Pewter from the Middle Ages to Art Nouveau

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• Johann Daniel Sommer's Heidelberg table, 1684

  Look for fine engraving, inlaid pewter wire and transparent horn painted from behind, set into tortoiseshell; it and a mirror crest are all that survived the war of a set made for Heidelberg Castle.

• François Briot's Temperantia basin

  Temperance sits in a central medallion, the four elements fill the cartouches and the seven liberal arts with Minerva run round the rim; later casts of this dish became a Wimbledon trophy.

• The stave tankards

  Wooden tankards caged in openwork pewter, the silver-grey metal set deliberately against dark brown wood; pewterers needed coopers to make them, mostly in Franconia and Thuringia.

• The Basel guild buffet

  A huge sideboard from the great hall of Basel's Saffron Guild, built to show off its tableware, most of which the guild melted down in 1767.

• Art Nouveau Britannia metal

  Pieces by WMF, Orivit and J.P. Kayser & Sohn in a hard alloy from Sheffield that, polished, was barely distinguishable from silver: pewter's last flourish.

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