The collection of baroque and rococo silver dates from the 17th and 18th centuries and completes the museum’s holding, which stretches from the 16th to 20th centuries.
Highlights of the collection include a pair of soup tureens and stands, 1740-41 and 1768-69 made for Simon Harcourt, later Ambassador to France.
Major silver collection to go to Boston
THE Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts has acquired one of the world’s most important collections of English Silver, that of Alan and Simone Hartman.
