Rococo silver in England and its colonies: papers from a symposium at Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond 2004

Contents

Introduction: new perspectives on Rococo silver / Ellenor Alcorn. -- 'French fancy' silver from Paris and English patrons / Philippa and Gordon Glanville. -- Patrons and consumers: buying silver in eighteenth-century London / Christopher Hartop. -- 'Quelque chose de beau et de bon go^ut': a silver-gilt toilet service for the Dresden Doppelhochzeit of 1747 / Maureen Cassidy-Geiger. -- Evidence without documents: patterns of ornament in Rococo and Régence silver / Timothy Schroder. -- Retooling for the Rococo: assembling the complex network of talents, skill and language to express the new style / Ubaldo Vitali. -- Fit for a gentleman's table: revised thoughts on Rococo silver in Maryland / Jennifer F. Goldsborough. -- The Verplanck family silver: fashion and politics in colonial New York / Beth Carver Wees.