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Secular Goldsmiths' Work in Medieval France
This study by Mr. R.W. Lightbown is the product of considerable research and deals with the gold and silver secular plate of medieval France from the historical, antiquarian, artistic and iconographical standpoints. It contains a corpus of all the surviving examples, bringing out the central role played by France in the history of Gothic art and medieval social life.
The French Jeweller
Born in France in 1765, Ferdinand Meurant became a skilled jeweller and goldsmith. In Ireland in the late 1790's, he and John Austen, an Engraver, forged a large number of Irish Bank Notes. On discovery of their crime they were sentenced to Life Imprisonment which was commuted to Transportation for Life to the Colony of New South Wales. His trade allowed him to be one of Sydney's first two jewellers and enabled him to fast-track his way to freedom. The jewellery he made for Mrs Josepha King, the wife of the Governor, caused claims of outrage and resulted in two men being sent to prison on Norfolk Island. Ferdinand Meurant abandoned his wife and two sons in Ireland: in the Colony of New South Wales, his assigned servant, sixteen year old Mary Pritchard, became his common-law-wife. At the age of forty-six, he married fifteen year old Rosetta Martin. He lived in the Sydney region from 1800 to 1844 and for the last twenty years of his life, he was a farmer at Prospect.
Beyond the Border
Beyond the Border sets the lives and work of Huguenot goldsmiths in the context of the different societies in which they lived and worked. Contributor Michele Bimbenet Privat examines the lives and work of Huguenot goldsmiths in France during the times of tolerance of the Protestant religion in the 16th and 17th centuries. She explains how Protestant craftsmen dominated regional centers but found establishing a presence in the metropolis more challenging. Contributor Jet Pijzel-Dommisse charts the influence of the Louis XIV style on the leading Dutch goldsmiths in the late 17th and 18th centuries and demonstrates that, in contrast to London, first generation Huguenot goldsmiths played only a...
