East Anglian Silver

Christopher Hartop was born in Norfolk. He was a senior director of Christie's from 1984 to 1999 and head of the Silver Department at Christie's in New York for ten years. He is the author of The Huguenot Legacy, English Silver 1680-1760 (1996) and British and Irish Silver in the Fogg Museum, Harvard University (2005), and was a contributor to Grove's Dictionary of Art (1995) and William Beckford: an Eye for the Magnificent (2002). He was Chairman of the Silver Society 2002-3. Mary Fewster taught history for twenty-seven years at the Hewett School, Norwich, the last fifteen as head of the department. Brought up at Aldeburgh, she developed a strong interest in local history from an early age. She completed an M.Phil. on the Yarmouth herring industry for the University of East Anglia School of East Anglian Studies and is currently working on a Ph.D. on East Anglian goldsmiths 1500-1740 for the Department of History. Christopher Garibaldi worked with English Heritage at Walmer Castle and Audley End House and later catalogued the silver at Buckingham Palace and Windsor Castle as well as that in the Speaker's Residence at the House of Commons. From 1998 to 2003 he was Assistant Keeper of Decorative Art at Norwich Castle Museum. He now works as a freelance art historian. Philippa Glanville is an Associate Fellow of Warwick University. Recently retired as Academic Director of Waddesdon Manor, the Rothschild Collection, she was Chief Curator of Metalwork at the Victoria & Albert Museum 1989-99. Her books include Silver in England (1987), Silver in Tudor and Early Stuart England (1990), and, with Gordon Glanville, a chapter in City Merchants and the Arts (2004). She is a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries and was Chairman of the Silver Society 1988-9. Brand Inglis first developed an interest in silver while at Westminster School and he became a dealer in antique silver in 1962. He is the author of numerous publications including The Arthur Negus Guide to British Silver (1980) and in 1972 he co-curated the exhibition Lynn Silver, the catalogue of which remains a standard work. He was Chairman of the Silver Society 1978-9. He now lives in France. Timothy Kent is a barrister and the author of many books on silver including London Silver Spoons and Their Makers 1500-1697 (1981), West Country Silver Spoons and Their Makers 1550-1750 (1992) and Sussex Silver and Its Makers (2002), as well as numerous papers in learned journals. He is a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries and was Chairman of the Silver Society 1977-8. Colin Ticktum worked for the Treasury for over twenty-five years, where he was successively Head of Finance and Senior Contracts Officer in Norwich. In 1986 he left and started St Giles Silver, specializing in antique silver but especially spoons. His own collection, comprising some five hundred examples, many of them East Anglian, was published privately in 2001. Wynyard Wilkinson, born in Nairobi, spent a large part of his life near East Dereham, hence his natural interest in East Anglian silver. A dealer and published researcher since his teens, he now lives south of Bury St Edmunds whose silversmiths he has been researching during the last thirty years.

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• Foreword by the Rt. Hon. The Earl Ferrers PC, DL, High Steward of Norwich Cathedral; Introduction; Philippa Glanville: Silver in East Anglia; Mary Fewster: Goldsmiths in Norfolk and Suffolk, 1500-1750; Christopher Hartop: Silver made in East Anglia; Norwich; Christopher Hartop: Silversmithing in Norwich; Christopher Garibaldi: The guildhall of the Norwich company of goldsmiths; Colin Ticktum: Possible attributions for four sixteenth-century maker's marks from Norwich; William Cobbold (c. 1530-1585/6); Peter Peterson (fl. 1554-1603); Timothy Skottowe (fl. c. 1617-1645); The Haslewood family (fl. c. 1625-1740); Thomas Havers (fl. c. 1674-1732); James Daniell (fl. c. 1689); The 'leopard's head and fleur-de-lis' group (c. 1649-after 1683}; Decorated spoons of Norfolk and Suffolk: Timothy Kent: Decoration on seventeenth-century East Anglian spoons; The Waveney Valley: Silversmiths in the Waveney Valley; Great Yarmouth; King's Lynn: Brand Inglis: The silversmiths of King's Lynn; Colin Ticktum: The introduction of the King's Lynn town mark and the work of Thomas Cooke; Bury St Edmunds: Wynyard Wilkinson: Notes on the silversmiths of Bury St Edmunds 1550-1665; Ipswich and Colchester; Cambridge silversmiths: Church plate inventories in print; Bibliography; Index of marks; Index