Oliver Rackham

Treasures of Silver at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 328
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Dezember 2002
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 260mm x 208mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 930g
• ISBN-13: 9780521818803
• ISBN-10: 052181880X
• Artikelnr.: 29339549

Autorenporträt

Oliver Rackham OBE , FBA has been a Fellow of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, since 1964, and is an historical ecologist and historian of landscape.

Inhaltsangabe

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.