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A set of five ornate silver tea service pieces, including a large urn, two teapots, a creamer, and a sugar bowl, all featuring intricate engravings and decorative handles, arranged on a light gray surface against a dark background.

Crescent City Silver

A comparison of examples from New Orleans’s intermingled French, American, and German silver traditions

Blue background with a white illustration of an ornate silver pitcher. The text at the top reads Crescent City Silver. The pitcher features intricate floral and filigree designs.

Crescent City Silver

HNOC 1980; 2nd printing 2007 
softcover • 8½" x 11" • 148 pp.
242 b&w images
ISBN 978-0-917860-05-8

$15.00

Presenting a comparison of examples from New Orleans’s three intermingled silver traditions—French, American, and German—Crescent City Silver features 130 pieces, by 32 makers, from the holdings of the Historic New Orleans Collection, the Louisiana State University Museum of Art, and several private collections. Originally produced to accompany a 1980 exhibition of nineteenth-century New Orleans silver, Crescent City Silver remains a valuable resource for scholars, collectors, and art enthusiasts.

“For students of material culture, Crescent City Silver whets the appetite for additional publications devoted to other aspects of New Orleans’s rich cultural history.”

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Cover of Complementary Visions of Louisiana Art features a lush, painted landscape with trees and oranges. The text highlights the Laura Simon Nelson Collection at the Historic New Orleans Collection.

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Cover of Furnishing Louisiana: Creole and Acadian Furniture, 1735-1835 by The Historic New Orleans Collection. Features ornate wooden furniture detail with decorative patterns and tassel-like designs.

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