The Magazine Antiques articles from August 2001

The Magazine Antiques archives from August 2001

Chinese portraiture.(antiques)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2001... A byzantine tale lies behind the current exhibition of ancestral Chinese portraits on view at the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery in Washington, D.C. through September 9. The players are Richard G. Pritzlaff, an uncouth and irascible New Mexican...

Maryland quilts.(antiques)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2001... Maryland has a long and rich tradition of quiltmaking, which reached its apogee with the appearance of the Baltimore album quilt in the mid-nineteenth century. The earliest known quilts (of which few survive) were made in and around the coastal...

Britisk campaign furniture.(antiques)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2001... Every so often an article published in this magazine becomes the foundation for a book or an exhibition. This is the case on both counts for Nicholas A. Brawer, whose two-part article about British campaign furniture appeared in our June and...

Museum accessions.(Brief Article)
August 1, 2001... At some point, probably in the late fifteenth century a sailing vessel laden with trade ceramics sank in the treacherous waters known locally as the Dragon Sea off Cu Lao Cham Island, in the region of Hoi An, an ancient Vietnamese trading port....

Two golden ages.(Dutch art from the seventeenth century in exhibition)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2001... The so-called golden age of Dutch art took place in the seventeenth century. The names of its artists are well known even to those who are not particularly interested in the subject: Frans Hals, Pieter de Hooch, Jan Vermeer, and Rembrandt...

The Louvre in the seventeenth century.(artifacts found during excavations will be exhibited)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2001... Now full of works of art, the Louvre is also the setting for much of French history. The first palace on the site was built at the end of the twelfth century as a fortress, arsenal, and repository for jewels, illuminated manuscripts, and other...

London summer openings.(Houses of Parliament and parts of Buckingham Palace)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2001... The traditional long summer vacation taken by official London means that the Houses of Parliament and parts of Buckingham Palace are open to the public on a very limited basis. The Houses of Parliament make their home in the Palace of...

James Stuart, the Old Pretender.(king of England in the eighteen century)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2001... prince James Francis Ed-Stuart (or Stewart), the son of the Catholic James II of Great Britain, was born in Saint James's Palace, London, in 1688. It was clear that he would be raised a Catholic, but in the year he was born, William of Orange...

London gardens.
August 1, 2001... Most gardens in London are proportionately as small as The London Town Garden, 1700-1840 is sweeping in its scope. The author sets out his goal as follows: "In analysing the role which small gardens assumed in defining personal space, this book...

ANTIQUES.(sports in England in the seventeenth century)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2001... Our pleasure likewise is, Our good people be not disturbed, letted, or discouraged from any lawful recreation, Such as dancing, either of men or women, Archery for men, leaping, vaulting, or any other such harmlesse, Recreation, nor from having...

Winslow Homer and the critics in the 1870s.(painter)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2001... When Winslow Homer exhibited Prisoners from the Front (Pl. II) at the National Academy of Design in New York City in 1866, the thirty-year-old Boston native received the highest praise of any artist in the exhibition. [1] Such success was quite...

EARLY GOLF CLUBS AND BALLS.
August 1, 2001... FORE! A version of the Royal and Ancient Game, as golf is officially known, appears to have been played in Britain as early as the fourteenth century (see P1. IV), but it developed into its recognizable form in Scotland probably in the...

ANATOMY OF AN ACQUISITION.(the Met acquires the Ann and Philip Holzer Collection)
August 1, 2001... Just this month the permanent display of the arts of pre-revolutionary New England in the American Wing of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City has been greatly enriched by a selection of treasures from the Ann and Philip Holzer...

Lower East Side Tenement Museum, New York City.(antiques)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2001... "The tenement is the the basic facade in New York, the face of the slums, a slab of tombstone proportions, four to six stories pocked by windows," [1] Since the mid-nineteenth century successive waves of American immigrants have made their...

The Photograph Collection of the Larchmont Yacht Club.(antiques)
August 1, 2001... As the story goes, it was in May 1880 that five young yachtsmen beached their boat at Horseshoe Harbor in Larchmont, New York. It was cold and stormy and they built a fire for warmth, wishing that they could find a pub. Out of frustration they...

Dining in eighteenthcentury Williamsburg.(Colonial Williamsburg, Virginia)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2001... While Colonial Williamsburg is celebrating its seventy-fifth anniversary this year, one of its buildings--the King's Arms Tavern--is marking its fiftieth. The tavern was rebuilt on its original foundations in 1951, like numerous other...