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ahwt Posts: 2384 |
posted 05-11-2024 12:10 PM
  
The Museum of Early Decorative Arts will a have program on the Memory and Meaning in Southern Silver, September 20-21, 2024. More information is available on this website. Memory and Meaning in Southern Silver This program focusses on how people of several southern states used the silver they purchased. I first saw a program that had this theme when the Georgia Museum of Art had an exhibit on “From Sideboard to Pulpit; Silver in Georgia” in November of 2006. Ashely Callahan curated this exhibit and later that year conducted the Third Henry Green Symposium of the Decorative Arts that included discussions on early silver production and use in Georgia. That was an interesting direction to take as most of the exhibits I had seen up until then concentrated on the makers and not who used the silver or how the silver was used. Alabama had an exhibit some years earlier that emphasized that most silver in Alabama was made in northern cities and dismissed it if made elsewhere. I think that overlooks the goal of many collectors; to seek pieces with inscriptions that show the personal history of the silver object. Also, this Exhibition was my first introduction to silver water dippers. These dippers were a popular purchase in Georgia and two of them are shown in the photo below. Several years later I showed these dippers to Dr. Benjamin Caldwell the author of Tennessee Silversmiths. He said he had never seen a silver water dipper in all to the Tennessee silver he had looked at. I included the tin and coconut shell dipper as my wife bought it at a farm auction in Tennessee. It seems that the tradition of showing one’s wealth with silver water dippers did not extend to Tennessee. [This message has been edited by ahwt (edited 05-13-2024).] IP: Logged |
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June Martin Forum Master Posts: 1349 |
posted 05-11-2024 08:03 PM
Thanks for sharing this, ahwt. Sounds like a wonderful program. IP: Logged |
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Silverpath Posts: 96 |
posted 05-12-2024 01:02 PM
Thanks for the information! I hope to attend. IP: Logged |
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