The Magazine Antiques articles from January 2006

The Magazine Antiques archives from January 2006

Americana week in New York City.(Current and coming)
January 1, 2006... When the intrepid Ann Pamela Cunningham founded the Mount Vernon Ladies' Association to rescue George Washington's plantation house on the Potomac River in Virginia, the roof of the riverfront piazza was held up by the masts of old ships. That...

Music and art interwoven.(Current and coming)(history of banjos)
January 1, 2006... That quintessential American musical instrument the banjo is depicted in more than 550 works by American painters printmakers, and photographers, including William Sidney Mount, Thomas Eakins, Mary Cassatt, Norman Rockwell, and Romare Bearden....

And so to bed.(Current and coming)(Dream On: Beds from Asia to Europe of Museum of International Folk Art )
January 1, 2006... Sleep. Teenagers seem to require an endless amount of it, and the elderly cannot get enough of it. Both groups, while otherwise at loggerheads, would probably agree that their night's rest has a good deal to do with the relative comfort of...

Museum accessions.(Mint Museum of Art's ceramic objects and scenic wallpaper )
January 1, 2006... Several things are "new" at the Mint Museum of Art in Charlotte, North Carolina, among them the ceramic objects and scenic wallpaper illustrated here. The wallpaper, a full run of the twenty-five-panel La Chasse de Compiegne, was designed by...

Reunions.(Report from Europe)(Western art, polyptych altarpieces)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2006... Among the earliest paintings in Western art are religious works such as diptych, triptych, and polyptych altarpieces. Over the centuries many of these altarpieces were dismantled and the components separated. Because of a number of recent...

Baroque porcelain.(Report from Europe)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2006... In the mid-eighteenth century there were three European hard-paste porcelain factories of note. The first was established in 1710 at Meissen. The second was founded in Vienna eight years later by Claudius Innocentius du Paquier, a Dutchman who...

Samuel Palmer.(Report from Europe)(landscape paiters)
January 1, 2006... British landscape painting, dominated by John Constable and Joseph Mallord William Turner, was at its height in the early nineteenth century. A somewhat younger practitioner; Samuel Palmer, took a different approach. At an early age he found it...

Six generations of costume.(Report from Europe)(essel family)
January 1, 2006... It is in the nature of some families, like magpies, to keep personal souvenirs and ephemera such as letters, photographs, and clothing. Six generations of the Messel family have done exactly that. The tale begins with the marriage of Marion...

Frontiers of collecting.(Books about antiques)(Book Review)
January 1, 2006... Jewelry containing tiny photographs and fantastical cases now empty of the visiting cards they once contained are frontiers of collecting that have found their passionate advocates. One of the authors of Antique Photographic Jewelry is Patricia...

Visiting card cases.(Books about antiques)(Book Review)
January 1, 2006... No one pays calls any more, whether to drop off their visiting card or actually stay for a visit. For this reason visiting cards and their fanciful cases are now extinct. The cases are now collectors' objects of desire. If such bibelots bring...

Calendar.
January 1, 2006... The arts here and abroad--a compendium of exhibitions, symposiums, and lectures Alabama BIRMINGHAM Birmingham Museum of Art: "A la derniere mode: Eighteenth-Century French Ceramics from the Permanent Collection"; to February 26.* ...

Antiques.(George Washington's modesty)
January 1, 2006... I was struck with General Washington. You had prepared me to entertain a favourable opinion of him, but I thought the one half was not told me. Dignity with ease and complacency, the Gentleman and Soldier look agreably blended in him....

Revisiting Mount Vernon.
January 1, 2006... The Mount Vernon Ladies Association was formed in 1853 to purchase and restore George Washington's house, outbuildings, and grounds. Over the ensuing decades the ladies searched through neighboring estates, contacted members of George and...

Tiffany's buffalo hunt loving cup.(Biography)
January 1, 2006... The remarkable scope and quality of Tiffany and Company's work in the late nineteenth century quickly established it as the leader of the international silver trade. Its articulate and inventive treatment of the revival styles of the era and...

The dream of a golden age--Danish Empire furniture.
January 1, 2006... The first half of the nineteenth century is considered Denmark's golden age of art and the design of interiors and furniture. (1) The era was looked upon as a harmonious time when people united around values in life that we still think of as...

Fidelle Duvivier in France and the Netherlands.
January 1, 2006... A familiar name in English porcelain literature, Fidelle Duvivier is best known for the landscape vignettes he painted on New Hall porcelain in the late 1780s. His figures, dogs, horses, and rural buildings, often situated next to curiously...

A New York Dutch interior for the American Wing.(Metropolitan Museum of Art)
January 1, 2006... For a loan exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City in 1934, Joseph Downs, the curator of the American Wing, brought together furniture and accessories from early colonial New York. In so doing he acquired for the museum a...

The jeweled watches of Henry Blank and Company of Newark.
January 1, 2006... Like most nineteenth- and early twentieth-century jewelry manufacturers in Newark, New Jersey, Henry Blank and Company until recently had been long forgotten. However, it was one of the largest and most successful Newark firms from the 1890s...

Living with antiques: the Watson house and collection.(D. Ronald Watson)
January 1, 2006... In 1965 Dr. D. Ronald Watson took a memorable trip from his home in the Deep South to Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. There, a truck driver recommended that he visit York to see the renowned antiques dealer Joe Kindig Jr. "Old Joe," Ronald recalls,...

Calendar of shows.(Calendar)
January 1, 2006... January 6-8. Fort Lauderdale, Fla. FORT LAUDERDALE ANTIQUES WORLD 2006. Fort Lauderdale's largest antiques extravaganza with more than 100 international exhibitors. "Antiques World" is distinguished by its many room setting displays, and...

Woven fabrics and trims.(Design notes)(Anna Benson and Neil Warburton's Context Weavers )
January 1, 2006... The first craft guild in England, the Weavers Company of London, was established in the early twelfth century and flourished. By the late nineteenth century the English could produce almost any kind of textile by machine--from Kidderminster,...