Masterpiece Seat
In small masterpieces Olympia International Art
The International Art and Antiques Fair is held each year at the Olympia Exhibition Hall, Kensington, west of London. I attended, as I do every year, excited, hoping to find some little gem. My interest is Chinese art and antiques, I have bought and sold, and collected for over thirty years. I try to visit most of the art and antiques fairs in the United Kingdom and some in Europe and the U.S. each year.
From the point of view of Chinese art Olympia was a disappointment for me. Although I saw some interesting pieces, the objects that I would wanted to buy were too expensive or restored. I was resigned to leave empty-handed. Not only empty-handed, disappointed, because I had not been excited about what he had seen and had walked miles. Exhausted I went to a coffee shop.
Unable to find a seat in the cafeteria, I sat on a long bench in front of a stand selling silver. Although occasionally buy Chinese silver to sell, I've never been interested in collecting silver, always already too bright and need a lot of attention to keep it that way. I rarely look at the stalls of the traders of silver, but as I drank my coffee I looked at the objects this dealer was selling and quickly realized that many of them were much more than silver. Gold, silver vases, jars and large covered cups that looked like pineapples mixed with religious objects: a golden monstrance, a rock crystal cross and various reliquaries. None of these things were normal and were all eighteenth century or earlier.
The man selling these items lifted several pieces of the cabinets, with joy, with information in excellent English with an accent that did not recognize. I looked at the name above support: Peter Szuhay - B59.
Someone asked me the price of a cup of rhinoceros horn with one foot beautiful gold, silver. I know nothing European works of rhinoceros horn-art, so when the potential buyer left and I had finished my coffee, I asked Mr. Szuhay if he so showed me.
We talked about the cup, now standing between us at the top of a cabinet full of jewelry and I find that Mr. Szuhay is Hungarian, has lived in London for over thirty years and has a permanent stand in Grays Antique Market Davies Street in London's West End, near the station of Bond Street underground. He is an expert at the Continental silver and works of art. He showed me various beautiful pieces early silver, mentioning the famous towns of Augsburg and Nuremberg, which has played a Chinese art dealer. He also has an interest in the money later and showed me some 19th century Russian silver and a magnificent 20th century silver fish servers by the Scandinavian master silversmith, Georg Jensen.
I realized that what had initially dismissed as Jewelry, in the window below the cup, was actually a series of beautifully carved stone cameos and carvings. I am used to seeing shells carved into portraits, mounted in brooches, usually from Italy and dating from the mid-nineteenth century until very recently, but these pieces were very different and very exciting.
We were on first name terms and Peter showed me a selection of these carved stones, dating from the late nineteenth century back to Rome in the third century AD. Exquisite, small works of art, some signed by sixteenth century master carvers. We were interrupted and while Peter sold a Chinese silver box, which I had not even noticed was there and went to the other side of the house, where a second window jewelry.
Here was showing, what appeared to be a signet ring group much more common than gold. But when he spoke to me again, Peter put me straight. They were actually English Medieval rings of gold and silver. Some were signet rings were rings or rings other guilds iconography, used by pilgrims and etched with icons of San Cristobal, etc. There were sixteenth and seventeenth century Posy rings: mostly plain gold bands bearing sentiments etched around the inside of the ring, in Olde English. This was a collection area that had never considered. I've never had much interest in jewelry as an adornment, but Peter's jewelry was much more than that - it was sculpture, graphic design and art and everything he had a story and a story attached. These small masterpieces were a revelation to me.
Peter did not buy anything Szuhay in Olympia, although it made my day and gave me something to write. I did however promise to visit your shop in Grays Antique Market and I, and I'm sure I'll buy something from him soon. Pedro also offers a selection of his actions: www.peterszuhay.co.uk
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