Christopher Hartop
 

Important Charles II Silver Maiden-Form Wager Cup
Maker’s mark a hound sejant for Richard Blackwell II
London, c. 1665.

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Christopher Hartop has been an independent art adviser since 1999. He has nearly thirty years’ experience in the antique silver world.

He has negotiated some of the most significant private sales in recent years, including acquisitions by the National Trust, the Royal Ontario Museum and the Victoria & Albert Museum.

A prolific author on silver, his book  The Huguenot Legacy: English Silver 1680-1760  was awarded the 1997 National Huguenot Society Prize for the best original work of Huguenot scholarship. In 2005 he curated the exhibition Royal Goldsmiths: The Art of Rundell & Bridge 1797-1843, which included loans from the Royal Collection, the Victoria & Albert Museum, the Devonshire Collection at Chatsworth and Arundel Castle. His most recent books are: A Noble Feast, British and Irish Silver in the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University and Geometry and the Silversmith.

 
Juliet Nusser is the co-author of Collecting Silver: The Facts at Your Fingertips, 1999 and a contributor to The Art of Drinking, V&A Publications, 2007.

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