the Bernward Altar Candle-sticks, made for the Church of St. Mary Magdalen at Hildesheim; and the Gold Cross, set with precious stones, inscribed with his name and date MXV. A Silver Crook, or Episcopal Staff, is also preserved in the Cathedral. A Golden Chalice and Paten, weighing 20 pounds, Censers, and other costly works, are spoken of by his historian, Thangmar, which were melted down in times of distress. XI. cent. Theophilus, a monk, but of what country is unknown— whether of Italy, Germany, or France-wrote an essay, entitled "Diversarum Artium Schedula," in the middle of the XI. century, on Goldsmiths' work, enamels, painting on glass, &c., minutely describing the various processes, and especially treating of Ecclesiastical vessels. His treatise was evidently intended to instruct the monks of other convents how to fabricate and adorn Goldsmiths' work generally, niello and engraving on metal plaques. He was, without doubt, a Goldsmith himself, as well as a worker in glass and painter upon it. 1181 Nicolas of Verdun. The Antependium of Kloster Neuberg. Conrad of Husse. The Grand Chalice of Weingartein in Suabia, executed and signed by him. 1472 Hans Grieff. Enamelled statuette and reliquary. 1482 Heinrich Hofnagel of Augsburg. 1528 Albert Durer. Apprentice of his father, Goldsmith, Nuremberg. Wenzel Jamnitzer of Nuremberg, 1508-1585. 1548 Theodore de Bry. Frankfort. 1583 Christopher Jamnitzer of Nuremberg. XVI. cent. Kellerthaler of Nuremberg. Anton and Franz Schweinberger of Augsburg. 1589 Jonas Silber of Nuremberg. 1595 Daniel Mignot of Augsburg. Silver Images of the Chest of the Dukes of Pomerania, now in the Kunstkammer of Berlin. 1685 Johan Melchior Dinglinger. Ob. 1731. Born 1665. Goldsmith of Augustus. He studied at Augsburg, and settled in Dresden in 1702. Many of his works are preserved there in the Green Vaults. 1734 Johann Andreas Thelot of Augsburg. 1520 Hans Krug or Kruger of Nuremberg. 1440-88 Martin Schongauer (Martin Schöen). Apprenticed to his father, Goldsmith. XVII. cent. Laurent Jans Micker of Amsterdam. 1656 Jean Lutma. Goldsmith of Amsterdam, whose portrait, etched in 1656 by Rembrandt, is well known. BELGIUM. Principally of the XV. century. Goldsmiths to Dukes of Burgundy. 1449 Simon Lachengon of Ghent. 1405 Jean Mainfroy ("Orfevre de Monseigneur "). Duke of Bur 1486 Corneille de Bonte of Ghent. Established in 1472 (A Gothic Silver "Boite aux huiles Saintes," is in the possession of a collector at Ghent), with his punch and date 1486. XV. cent. Van Houten of Ghent. Van Ravenscoot of Ghent. Jean de Cologne. Goldsmith and Architect. XV. cent. Jean de Bry of Tournay. INVOICES OF MESSRS. CHILD AND ROGERS 1685-1687. The following extract from an account of the Earl of Devonshire with Messrs. Child and Rogers, Goldsmiths, Temple Bar, in 1687, may interest some of our readers : £ 8. d. ffor a greate silver cisterne, weight 3,496 oz., at 7s. per oz. 1223 12 0 ffor a case ffor a suger-box, weighing 32 oz., at 7s. per oz. ffor graveing a bason and ewre ffor boyleing the plate, which I sauld at 5s. 8d. per oz. 6 10 0 11 3 3 1 15 0 1 0 0 76 13 0 51 90 ffor 2 ffigures on pedestalls, 164 oz. 10 dwt., at 6s. 8d. per oz. 0 12 0 49 7 0 172 51 16 0 201 17 6 ffor 2 branch candlesticks, 172 oz. 14 dwt., at 6s. per oz. ffor 1 dozen and of silver guilt plates, 475 oz., at 8s. 6d. per oz., is THE HONBLE. CHARLES BERTIE, in account with Messrs. Child and Rogers, 1685. For a punch bowle and cover, guilt all over, weight In one of Alderman 111 15 0 200 1 13 0 Edward Backwell's ledgers (now at Messrs. Childs'), under date 29th April 1670, is a charge for plate supplied to Prince Rupert: To 12 dishes, 4 plates, 3 pairs of candlesticks, 1 pair of candlesticks guilt, 5 dozen plates, 1 sweetmeat stand, 2 cannes, 6 sconces, 24 forks, 24 spoons, 2 sugar casters, 12 salts, 1 pepper box, 1 mustard pot, 2 cruetts, 2 snuffer pans, 2 pairs of suuffers, wey. 272 ozs. 3 dwts. 9 grs., with fashion and engraving £960 3 9 INVOICES OF PAUL DE LAMERIE 1721-1725. 