The Royal Gold Cup – an object for the nation
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Tuesday 6 December 2022
(5pm) - Online Zoom Event, link details will be emailed to attendees on the morning of the event
- Lecturer: Neil Stratford
In 1892 the British Museum acquired the cup, one of the great French masterpieces of the fourteenth century. The lecture will examine the massive enamelled gold cup and its techniques, as well as its extraordinary history, from the Valois court, first recorded in 1391, to England, to Spain in 1604, to Paris in 1883, where it was considered a fake and bought by Baron Pichon, ending up with Franks in the British Museum.
Lecturer
Dr Neil Stratford is a Medievalist. BA at Magdalene College, Cambridge University; continued study at the Courtauld Institute in 1963 working on a dissertation (never completed) on the Romanesque sculpture at the Church of La Madeleine, Vézelay. Keeper of Medieval and Later Antiquities, British Museum, 1975-1998. His work on Vézelay and Saint-Lazare d’Autun resulted in a more precise chronology of those sculptural monuments. He is a member of the French Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres and Professor Emeritus of the École nationale des chartes. Neil has recently published a monograph on the cup in French, published by the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres in Paris.
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