“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.”
Winterthur Portfolio
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A comparison of examples from New Orleans’s intermingled French, American, and German silver traditions
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.”
Winterthur Portfolio
We asked our audience to tell us the histories of their dearest heirlooms and household objects. They delivered.
Two young scholars comb the archives to research a cabinetmaker, a boatbuilder, and a cooper.
A fine example of early 19th-century furniture, this dresser has a hidden drawer.
A look inside the Williams Residence offers insight into some of the interior decorating styles of the late 1940s and early ’50s, as well as Leila Williams’s personal collecting interests.
Peer into shop windows of the 19th and early 20th centuries.
with essays by William H. Gerdts, George E. Jordan, and Judith H. Bonner
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