English Silver at the Courts of the Tsars- Yale Center for British Arts

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carlaz Posts: 239 Registered: Jan 2001	posted 03-17-2006 01:02 PM The Yale Center for British Art will be hosting an exhibit starting May 25th on rare English silver (as well as other items of interest)from the Kremlin. This exhibit will be available until October 22, 2006. IP: Logged
IJP Posts: 326 Registered: Oct 2004	posted 03-18-2006 07:23 PM Unfortunately, I highly doubt that I'll make it to New Haven for this exhibit, but for those interested, here's a summary from the Yale page on future exhibitions: quote: Britannia & Muscovy: English Silver at the Court of the Tsars 25 MAY � 10 SEPTEMBER, 2006 The superb collection of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century English diplomatic silver from the Armory Museum of the Moscow Kremlin is the centerpiece of Britannia & Muscovy: English Silver at the Court of the Tsars. Throughout this period, emissaries from the British Crown, as well as from the Muscovy Company (a group of merchants trading with Russia), visited the Tsar's court bearing gifts. Through the display of magnificent pieces of silver from the Armory Museum of the Moscow Kremlin, as well as related historical books, manuscripts, maps, and sea charts of the various rulers and ambassadors, this exhibition will explicate the development of diplomatic, trade, and cultural ties between England and Russia from the time of Elizabeth I through the early reign of Charles II. Because much English silver from the period was melted down, especially during the English Civil War, few pieces of the scale and splendor of the Kremlin items have survived anywhere in the world. Dating from the 1550s to the 1660s, the silver is of a type not represented in other museums in Europe and America. The pieces from the Kremlin are gilded and heavily embellished, displaying the technical brilliance and ingenuity for which Elizabethan and Jacobean London silversmiths were famed. Also on view will be an important group of nineteen firearms that were prized as diplomatic gifts because of their technical ingenuity. In order to recreate the splendor that English visitors encountered at the Kremlin, the exhibition also includes fifteen precious objects of Russian origin produced in the Kremlin workshops for use at the Moscow court. The exhibition has been organized by the Armory Museum of the Kremlin in association with the Gilbert Collection, London, and the Yale Center for British Art. The Center is the only U.S. venue for this exhibition, which has been selected by curators from the Armory Museum of the Kremlin. At Yale, the organizing curator is Cassandra Albinson, Assistant Curator of Paintings and Sculpture, Yale Center for British Art. There is also a press release available in pdf. While I may not be able to visit the show, I may definitely consider getting the catalog. IP: Logged
June Martin Forum Master Posts: 1326 Registered: Apr 93	posted 06-10-2006 03:47 PM The catalog is available by telephoning Yale University Press at 800-405-1619. IP: Logged

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