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Renaissance princes, both temporal and spiritual, commissioned works in silver, silver-gilt, and gold. Since these objects served a number of roles including diplomacy, bribery, and as status symbols, practicality was not always at the forefront of their design. If possible, precious stones, crystal, and enamels were incorporated in the works to make an even bigger impression.
During the various upheavals that plagued Europe from the seventeenth to the early twentieth century, many members of the European nobility and clergy were forced to part with their valuable objects. In the nineteenth century, new collections of these works were formed, one of which was assembled by an Anglo-German banking family, the Schroders. Although some works from the Schroder Collection have been included in other exhibitions over the years, as a whole it has not been on public view for a long time. Renaissance Silver from ...
Source: HighBeam Research, Renaissance silver.(Report from Europe)(exhibit)(Brief article)