Word: silversmithing
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...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...
...Rubens brought $770,000. But there seems no end to the art-market boom, or limits to its surprises. Last week Sotheby's put up for sale a 168-piece silver service that had never been shown outside Berkeley Castle. It is the work of the great French Silversmith Jacques Roettiers and part of it was probably ordered by the third Earl of Berkeley for the 21st birthday of his son in 1737. Rare and beautiful as it surely is, it fetched a price that astonished even astonishment-proof Sotheby's. After only 2½ minutes of bidding...
...called More Human Than Divine, published in both Spanish and English by the National University of Mexico, tells in print about the laughing people of Remojadas for the first time. Its author: William Philip Spratling. 59, the New York-born architect who settled in Taxco in 1929, opened a silversmith shop, in time became a sort of legend as the man who revived in Taxco the proud craftsmanship of the past...
Elegant & Expensive. Some of the merchandise is elegant and expensive. London Silversmith Gerald Benney, designer of the ciborium for Coventry's new cathedral, offers a squat, modern tea service for $1,080. Harry Hall Ltd., outfitters for sportsmen, has the latest foxhunting outfit for men, including riding whip, for $163. But many items are both stylish and moderately priced. For example, Wedgwood sells a five-piece setting of bone china...
...dawn one morning last week, while most of Baghdad was still asleep, 55-year-old Abdul Rahman, a silversmith, padded down to the Tigris and squatted on the eastern bank. Covering his head with his kaffiyeh, he recited the prayer: "In the name of the Great Life, healing and purity are thine, my Father, their Father, Great Yardna of living water." Then he began his ablutions. First he washed his hands and face and cleaned out his ears, snuffed water from his cupped palm into his nostrils three times, washed his loins, bathed his knees and legs three times, dabbled...