The Magazine Antiques articles from February 2007

The Magazine Antiques archives from February 2007

Asian splendor.(Current and coming)(exhibition of lacquer products at Mother-of-Pearl: A Tradition )
February 1, 2007... Lacquer decorated with inlaid mother-of-pearl is very often spectacular. When treated in such a fashion, simple pieces of furniture, screens, boxes, and trays become highly decorative as well as luxurious. This work is the subject of an...

More lacquer ...(Current and coming)(exhibition of works by Shibata Zeshin)
February 1, 2007... Trained from the age of eleven, first as a lacquerer and later as a painter, Shibata Zeshin became nineteenth-century Japan's foremost lacquer artist. His extensive body of work spans nearly the entire century and includes inro, netsuke, tiered...

Museum accessions.(American Decorative Art 1900 Foundation)(Organization overview)
February 1, 2007... Last year five museums across the country received generous gifts from the American Decorative Art 1900 Foundation, a new organization created to increase appreciation for, and understanding of, American decorative arts of the period between...

American art in Germany.(Report from Europe)(american painting in Hamburg, Germany)(Brief article)
February 1, 2007... The Bucerius Kunst Forum in Hamburg, Germany, is a relatively young art center, founded in 2002. It has no permanent collection but mounts four loan exhibitions annually on a variety of themes. Between 2007 and 2009 and in collaboration with...

Glasgow style in Liverpool.(Report from Europe)
February 1, 2007... Charles Rennie Mackintosh is a household name, and his wife, Margaret Macdonald, is also well known. Less familiar are Margaret's sister Frances and her husband, J. Herbert McNair, who both made a considerable contribution to what became known...

The Bauhaus at eighty.(Report from Europe)(Bauhaus Building )(Brief article)
February 1, 2007... In 1919 Walter Gropius founded a school of architecture and design in Weimar, Germany, the purpose of which was to unite the creative arts and modern technology of the early twentieth century. Among the subjects covered were painting,...

Briefly noted.(Report from Europe)(European Fine Art Fair)(fair by British Antique Dealers' Association)(Brief article)
February 1, 2007... Next month there are two fairs that merit attention. The first is the twentieth European Fine Art Fair (TEFAF), to be held in Maastricht, in the Netherlands, from March 9 to 18. For the first time both Christie's and Sotheby's will be...

Illumination.(Collectors' notes)(lacquer art by William Gibbs )
February 1, 2007... Christiaan J. A. Jorg, a specialist at Leiden University in the Netherlands on East-West interactions in the decorative arts, has kindly shared some perspicacious observations about the early eighteenth-century japanned panels in the Vernon...

Calendar.
February 1, 2007... The arts here and abroad--a compendium of exhibitions, symposiums, and lectures Arizona PHOENIX Phoenix Art Museum: "Fierce Reality: Italian Masters from 17th Century Naples"; to March 4.* [??] "Rembrandt and the Golden Age of Dutch...

Antiques.
February 1, 2007... Not, here! the white North has thy bones; and thou, Heroic sailor-soul, Art passing on thine happier voyage now Toward no earthly pole. Alfred, Lord Tennyson on Sir John Franklin's cenotaph in Westminster Abbey, London, 1875 Beginning...

The new classical galleries in the American Wing at the Metropolitan Museum of art.
February 1, 2007... During the first half of the nineteenth century American architects, artists, and artisans faithfully followed, often in their own distinctive ways, the dictum of the eighteenth-century German archaeologist, scholar, and leader of the classical...

When rakes ruled: French masculine dress of the revolutionary era.
February 1, 2007... European compilers of the great costume history surveys of the mid-to late nineteenth century pointedly featured illustrations that showed significant changes in dress. While education was a primary aim, these authors also intended to entertain...

Charles Willson Peale's portrait of George Washington for the Maryland State House: "something better than a mere coppy".
February 1, 2007... On November 23, 1781, scarcely a month after the British surrender of General Charles Cornwallis (1738-1805) at York-town fulfilled American hopes for independence, the members of Maryland's General Assembly gathered in the State House in...

Icy embellishments: Arctic imagery and the decorative arts.
February 1, 2007... In the summer of 1869, after serving two terms as governor of New York, eleven years as a United States senator, and eight years as secretary of state, William Henry Seward celebrated his retirement from public service with a triumphal tour of...

Calendar of shows.
February 1, 2007... February 9-11. New Bern, NC. 19th ANNUAL NEW BERN PRESERVATION FOUNDATION ANTIQUES SHOW. Over 40 dealers from several states featuring 19th and early 20th century furniture, decorative arts, jewelry, silver, prints, linens, rugs and more; free...

Canton matting.(Design notes)(Canton Reproductions)
February 1, 2007... Straw matting was used on household floors in colonial America. During an extended visit to the colonies in the early 1750s, Israel Acrelius, pastor to the New Sweden congregation on the Delaware River, wrote that "straw carpets have lately...