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Treasures of Silver at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge

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ISBN-10: 052181880X

ISBN-13: 9780521818803

Edition: 2002

Authors: Oliver Rackham, Corpus Christi College Staff, John Cleaver

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This is an account of the unique assemblage of silver and silver-mounted artefacts belonging to Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, some of them dating back to the College's foundation 650 years ago. They include extraordinary objects such as a thirteenth-century drinking vessel made of the horn of an extinct animal, as well as the everyday tools and utensils of past centuries. Although some of them are well known to art historians, they have never been published in detail. The objects are especially significant for being documented in the College's archives from the fourteenth century onwards. The book investigates the objects' construction, how the College came by them, their original…    
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Book details

List price: $72.99
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 12/5/2002
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 320
Size: 7.80" wide x 10.00" long x 1.10" tall
Weight: 2.420
Language: English

John Cleaver is Assistant Director of Research at the Microelectronics Research Centre, Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, where his research interests are in physics and the fabrication of novel microelectronic devices.

Foreword by the Master of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, Professor
Preface
Outline of the college's history
Introduction to plate
Plate in the college
The Great Horn or Bugle
Plate of the gilds: the Coconut Cup
Medieval college plate: mazers, seals, and the Knob
Parkerians and Elizabethan plate (with a contribution
Fellow-commoners and the Civil War
Chapel plate
Post-1690 drinking vessels
Coffee pots, also Argyle, teapots and associated vessels
Candlesticks
Salvers or waiters
Inkstands or standishes
Casters or dredgers, cruet frames, grinders, and the administration of sugar
Salts and saltspoons
Mustards and mustard spoons
Tools or flatware
Instruments of tobacconing
Sporting plate
Things useful and extravagant
Modernistic plate
Appendices
Bibliography