Royal Goldsmiths:
Koopman Rare Art
The Art of Rundell & Bridge
A loan exhibition
in support of
The Prince’s Trust
London
June 14--July 1, 2005
The Book
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| Royal Goldsmiths: The Art of Rundell & Bridge, 1797-1843
by Christopher Hartop |
The first to be devoted to Rundell & Bridge, the Royal Goldsmiths, who served four monarchs, this book presents a wealth of gold and silver objects, jewellery, snuffboxes, watches, medals and decorations, as well as works in ormolu and bronze, from museums and private collections around the world, including the Royal Collection. Some of the items are published here for the first time. It is an indispensable tool for the collector as well as for anyone interested in the arts and commerce of early nineteenth-century Britain. Tying in with the exhibition, this book is published and distributed by John Adamson. It features a foreword by His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales and essays by Philippa Glanville, Diana Scarisbrick, Charles Truman, David Watkin and Matthew Winterbottom. The net proceeds from the sale of the book will benefit The Prince’s Trust, helping disadvantaged young people move forward with their lives. John Adamson
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ContentsForeword His Royal Highness The Prince of WalesAcknowledgements Chronology Philippa Glanville Introduction The Business of Luxury At the Sign of the Golden Salmon ‘The First of Its Kind in the Empire’ A Patriotic Age
Charles Truman Rundell’s and Their Gold Box ‘... the most splendid collection of jewels ... in Europe ...’ ‘A Manufactory on a large and liberal plan’ David Watkin The Lure of Egypt ‘Ten thousand ounces of sterling silver monthly’ Our ‘greatest patron & best friend’ Diana Scarisbrick George IV and Jewellery
Matthew Winterbottom George IV and the The Great Accumulator Naturalism and Exoticism The Final Years Exhibition Checklist Bibliography Index
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The AuthorChristopher Hartop was a director of Christie’s New York 1984--99 where he was responsible for a number of notable sales. He wrote the catalogues for Gold and Silver of the Atocha and Santa Margarita (1988) and The Givenchy Hanover Chandelier (1993). He is the author of The Huguenot Legacy: English Silver 1680--1760 (1996), British and Irish Silver in the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University (forthcoming, spring 2006) and edited East Anglian Silver 1550-1750 (2004). Most recently he contributed the silver section to Joséphine and the Arts (Getty, 2005).
| The EssayistsPhilippa Glanville is the author of Silver in England (1984), Silver in Tudor and Early Stuart England (1989), Silver (1995), Elegant Eating (1998) and most recently, with Gordon Glanville, a chapter in City Merchants and the Arts. (2004). She was Keeper of Metalwork at the Victoria and Albert Museum until 1999, and subsequently Academic Director, the Rothschild Collection, Waddesdon Manor.Diana Scarisbrick is an independent historian of jewellery. Her books include Ancestral Jewels (1989), Rings: Symbols of Wealth, Power and Affection (1993), Jewellery in Britain 1066-1837 (1994), Chaumet: Master Jewellers since 1780 (1995) and Four Thousand Years of Craftsmanship: The Hashimoto Collection of Rings (2004). She has organized exhibitions for museums in America, Japan and France, and her next, Bijoux de Sentiment, opens in Tokyo and afterwards in Paris in 2006. Charles Truman is the author of The James A. de Rothschild Collection: Gold Boxes and Miniatures(1975), The Thyssen Bornemisza Collection of Gold Boxes (1984), The Gilbert Collection of Gold Boxes - Part 1 (1991) and Part 2 (1999) , and edited The Sotheby’s Concise Encyclopaedia of Silver (1992). A director of C. & L. Burman Ltd, he is Chairman of the British Antique Dealers’ Association. David Watkin is Professor of the History of Architecture at Cambridge University and the author of Thomas Hope and the Neo-classical Idea (1968), Morality and Architecture (1977), The Royal Interiors of Regency England (1990) and most recently The Architect King: George III and the Culture of the Enlightenment (2004). Matthew Winterbottom is Assistant Curator (Works of Art), The Royal Collection where he specializes in silver and precious objects. He contributed to Royal Treasures (2001) and most recently to George III and Queen Charlotte: Patronage, Collecting and Court Taste (2004). |
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