Christopher Hartop
 

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A Charles I parcel-gilt silver recusant chalice, c. 1630

 
  Lectures by Christopher Hartop   
  Recent Lectures

  • ‘Cross-Currents in English and French Silver, 1660-1820’
    Detroit Institute of Arts
    Detroit, Michigan
    February 2009

  • ‘Buying Silver in Eighteenth-Century London’
    Minneapolis Institute of Arts
    Minneapolis, Minnesota
    October 2008

  • ‘Cross-currents in English and Portuguese Silver, 1500-1900’
    II Colóquio Português de Ourivesaria
    Universidade Católica Portuguesa
    Oporto
    September 2008

  • ‘The Elegant Table: Silver for Food and Wine, 1600-1900’
    The Grossberg Lecture: Metropolitan Museum of Art
    New York, New York
    April 2008

  • ‘The Elegant Table: Silver for Food and Wine, 1600-1900’
    The Art Institute of Chicage, Chicago, Illinois
    April 2008

  • ‘Nature and the Silversmith: Two ‘‘Cabinets of Curiosities’’ in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries’
    Hartford Atheneum
    Hartford, Connecticut
    May 2007

  • ‘Sir Robert Walpole and the Building of Houghton Hall’
    The Newport Symposium
    Newport, RI

    April 2007

  • ‘At Home and on the Road: Plate Chests and Private Plate Rooms’
    Furniture History Society Conference
    Victoria & Albert Museum,
    London
    March 2007

  • ‘Setting the Silver Standard: British and Continental Silver in America, 1638-2006’
    Brilliant Silver Seminar
    San Antonio Museum of Art,
    San Antonio, Texas
    February 2006

  • ‘British Silver in America,
    1638-2006’
    Henry D. Green Symposium of the Decorative Arts
    Georgia Museum of Art
    Athens, Georgia
    February 2006

  • ‘Patrons or Consumers? Buying Rococo Silver in Eighteenth-Century London’
    The Line of Beauty: Rococo Silver in England and Its Colonies
    Virginia Museum of Fine Arts,
    Richmond, Virgina
    October 2004

  • ‘Sir Nicholas Bacon and the Bacon Cups’
    Silver in East Anglia Symposium
    Norwich Castle Museum & Art Gallery
    October 2004

 
 

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