the country!
Silver Stories from S. J. Shrubsole
The folks at the eminent New York gallery have responded to the challenge of the coronavirus much like the Florentines in The Decameron did to the Black Plague: by telling stories
The Glories of Gorham
A forthcoming exhibition at the Rhode Island School of Design
tells the epic story of a great American silverware maker
Master of Magnificence
At the Frick, a sumptuous and revelatory exhibition on the seventeenth-century designer Luigi Valadier
Global exchange
How the craftsmanship of two cultures met in Gorham’s “Japanese Work” silver
Polished Performances
Classic and contemporary silver in dialogue at the Museum of the City of New York
Of troughs and trophies
A collection of silver prizes sheds light on America’s proud agrarian past.
The bouillabaisse of design influences on an early American silver soup tureen
A few years ago, one of two silver soup tureens ordered by Thomas Gibbons in 1810 came on the market, after remaining for nearly two centuries in the possession of his descendants.
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