Sentence examples for colonial silver from inspiring English sources

North American colonial silver is distinguished for its simplicity and graceful forms, copied or adapted from English silver of the period.

On the other hand, the colonial silver of Mexico, Brazil, Colombia, Peru, Chile, and Bolivia, while European in concept, shows a blending of Iberian designs and forms, with indigenous influences that trace back to pre-Hispanic times.

A 1932 Town & Country article remarked, "What is true of architecture is true of everything, from skyscrapers to Ernest Hemingway," and praised Tiffany & Company updates of Colonial silver as "quiet, mannerly pieces of solid virtues which can be used with decorum in a room... which is content to rest on the accomplishments of the English Georgian period".

In addition to Aztec, Mixtec and other pre-Columbian art, Spanish colonial silver and altarpieces and contemporary Latin American painting, the Rockefeller wing owns a riotously uninhibited collection of Mexican folk art, including dozens of masks, an elegant crane fashioned from a gourd and brightly colored ceramic churches, trucks, trains and planes.

Worn Spanish colonial silver pieces were then commonly used as money throughout the United States.

The Flying Eagle cent was issued in exchange for worn Spanish colonial silver coins, which until then had circulated widely in the United States.

Octavio tablecloth at Brunschwig & Fils Inc. Tiffany & Company colonial sterling silver tray.

In Colonial times, silver making was the trade closest to the fine arts, wrote the scholar Barbara McLean Ward in an essay in a 1979 catalog published in connection with a major exhibition of silver partly organized by the Yale gallery.

In the colonial era, silver from the mines of Potosí provided Spain with the wealth that allowed it to forge a global empire, and in modern times, tin made a few families, like the Patiños, fabulously wealthy.

In the same catalog, the scholar Martha Gandy Fales wrote, "In the colonial period silver represented a fine art in the new country and progressed more rapidly and with greater patronage than the arts of architecture, painting or sculpture".

The colonial ceramics, silver and furniture are splendid, its home in a 16th-century hospital has been sensitively restored, and the cafe in the crisply formal cloister garden is one of the nicest places to eat in Mexico City.