By Angela d'Addamo
On 12th July, until 14th October, the Wallace Collection will open the doors to a princely exhibition dedicated to the Renaissance silver. This is an unmissable opportunity for collectors, connoisseurs or enthusiasts to see treasures on public display for the first time in many years.
The exhibition consists of 75 works from the Schroder Collection, a private collection among the most important worldwide for Renaissance silver, including masterly historic pieces from Italy, Germany, France and England. The display is a journey through the 16th-century intellectual world, with objects often created more for their artistic value than for a practical function, and the sophisticated craft survived through the centuries to war, accident, or change in fashion and religious ideology which so often determined the destruction of silverware, particularly in Italy. The exhibition Renaissance Silver from the Schroder Collection has been introduced, during its official presentation at The London Silver Vaults, by the curator Tim Schroder, writer and historian who has also signed the lavishly illustrated catalogue of the event. The silver expert and international dealer Stephen Stodel, instead, did the honours of the house presenting The London Silver Vaults, which are the seat of a special selling exhibition on display until the 30th September: Collecting to Impress: Inspiration in Silver. Timed to coincide exactly with the exhibition at the Wallace Collection, this interesting range of decorative pieces, modern and antique, continental and English, could not be hosted but by the house of the world’s largest selection of silver for sale.
Collectors or experts, amateurs or just curious, London is offering two incredible windows on the world of ancient and modern luxury, traditional craft and renewed trends. All in shining silver.
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