The Olympic Torch
Designed by Bernard Cuzner
Date: 1948
Usually date of exhibition rather than production
Object class: hollowware
Object type: trophy
Material: metal - silver
Description: This piece is hand-made. The octagonal sides have chased panels of oak leaves and acorns and rose briars. Crowned leopards' heads decorate the base of the pierced and chased finial. The shaft is engraved.
Notes: Made for the Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths to mark the fourteenth Olympiad held in London in 1948.
Makers, Owners and Exhibitors
Commissioned by The Goldsmiths' Company
1948
To mark the XIV Olympiad held in London in 1948
Sources
The Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths as patrons of their craft 1919-53
1965
cat. no. 69
Treasures of the Twentieth Century: silver, jewellery and art medals from the 20th century collection of the Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths
2000
p. 61, cat no. 141
Citing this record
'The Olympic Torch', Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain and Ireland 1851-1951, University of Glasgow History of Art and HATII, online database 2011 [http://sculpture.gla.ac.uk/view/object.php?id=ann_1283292959, accessed 30 Sep 2023]
