The Magazine Antiques articles from June 2003

The Magazine Antiques archives from June 2003

Current and coming.(exhibitions)
June 1, 2003... Chatsworth's collection travels The great country house Chatsworth in Derbyshire is one of best-known properties in England. It is admired around the world for its baroque architectural scheme, beautifully landscaped gardens and parks,...

Museum accessions.(glassware, furniture, silverware)(Biography)
June 1, 2003... The cut-glass and ormolu fantasy illustrated at right once rose in the center of a surrounding field of cakes and puddings on an eighteenth-century dessert table. It too was heaped with candied fruits, nuts, crystallized edible flowers, and, in...

Report from Europe.(exhibitions)(Biography)
June 1, 2003... Whistler centenary James McNeill Whistler was born in Lowell, Massachusetts, in 1834 and died in London in 1903. Eight years of his youth were spent in Russia where his father worked as a consultant for building the railroad from Saint...

Rosemary Cook. (Haley & Steele).(Brief Article)
June 1, 2003... May 15th - June 10th Haley & Steele is pleased to announce Rosemary's first one-woman exhibition in the USA. Rosemary's sculpture of animals represents a response to individual character. The essence of her work is to capture the...

Books about antiques.(Furniture History in Miniature)(Book Review)
June 1, 2003... Furniture history in miniature In 1660 Charles II was crowned I in England after a decade of exile in Fiance, his mother's homeland. He brought back with him a strongly Francophile court and a taste for luxury and pleasure that was a...

Calendar.(art exhibits)(Calendar)
June 1, 2003... The arts here and abroad--a compendium of exhibitions, symposiums, and lectures Arizona PHOENIX Phoenix Art Museum: "Vital Forms: American Art and Design in the Atomic Age, 1940-1960"; to June 29.* California BERKELEY...

Antiques.(English antiques)
June 1, 2003... ... English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious Samuel Johnson, Lives of the Poets, 1779-1781 The United Kingdom of Great Britain was formed as a nation in 1707 with the passage in Parliament of the Act of...

English furniture at the Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens.
June 1, 2003... The distinguished collections at the Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens in San Marino, California, have been well known since Henry Edwards Huntington (1850-1927) established the museum in 1919 in what had been his...

Engraved Jacobite glasses.
June 1, 2003... The use of engraved drinking glasses to express political, religious, or dynastic allegiances became increasingly popular in eighteenth-century Britain. As material culture, such glasses offer an insight into a society transforming itself in...

William Bradford and the royal touch.(Biography)
June 1, 2003... William Bradford (Pl. III), a painter of marine and Arctic scenes, arrived in London in May 1871 with two paintings commissioned by James Ashbury (1834--1895), an English yachtsman with a large fortune. Ashbury had come to New York City the...

English pewter at Colonial Williamsburg.
June 1, 2003... By the time of the early colonization of North America in the first half of the seventeenth century, pewter was the metal of choice for many household goods in England. Its bright appearance, ease and safety of transport, and durability rapidly...

Derby Porcelain: The work of floral and botanical artists, 1790-1805.
June 1, 2003... The beauty of the natural world has had a particular significance for European artists since the me of Caravaggio (1571-1610), and the study of flowers and plants is as important to our understanding of the history of art as it is to our...

Calendar of shows.(antique shows)(Calendar)
June 1, 2003... The Magazine ANTIQUES, Calendar of Shows for June 2003 May 29-June 1. Bridgehampton, Long Island, New York. 12th ANNUAL HAMPTON'S SPRING GARDEN ANTIQUES SHOW & SALE. Bridgehampton community House, Montauk Highway. East End Hospice Benefit...

Garden furniture. (Design Notes).(Henry Hall Designs)
June 1, 2003... Carrying seating furniture outside in order to enjoy temperate weather and garden vistas in comfort was a common practice in earlier times, and we know that wicker furniture, being light and portable, served this purpose in ancient Egypt....