The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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New York, New York 10028-0198
Gallery 521
BRITISH SILVER
The Wealth of a Nation
15th May 2012 - 20th January 2013
The production of silver in Britain was understood to be the embodiment of the country's prosperity–an outward expression of political stability, taste, and industriousness. This exhibition explores some of the ingredients that made the English silver trade such a vigorous success in the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries. Drawn largely from the Museum's collections, it also includes extraordinary loans from private collectors, including Paul de Lamerie's great rococo coffeepot of 1738 and the justly famous Maynard Dish belonging to the Cahn Family Foundation.
Opening Hours: Tuesday—Thursday: 9:30 a.m.—5:30 p.m. - Friday and Saturday: 9:30 a.m.—9:00 p.m. - Sunday: 9:30 a.m.—5:30 p.m.
Closed Monday (except Met Holiday Mondays), Thanksgiving Day, December 25, and January 1
Admission: $25
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