Treasures of Silver at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge
Treasures of Silver at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge
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GBPThis is an account of the unique assemblage of silver and silver-mounted artefacts belonging to Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, some of them dating back to the College's foundation 650 years ago. They include extraordinary objects such as a thirteenth-century drinking vessel made of the horn of an extinct animal, as well as the everyday tools and utensils of past centuries. Although some of them are well known to art historians, they have never been published in detail. The objects are especially significant for being documented in the College's archives from the fourteenth century onwards. The book investigates the objects' construction, how the College came by them, their original meaning and context, how they came to survive the depredations of the Civil War, what happened to those that do not survive, evidence of wear and repair, and what they were (and still are) used for.
- An account of the unique assemblage of silver and silver-mounted artefacts belonging to Corpus Christi College, Cambridge
- Includes information about some artefacts that date back as far as 650 years ago
- Includes some artefacts that have never before been featured in book form
Product details
December 2002Hardback
9780521818803
320 pages
254 × 198 × 28 mm
1.102kg
448 b/w illus. 8 colour illus.
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Table of Contents
- Foreword by the Master of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, Professor Haroon Ahmed
- Preface
- 1. Outline of the college's history
- 2. Introduction to plate
- 3. Plate in the college
- 4. The Great Horn or Bugle
- 5. Plate of the gilds: the Coconut Cup
- 6. Medieval college plate: mazers, seals, and the Knob
- 7. Parkerians and Elizabethan plate (with a contribution by C. Hall)
- 8. Fellow-commoners and the Civil War
- 9. Chapel plate
- 10. Post-1690 drinking vessels
- 11. Coffee pots, also Argyle, teapots and associated vessels
- 12. Candlesticks
- 13. Salvers or waiters
- 14. Inkstands or standishes
- 15. Casters or dredgers, cruet frames, grinders, and the administration of sugar
- 16. Salts and saltspoons
- 17. Mustards and mustard spoons
- 18. Tools or flatware
- 19. Instruments of tobacconing
- 20. Sporting plate
- 21. Things useful and extravagant
- 22. Modernistic plate
- Appendices
- Bibliography.
