|
Author
|
Topic: Pewter Holloware and Flatware?
|
chef de chambre
Admin & Advocatus Diaboli
Member # 4
|
posted 11-24-2001 05:33 PM
    
Hi All,One subject I don't have a lot of information on is pewter holloware and flatware of the 15th century (I do have the MoL book on household objects, which has a very small section). I am desperatly looking for sources to read up on this subject. Can anyone out there help provide information? Thanks in advance to all. -------------------- Bob R.
Registered: May 2000 | IP: Logged
|
|
|
|
chef de chambre
Admin & Advocatus Diaboli
Member # 4
|
posted 11-24-2001 10:24 PM
Hi Zanetto,Thanks for the tip. I'll get it as soon as funds allow. Does anybody know of any other books on the subject? Also covering continental styles? Thanks again! -------------------- Bob R.
Registered: May 2000 | IP: Logged
|
|
|
|
Gwen
Member
Member # 126
|
posted 11-26-2001 07:22 PM
Just remembered this one-"Pewter spoons and other related material of the 14th - 17th Centuries" (in the collection of the Herbert Art Gallery & Museum, Coventry) Sara Muldoon & Roger Brownsword Contents:
Part 1- Coventry Pewterers
Part 2- Spoon Alloys and Spoon Production
Part 3 - Descriptions of the spoons and spoon mould
Bibliography 27 pages / oversized format
City of Coventry Leisure services
ISBN 0-901606 28 6 I picked this booklet up for $3 at Pennsic several years ago, and it was a fantastic find. Lots of info on pewterers and their craft, the guilds, social standing, etc., not to mention all of the technical metallurgical stuff and good photos of the spoons & moulds. Hope you'll be able to find it through ABE or someplace, it's really worthwhile. Gwen
Registered: Feb 2001 | IP: Logged
|
|
chef de chambre
Admin & Advocatus Diaboli
Member # 4
|
posted 11-27-2001 09:30 AM
Hi All,Thanks for the great leads on publications! More to add to the library when funds permit. Perhaps some of our Continental betheren can point us to sources for holloware on the Continent. That it's in another language isn't a real problem, as we can struggle our way through French or German, and our company has a native Dutch speaker as a member. -------------------- Bob R.
Registered: May 2000 | IP: Logged
|
|
J.K. Vernier
Member
Member # 123
|
posted 11-27-2001 11:49 PM
I can strongly recommend "Thuis in de Late Middeleeuwen: Het Nederlands Burgerinterieur 1400-1535" (Roughly, Housewares in the late middle ages: The Netherlandish Town Interior 1400-1535). This has a good selection of pewterware, including some unusual items like trenchers, as well as ceramic utensils, and all manner of household stuff (They have, for instance, two good pictures of the only 15th-century razor I've seen. Good furniture, tools, candlesticks, etc. This is an exhibit catalogue from Deventer, 1980, Imprint: Uitgeverij Waanders, Zwolle 1980. ISBN 90 70072 66 1. I got my copy on abebooks last year.[ 11-27-2001: Message edited by: J.K. Vernier ]
Registered: Feb 2001 | IP: Logged
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
UBBFriend: Email this page to someone!
That goes to the top of the "must have" list. Out of curiosity, how much did it go for?I ask as I'd like an idea of how long it will be before I can afford to lay hands on one.
