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Christopher Hartop has been an independent art adviser since 1999. He has more than thirty years’ experience in the antique silver world, including fifteen at Christie’s, where he was head of the silver and objects of vertu department and later executive vice-president in charge of all specialist departments. He has negotiated some of the most significant private sales in recent years, including acquisitions by the National Trust, the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, 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 and British and Irish Silver in the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University.

Juliet Nusser was for  ten years head of the silver department at Christie’s East. She is the co-author of Collecting Silver: The Facts at Your Fingertips, 1999. She is a contributor to Elegant Drinking, a new Victoria & Albert Museum publication.

Christopher Hartop’s Bibliography: Books

The Dictionary of Art (contributed eleven entries on gold and silver) Grove‘s Dictionaries Inc., New York, 1996 The Huguenot Legacy: English Silver 1680-1760 from the Alan and Simone Hartman Collection Thomas Heneage, London, 1996 winner of the National Huguenot Society Book Prize for 1997 Catalogue of the Portland Art Museum (contributed the silver section) Portland Art Museum, Portland, Oregon, 1996 William Beckford 1760-1844: An Eye for the Magnificent (contributed thirty-five catalogue entries) Yale University Press, 2001 East Anglian Silver: 1550-1750 (editor), John Adamson, Cambridge, 2004 Royal Goldsmiths: The Art of Rundell & Bridge 1797-1843, John Adamson, Cambridge, 2005 A Noble Feast: The Jerome and Rita Gans Collection of English Silver, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in association with John Adamson, Cambridge, 2007 British and Irish Silver in the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University ISBN 978-0300-11770-7, 264 pp., 10 7/8 x 8 1/4 in. (276 x 219 mm), with more than 750 duotone and 8 colour illustrations, Harvard University Art Museums, distributed by Yale University Press, autumn, 2007

Christopher Hartop’s Bibliography: Periodicals

‘An Elizabethan Rarity ’, Christie’s Review of the Season, 1986 ‘The Patiño Collection’, Christie’s Review of the Season, 1987 ‘Gold and Silver of the Atocha and Santa Margarita’, Christie’s Review of the Season, 1988 ‘New Light on Spanish Seventeenth Century Silver’, The Silver Society Journal, Winter, 1990 ‘A Silver Fountain by Giuseppe d’Angelo’, Christie’s Review of the Season, 1990 ‘Silver: An Exceptional Year’, Christie’s Review of the Season, 1991 ‘Paul de Lamerie: Virtuoso or Entrepreneur?’ Christie’s International Magazine, April, 1993 ‘Dining in the Eighteenth Century’, Rotunda, the Magazine of the Royal Ontario Museum, Winter, 1993-4 ‘Admiral George Anson and his Paul de Lamerie Silver’, The Magazine Antiques, June, 1994 ‘The Hanover Chandelier’, Christie’s Review of the Season, 1994 ‘Secrets of Modern Dutch Revealed’, Plum Lines: The Magazine of the Wodehouse Society, vol. XV, no. 2, p. 18 ‘Robert Adam’s Tureens for Sir Watkyn Williams-Wynn’, Christie’s International Magazine, April, 1996 ‘Engraving on English Silver, 1680-1760’, The Magazine Antiques, February, 1997 ‘Art and Industry in Eighteenth Century London’, Proceedings of the Huguenot Society, XXVI (1), 1998 ‘Acquisitions by American Museums’, The Silver Society Journal, Winter, 2000 ‘Connoisseurship in Silver: The Alan and Simone Hartman Collection at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston’, Catalogue of Antiques & Fine Art, Spring 2001/2 ‘The Alan and Simone Hartman Collection of Silver at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston‘, Apollo Magazine, vol. CLIV no. 478 (ns) December 2001 ‘The Artist and the Laird: Alfred Jacob Miller and Sir William Drummond Stewart’, Catalogue of Antiques and Fine Art, Winter, 2001/2 ‘Silver in the Portland Art Museum’, The Magazine Antiques, June, 2002 ‘Gifts to the Tsars’ and ‘The Crown Jewels’ (reviews), The Silver Society Journal, Winter, 2002 ‘Royal Goldsmiths: The Art of Rundell & Bridge 1797-1843’, The Magazine Antiques, June, 2005 top

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