1d. I AM indebted to the kindness of Lieut.-General P. W. Phillipps Treby, R.A., for permission to publish an interesting document which has been preserved in his family. It is an invoice of plate supplied by Paul de Lamerie to the Honble. George Treby, Privy Counsellor and Secretary at War in the time of Queen Anne, and M.P. for Plympton, South Devon, who was son of Sir George Treby, Chief Justice of Common Pleas in 1692, died A.D. 1700. The plate therein described, weighing 4,500 ounces, was charged upwards of £2,000, and delivered in the years 1721 to 1725. A few of these pieces still remain in the family, and will be found noticed in the subjoined list. According to the practice of Goldsmiths at that time, the bill first states the mint price of silver of the new standard, with the duty of 6d. added, amounting to 6s. Then the fashion per ounce, ranging from 8d. to as high as 6s. per oz., according to the labour bestowed upon the piece. The engraving is also charged separately; thus, for engraving the coat of arms on a salver, the charge was £8 8s. Two double salts, weighing only 27 ozs. 10 dwts., amount to £8 14s.; the fashion being £8 8s. Gilding was an expensive operation, and cost 2s. 6d. per oz. This will account for the superiority perceptible in old gilding as compared with that of the present day, which from its beauty and durability may be called plating with gold, rather than washing or that process now so economically accomplished called electro gilding, just as the contrast is noticed between the fine old Sheffield silver plating and the modern Birmingham system of gilding and silvering by the electro deposit. A certain amount of confusion has arisen in attributing to Paul de Lamerie the marks of some other silversmiths. One of these, Pierre Platel, used the same initials, and nearly the same accessories of a crown and star above with a fleur de lis below, between the years 1697 and 1720. By comparing the two marks of Paul de Lamerie and Pierre Platel, the variations are clearly perceptible. The shapes of the escutcheons are different. That of de Lamerie has a semi-circular top and straight sides. That of Platel has a straight wedge-shaped top with concave sides. The letters P.L of de Lamerie have a dot between. The PL of Platel have no dot between. Independent of this, de Lamerie used, according to the Act of Parliament, from 1712 to 1732, on Britannia silver the letters LA. During the same period, Platel used the letters PL, commencing in June 1699, before de Lamerie's time. Platel appears, from the word "dead" being placed against his name in the Goldsmiths' book, to have died about 1720. A Philip Platel, perhaps his son, entered his name in November 1737, but without the crown, rose, or fleur de lisPP within a double scroll. Paul de Lamerie, in June 1739 adopted script letters, PL. Another manufacturer, who appears to have been a spoon maker adopted, by equal right, the letters LA in script under a coronet, not a regal crown, but previous to de Lamerie's time-a certain John Ladyman, who entered his name in 1697, of which specimens are quoted in our list of 1698-1703 and 1704. 1721-1725. Delivred a fyne polished surtout cruette frame, casters, branches and saucers, weighing together 505 oz. 10 dwt., att 6s. 4d. per oz. Fashion 3s. 6d. per oz. Engraving of all For 8 square cristall botles Delivred a lardge silver cupp and cover, weighing 176 oz. 14 dwt., att 6s. 4d. per oz.. £ s. d Delivred 6 dozens of plates and 18 dishes, weighing together 2,355 oz. 11 dwt., att 6s. 2d. per oz. 726 5 10 Fashion 8d. per oz. 78 10 6 22 10 0 161 1 6 12 knifs, 12 spoons, 12 forks for desert, weighing 47 oz. 12 dwt. Fashion of ye knifs, att 5s. each Fashion of ye spoons and forks, att 3s. each 0 12 0 15 1 5 300 3 12 0 |