MICHAEL HALL, PhD and curator of the Rothschild family collections at Exbury in Hampshire, has been Visiting Scholar at the Getty Research institute in Los Angeles and was J. Clawson Mills Fellow at the Metropolitan Museum, New York. He has catalogued the collection of gold boxes at the Huntington Art Gallery in San Marino, California, and writes on French decorative arts and collecting Old Master paintings.
RALPH HOLT specializes in silver and related works of art. Besides English silver from die seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, particularly Paul de Lamerie and Paul Storr, his greatest interest lies in silver of the modern era - Boucheron, Cartier, Tiffany but especially Omar Ramsden. CLARE GIFFORD, PhD and fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and Pathologists, was formerly (under her maiden name, Taylor) a haematology consultant and medical director of the UK haemovigilance system.
She has lately embarked on a new career as managing director of the City Music Foundation. Her husband was elected Lord Mayor of London for 2012-13.
RALPH HOLT specializes in silver and related works of art. Besides English silver from die seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, particularly Paul de Lamerie and Paul Storr, his greatest interest lies in silver of the modern era - Boucheron, Cartier, Tiffany but especially Omar Ramsden. CLARE GIFFORD, PhD and fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and Pathologists, was formerly (under her maiden name, Taylor) a haematology consultant and medical director of the UK haemovigilance system.
She has lately embarked on a new career as managing director of the City Music Foundation. Her husband was elected Lord Mayor of London for 2012-13.
