Commissioning Advice

Commissioning an item of contemporary silver, jewellery or an art medal is a special experience often resulting in a unique work of art.

Honorary expert advice from the Curator is available concerning commissions for silver, jewellery and art medals by leading designer and artist-craftsmen to corporate bodies, ecclesiastical institutions and private clientele wishing to commission significant work.

Although the Goldsmiths' Company can advise on the usual procedures for entering into a contract for a commission, it will not itself become a party to any transaction.

Advice on previous silver commissions has included the ecclesiastical silver for Lichfield Cathedral; the Millennium nave altar silver for York Minster; St Alban’s Abbey; St. Denys Church, Sleaford; Leeds Cathedral,  as well as domestic silver for the Silver Trust for No 10 Downing Street and for Oxbridge Colleges; maces for new universities such as Imperial College, University of Cumbria, Henley College of Business Management; corporate silver for City Livery Companies such as the Mercers, Fishmongers, Grocers, Clothworkers and Ironmongers and ceremonial silver for the Armed Forces, such as the Royal Anglian Regiment. Jewellery commissions have included badges of office and engagement rings.  Art medal commissions have included the prize medals for the Benjamin Britten Violin Competition, Samuel Pepys Tercentenary Award, and the Royal Society of Portrait Painters.