tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post1875423012629839887..comments2024-03-28T22:50:02.315+11:00Comments on ART and ARCHITECTURE, mainly: London Silver Vaults: my favourite site for silver artHelshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02849907428208235392noreply@blogger.comBlogger18125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post-15316751214271317302019-09-12T01:13:02.578+10:002019-09-12T01:13:02.578+10:00Hilary
you will love the Silver Vaults, whether y...Hilary<br /><br />you will love the Silver Vaults, whether you are a potential buyer or just a thoughtful visitor to the various eras of silver art. But in either case, you are right that reading up on silver art history before you visit will make for a much more insightful experience.Helshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02849907428208235392noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post-70535370319935984232019-09-11T17:27:32.041+10:002019-09-11T17:27:32.041+10:00Thanks Hels for sending me here ... this came up l...Thanks Hels for sending me here ... this came up last year when I was in Canada having a troubling time ... so things got missed out. I really should get up to the Silver Vaults - I want to go to London next week ... perhaps I'll visit them then. I'll read up before I go ... cheers for now - HilaryHilary Melton-Butcherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17596532480645510678noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post-45570599609293719882018-12-28T10:42:45.961+11:002018-12-28T10:42:45.961+11:00Jayden
In lectures, my favourite era of history w...Jayden<br /><br />In lectures, my favourite era of history was the 17th century expulsion and resettlement of the Huguenots and my favourite art history was silver art from the Huguenots on. Not surprisingly, visiting the London Silver Vaults was bound to be a joyous experience :)<br /><br />Helshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02849907428208235392noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post-34472776502788779972018-12-28T00:06:13.361+11:002018-12-28T00:06:13.361+11:00Thanks for one’s Good posting! I enjoyed reading i...Thanks for one’s Good posting! I enjoyed reading it.<br /><br /><b><a href="http://pacificforeignexchange.com/" rel="nofollow">Currency Exchange San Francisco</a></b><br />Jayden Richhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08161915540847526192noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post-7619430696809585792018-02-05T23:26:07.894+11:002018-02-05T23:26:07.894+11:00bazza
it breaks my heart when countries across th...bazza<br /><br />it breaks my heart when countries across the world are turning away refugees, hauling their boats out to sea to sink them or putting them into prison camps. People motivated enough to leave their own homelands are usually the best citizens their new homelands will ever have. I know three people who were honoured over the recent Australia Day weekend, all of them children when they arrived in Australia with their refugee parents in 1948-56.<br /><br />I suspect the difference with the Huguenot refugees was that the King and the Church felt morally impelled to welcome the exiled Protestants and to save them from their French Catholic oppressors. The fact that they were highly skilled craftsmen, professionals and business men was just an additional stroke of good luck.Helshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02849907428208235392noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post-8084525833905606982018-02-05T21:18:19.601+11:002018-02-05T21:18:19.601+11:00When I left school I worked just off Chancery Lane...When I left school I worked just off Chancery Lane in Cursitor Street for a Market Research Company about 100m from the Silver Vaults. I would pass by everyday with a vague inquisitiveness about what they were for. It was very many years later when I learned the real facts. <br />In my guided walks around London we have seen the spindle or bobbins above some of the houses in Spitalfields which were signs of a Huguenot's house/place of work. The Huguenot's were followed into London by immigrants from Ireland, Jews from Russia and Eastern Europe and latterly by Bangladeshis. All of those communities have thrived and been absorbed to varying degrees by British society.<br /><b><a href="http://todiscoverice.blogspot.com/" rel="nofollow"> CLICK HERE for Bazza’s salubrious Blog ‘To Discover Ice’</a></b>bazzahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14794010156639774028noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post-52431054077345116502018-02-05T14:38:48.491+11:002018-02-05T14:38:48.491+11:00mem
you are fortunate having Huguenot relatives, ...mem<br /><br />you are fortunate having Huguenot relatives, although you would probably prefer riches from mercantile success, rather than from the slave trade.<br /><br />But now to the central issue. There were two million Huguenots in France, until Catholic hostility and religious conflicts led to the French Wars of Religion (ended in 1600 AD). Thus Protestant Huguenots numbers dropped rapidly, even before their formal expulsion. When King Louis XIV expelled all the surviving Huguenots in 1685, it meant that France lost its merchants, teachers, artisans, weavers, silk artists, doctors, watch makers etc.<br /><br />The French had to choose between enforcing religious principles and protecting the nation's economy. They chose to enforce religious conformity :(Helshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02849907428208235392noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post-28432338238573937142018-02-05T10:08:33.665+11:002018-02-05T10:08:33.665+11:00Apparently the loss of the Huguenots to the French...Apparently the loss of the Huguenots to the French economy was pretty catastrophic so they suffered as a result of their stupidity . I had a Huguenot ancestor who made his fortune in Dublin as a leather merchant and slave trader !!!!! :(memhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05520080648914042943noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post-6802118399619194592018-02-04T09:49:55.258+11:002018-02-04T09:49:55.258+11:00Nikki-ann
