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This is the first comprehensive survey of the New York Historical Society's superb collection of early American silver. It features the full range of silver works, from masterpieces like the 1772 salver by New York City silversmith Lewis Fueter, to the teapot made by Albany silversmith Kiliaen Van Rensselaer in 1695—one of the earliest teapots made in New York.
Price: $69.95
Pages: 352
Publisher: D Giles Limited
Imprint: GILES
Publication Date:
03 November 2011
Trim Size: 11.00 X 8.50 in
ISBN: 9781904832652
Format: Hardcover
BISACs:
“It will be one of your favorite books on antique silver!” Jeff Herman, Society of American Silversmiths
“helps to fill out a picture of the history of New York by providing a close-up of what were often its residents’ most precious possessions” Nancy Hervey-Bathurst, The Art Newspaper
“a model of useful scholarship” Stephen May, Antiques and the Arts
“Belongs on the shelf of any student of American silver or material culture…” Dean Six, Silver
“To see one of the country’s most historically compelling silver collections without leaving home, read Stories in Sterling” Doris Athineos, Traditional Home
"Anyone with a love of silver, an admiration for creativity or an interest in New York’s great history will want to own this beautiful book" Donald Fennimore, Curator Emeritus at Winterthur Museum
"Stories in Sterling will serve as a standard for the Society’s collection for decades to come" Jeanne Falino, Adjunct Curator, Museum of Arts and Design
"Will undoubtedly become one of the standard reference books on American silver" Beth Carver Wees, Curator of American Decorative Arts, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
"Stories is superb in every sense" Gerry W.R. Ward, The Katharine Lane Weems Senior Curator of American Decorative Arts and Sculpture, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
“helps to fill out a picture of the history of New York by providing a close-up of what were often its residents’ most precious possessions” Nancy Hervey-Bathurst, The Art Newspaper
“a model of useful scholarship” Stephen May, Antiques and the Arts
“Belongs on the shelf of any student of American silver or material culture…” Dean Six, Silver
“To see one of the country’s most historically compelling silver collections without leaving home, read Stories in Sterling” Doris Athineos, Traditional Home
"Anyone with a love of silver, an admiration for creativity or an interest in New York’s great history will want to own this beautiful book" Donald Fennimore, Curator Emeritus at Winterthur Museum
"Stories in Sterling will serve as a standard for the Society’s collection for decades to come" Jeanne Falino, Adjunct Curator, Museum of Arts and Design
"Will undoubtedly become one of the standard reference books on American silver" Beth Carver Wees, Curator of American Decorative Arts, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
"Stories is superb in every sense" Gerry W.R. Ward, The Katharine Lane Weems Senior Curator of American Decorative Arts and Sculpture, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Margaret K. Hofer is curator of Decorative Arts at the New-York Historical Society, where she has organized numerous exhibitions, including A New Light on Tiffany (2007), which she co-authored.
Debra Schmidt Bach, associate curator at the New-York Historical Society organized the exhibition The Grateful Dead: Now Playing at the New-York Historical Society(2010).
Kenneth L. Ames is professor of American Decorative Arts and Material Culture of the 18th and 19th-centuries at the Bard Graduate Center, New York. His publications include Beyond Necessity: Art in the Folk Tradition and Death in the Dining Room and Other Tales of Victorian Culture (1995).
David L. Barquist is curator of American Decorative Arts at Philadelphia Museum of Art, and a scholar on colonial New York silver. He is the author of Myer Myers Jewish Silversmith in Colonial New York(2001).
Debra Schmidt Bach, associate curator at the New-York Historical Society organized the exhibition The Grateful Dead: Now Playing at the New-York Historical Society(2010).
Kenneth L. Ames is professor of American Decorative Arts and Material Culture of the 18th and 19th-centuries at the Bard Graduate Center, New York. His publications include Beyond Necessity: Art in the Folk Tradition and Death in the Dining Room and Other Tales of Victorian Culture (1995).
David L. Barquist is curator of American Decorative Arts at Philadelphia Museum of Art, and a scholar on colonial New York silver. He is the author of Myer Myers Jewish Silversmith in Colonial New York(2001).
Foreword by Louise Mirrer
Preface by Linda S. Ferber
Acknowledgments by Margaret K. Hofer
Sterling Legacies: The Formation of the New-York Historical Society Silver Collection by Margaret K. Hofer
Writing on American Silver by Kenneth L. Ames
The Stylistic Distinctiveness of Colonial New York Silver by David L. Barquist
CATALOGUE
Notes to the Catalogue
1 Converging Cultures in Colonial New York
2 From Craft to Industry
3 Honoring Achievement
4 Rites of Passage
5 Vessels of Conviviality
6 The Rituals of Tea and Coffee
7 Elegant Dining
Appendix: Checklist of Silver and Related Objects at the New-York Historical Society
Frequently Cited Sources
Index
Preface by Linda S. Ferber
Acknowledgments by Margaret K. Hofer
Sterling Legacies: The Formation of the New-York Historical Society Silver Collection by Margaret K. Hofer
Writing on American Silver by Kenneth L. Ames
The Stylistic Distinctiveness of Colonial New York Silver by David L. Barquist
CATALOGUE
Notes to the Catalogue
1 Converging Cultures in Colonial New York
2 From Craft to Industry
3 Honoring Achievement
4 Rites of Passage
5 Vessels of Conviviality
6 The Rituals of Tea and Coffee
7 Elegant Dining
Appendix: Checklist of Silver and Related Objects at the New-York Historical Society
Frequently Cited Sources
Index