Irish Silver from the Seventeenth to Nineteenth Century by the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service and John Teahan

Book Description

Secondhand. Good condition. Wear to book corners and edges, with spine top now protected with book tape.. Foxing to foredges, preliminary and end pages.

A catalogue of Irish silver used a guide for a 1980s US touring exhibition drawn entirely from the permanent collections of the National Museum of Ireland.

The guide features 66 silversmithing works and maps three centuries of historical evolution, tracing how Irish silversmiths absorbed and adapted global movements—such as the Baroque, Rococo, and Neo-Classical periods—while maintaining a distinct cultural identity and highlights the historical context behind some uniquely Irish domestic metalwork innovations.

Beyond the dominant Dublin hallmarking system, the catalogue also serves as an introductory reference tool for understanding the rarer provincial assay and town marks utilized by regional craft guilds operating out of Cork, Limerick, and Galway.