AN AMERICAN SILVER MEAT PLATTER

Recommended features

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  • The tastemaker: Frank de Biasi’s Rockefeller selections

    The New York City-based interior designer selects his favourite pieces from the Rockefeller Collection

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  • ‘Had she been a man she could have commanded an army’

    An in-depth profile of Abby Aldrich Rockefeller, wife, mother, influential patron of modern art and co-founder of MoMA

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  • Benjamin Franklin’s sword — A symbol of friendship, democracy and progress

    Descendants of the man to whom Franklin presented his sword discuss this remarkable emblem of friendship between nations

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  • I bought it at Christie’s

    Celebrity estate agent Josh Flagg on how he acquired a gilt mirror and other treasures formerly owned by Betsy Bloomingdale

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  • Polished performers

    ​Four contemporary silversmiths — hailing from China, Belgium, Britain and Japan — who have harnessed ancient techniques to their own distinctive styles

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  • Live like a Rockefeller — Pablo Picasso’s Pomme

    Jonathan Rendell, Christie’s ’story teller’ for The Collection of Peggy and David Rockefeller, looks at a painting that gives him ‘goose-bumps’

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  • Virtual tour: Post-War and Contemporary Art at Christie’s Amsterdam

    Discover CoBrA, Basquiat, Polke and more at De Westergasfabriek in Amsterdam