Treasures from Faraway: Medieval and Renaissance Objects from The Schroder Collection
Strawberry Hill House and Garden,
Twickenham
19th March–19th July
Treasures from Faraway: Medieval
and Renaissance Objects from
The Schroder Collection
Strawberry Hill House and Garden,
Twickenham
19th March–19th July |
:
Illustrations
Western art unattributed:
4. Cup in the
form of an owl.
Germany, 1556.
Silver, parcelgilt
and coconut
shell, height 16.6
cm. (Schroder
Collection;
photograph
Matt Chung).
Western art unattributed:
5. Grandmont
reliquary. Rock
crystal phial,
10th–11th century,
mounts probably
Meuse-Rhine
region, 12th or
early–13th century.
Silver-gilt, enamel,
gemstones and
rock crystal, height
27.5 cm. (Schroder
Collection;
photograph
Matt Chung).
Western art unattributed:
6. Lidded
tankard. Ivory
barrel, German,
seventeenth
century, silver
mounts supplied
by George
Wickes, London,
1739. Silver and
ivory, height 29.5
cm. (Schroder
Collection;
photograph Matt
Chung).