Treasures of Silver at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge

ISBN-13: 9780521818803 / Angielski / Twarda / 2003 / 320 str.

Oliver Rackham

Opis

An account of the silver and silver-mounted artefacts belonging to Corpus Christi College, Cambridge.

Spis treści

Foreword by the Master of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, Professor Haroon Ahmed; Preface; 1. Outline of the college's history; 2. Introduction to plate; 3. Plate in the college; 4. The Great Horn or Bugle; 5. Plate of the gilds: the Coconut Cup; 6. Medieval college plate: mazers, seals, and the Knob; 7. Parkerians and Elizabethan plate (with a contribution by C. Hall); 8. Fellow-commoners and the Civil War; 9. Chapel plate; 10. Post-1690 drinking vessels; 11. Coffee pots, also Argyle, teapots and associated vessels; 12. Candlesticks; 13. Salvers or waiters; 14. Inkstands or standishes; 15. Casters or dredgers, cruet frames, grinders, and the administration of sugar; 16. Salts and saltspoons; 17. Mustards and mustard spoons; 18. Tools or flatware; 19. Instruments of tobacconing; 20. Sporting plate; 21. Things useful and extravagant; 22. Modernistic plate; Appendices; Bibliography.