Silver + Form announces its inaugural exhibition and fair, set to take place at the stunning Turner Contemporary Art Gallery in Margate. The event, running from October 19th to 20th, 2024, will showcase a captivating collection of contemporary jewellery, silverware, objets d’art, and sculptures crafted by some of the most talented silversmiths and metalsmiths in the UK. Passion Silver + Form was founded by Anja Hessler, a Ramsgate-based artist known for her contemporary mobile sculptures,...
The Gerard collection of Chinese export silver comes for sale at Chiswick Auctions this autumn. The collection, inspired by the birthday gift of a tea caddy 20 years ago, represents an excellent cross-section of the forms, patterns, retailers, and makers of silver in the late Qing and early Republic period. It will be dispersed in over 125 lots with estimates ranging from £100 to £5000 on October 9th. Chinese silversmithing in the western manner has...
The Augustus Brandt Gallery in Petworth is hosting a Silversmiths exhibition called Living Silver: Contemporary Silver for the Home, dedicated to showcasing the technically skilled work of British silversmiths in partnership with Contemporary British Silversmiths (CBS). This exhibition will pay homage to Britain’s lead in the field of contemporary silversmithing, both design and manufacture. The exhibition also aims to show how homes, both contemporary and traditional in design, can be enhanced by a piece of...
Leading London silver dealer Koopman Rare Art is presenting an outstanding, rare group of early antique silver plus the highly important, Royal George IV, silver-gilt masterpiece The Shield of Achilles at TEFAF (The European Fine Art Fair) in Maastricht. The highly historic and impressive silver-gilt shield, which bears the Royal Arms of Ernst Augustus, Duke of Cumberland and King of Hanover (1771-1851), is one of the main focal points on the stand of Koopman Rare Art...
