Word: silversmithing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...NORMAN SILVERSMITH...
...Common. Tremont Street, he says, that must be it. But no, there just doesn't seem to be a main street. Aside from the few movie house and stores on one side only, the heart of this city seems bordered by a white-steepled church, a charming silversmith shop, and rows of stately bay-windowed townhouses. Why it's--and then he realizes that he is standing at the heart of the biggest small town in America. No matter what the brochures say about the New Boston, he knows this small town atmosphere instinctively and likes...
...expatriated themselves to study in England and to absorb the classic mastery of Renaissance portraiture. John Singleton Copley was one such, but before he left U.S. shores, he had already put together a masterly portrait gallery of some of his fellow Bostonians. His Portrait of Nathaniel Hard, a famed silversmith and engraver, stares back at the observer with a keen, curious, probing intensity that is uncannily lifelike. As John Adams said of Copley's portraits: "You can scarcely help discoursing with them, asking questions and receiving answers...
...Museum of the City of New York, that orderly attic of Manhattan, is currently showing the work of 13 silversmiths of the colonial period. New York was full of wealthy merchants; as a contemporary historian pointed out in 1692: "This town is much richer than Boston. Its municipal currency consists of Spanish coin." But coin is cumbersome wealth; the merchants found it more practical to take the money to a reliable silversmith and have it melted down and fashioned into useful-and visible-objects...
...visitors. Onckelbag's bowl with graceful curved handles is 12 in. wide and is ornamented with a floral design showing a strong Scandinavian influence; inside the base are the Twyford family arms. The porringer was made by Jurian Blanck Jr.. New York's first native-born silversmith. Also on display...