I knew all about French and English sil...Nikki-ann<br /><br />I knew all about French and English silver art because my thesis was about the Huguenots. But you are so correct... there are many great places to us visit for the first time. Isn't the bloggersphere wonderful :)<br />Helshttp://melbourneblogger.blogspot.com.aunoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post-3226997905813721842018-02-04T08:41:08.878+11:002018-02-04T08:41:08.878+11:00I've never heard of this place before. What a ...I've never heard of this place before. What a great place to visit :)Nikki - Notes of Lifehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15116292112164268244noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post-67496236500624569782018-02-03T23:30:50.490+11:002018-02-03T23:30:50.490+11:00Parnassus
the covered tureen on a stand is a silv...Parnassus<br /><br />the covered tureen on a stand is a silver confection of shells covered with putti, crayfish and vegetables. I found the height and width easily, but the cost of silver art depends largely on its weight. Cooper Hewitt says the two tureens together were 42 kilograms. That would have made them more valuable than my house, car and city office put together!!<br /><br />Meissonnier worked for Louis XV, becoming the royal goldsmith in 1724. If we date the tureens to 1735-40, any Huguenot taste has clearly disappeared and the rococo was running wild.<br /><br />https://www.cooperhewitt.org/2014/09/08/surf-turf-a-silver-tureen-for-a-duke/<br />Helshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02849907428208235392noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post-47792636280603813942018-02-03T23:14:10.644+11:002018-02-03T23:14:10.644+11:00Many thanks, Hidden London Tours.
I have been to ...Many thanks, Hidden London Tours.<br /><br />I have been to many of the places you have highlighted, but never in an organised tour and never with a theme. As you say, tourists always see the more obvious sites, rather than the less visible remains of London’s past. And I include British tourists in this, many who have never heard of the silver vaults. Helshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02849907428208235392noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post-16024127851932207182018-02-03T23:09:15.051+11:002018-02-03T23:09:15.051+11:00Student
the Huguenots were a small proportion of ...Student<br /><br />the Huguenots were a small proportion of the French population, but they were the most skilled silver artists, silk weavers, lace makers and merchants in France. When they were forced to convert to Catholicism or be exiled to a Protestant country, the French economy was severely damaged.<br /><br />Lucky Britain, Holland and Germany. Silly France.Helshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02849907428208235392noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post-25722423763726857352018-02-03T23:02:37.748+11:002018-02-03T23:02:37.748+11:00Andrew
correct, there was never a successful thef...Andrew<br /><br />correct, there was never a successful theft.<br /><br />I liked the historian who pointed out that even during WW2, when the Germans were bombing the buildings to smithereens, they couldn't budge the concrete and steel vaults. <br /><br />http://moneysafebox.com/the-london-silver-vaults.htmlHelshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02849907428208235392noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post-69867205817534207122018-02-03T16:03:59.973+11:002018-02-03T16:03:59.973+11:00Hello Hels, Somehow I missed the Silver Vaults on...Hello Hels, Somehow I missed the Silver Vaults on my previous trips to London, but there's always next time! I generally prefer the more chaste forms of silver (no pun intended), but I recall the excitement when Cleveland bought its Meissonnier tureen, which I am sure you know well:<br />http://www.clevelandart.org/art/1977.182<br /><br />It was one of a pair, and even then I didn't understand the reason for breaking them up. Great collections are formed by paying record prices and then holding on to the objects. I'll bet that the museum wishes it could reverse that decision! At any rate, it is one of the great masterpieces of French Rococo art.<br />--Jim <br /> Parnassushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08958901307538141468noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post-29460110576444680532018-02-03T12:57:16.031+11:002018-02-03T12:57:16.031+11:00In part of the Hidden London Tour, see the western...In part of the Hidden London Tour, see the western gate of the Roman and medieval city, Newgate, an area once infamous for its prison. Then a short stroll to St Etheldreda’s, another remarkable medieval survival where the crypt and chapel still stand. Then move to the Silver Vaults, which was built as a Victorian safe deposit but is now a set of underground silversmiths and shops, and is little known outside the silver-dealing world. Finally the medieval Lincoln’s Inn, one of the four remaining Inns of Court in London, where aspiring lawyers lived and learnt their trade.<br /><br />The Hidden London Tour is led by a historian or archaeologist.<br />https://www.contexttravel.com/cities/london/tours/hidden-londonHidden London Tourhttps://www.contexttravel.com/cities/london/tours/hidden-londonnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post-42737064281853961272018-02-03T06:57:53.214+11:002018-02-03T06:57:53.214+11:00Jay and I remember the courses on Huguenots. Poor ...Jay and I remember the courses on Huguenots. Poor oppressed families, but so gifted.Another Studentnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post-669134025374515992018-02-03T06:48:31.117+11:002018-02-03T06:48:31.117+11:00I've never been a fan of gold, but I do love s...I've never been a fan of gold, but I do love silver. I take it that there has never been a robbery in either incarnation of the vaults.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com