The Magazine Antiques articles from June 2006

The Magazine Antiques archives from June 2006

English silver in Russia.
June 1, 2006... Many years ago the eminent silver dealer Eric Shrubsole stated that one of the most important and best-documented collections of Elizabethan silver was in what was then the Soviet Union. He lamented that it would remain largely unknown to...

A royal porcelain manufactory.
June 1, 2006... In the eighteenth century European monarchs not only patronized the decorative arts but also owned workshops and factories that produced luxuries that furnished their royal residences and the houses of the nobility. Their patronage was...

Ever-fashionable white.
June 1, 2006... Today, with literally thousands of shades of color to choose from, white is still the most popular color in an interior designer's arsenal. This is nothing new, since in the nineteenth century American white-work textiles, print-work...

Shells.(Brandywine River Museum )
June 1, 2006... Since the early seventeenth century exotic shells from the warm waters of the Pacific and the Caribbean fascinated learned and affluent Europeans. In Germany, for example, skilled and imaginative goldsmiths crafted exquisite settings for...

Museum accessions.
June 1, 2006... The home of the Ingram family for three hundred years, Temple Newsam House, in Leeds, has one of the finest collections of decorative arts in England, much of it once owned by the Ingram family. Recently, two extraordinary nineteenth-century...

Heavenly bodies.(Brief article)
June 1, 2006... Burghley House was built near Stamford, Lincolnshire, between 1555 and 1587 for Elizabeth I's lord high treasurer, William Cecil, first Baron Burghley, and it is still occupied by his descendants. The house is open to the public daily in the...

French stained glass.(Brief article)
June 1, 2006... Lille, in northern France, lies close to the Belgian border. As a center of the textile trade, it has flourished both economically and artistically, and over the centuries it has grown in size and importance. The nineteenth century was a period...

Soane's magician.(Joseph Michael Gandy)(Brief article)
June 1, 2006... Joseph Michael Gandy was a prodigy born in 1771 into a poor family. His early drawings impressed James Wyatt, the architect of White's Club in London at which Gandy's father was a waiter, and he took on the boy as a pupil. The Royal Academy...

British collectors of van Gogh.(Vincent van Gogh)(Brief article)
June 1, 2006... The British public first encountered Vincent van Gogh at Manet and the Post-Impressionists, an exhibition organized by Roger Fry and held at the Grafton Galleries in 1910. Reaction to the show could be summarized by the newspaper headline on...

Dollhouses.(The Small World of Antique Dolls' Houses)(Book review)
June 1, 2006... Flora Gill Jacobs began collecting dollhouses in 1945, and soon thereafter she started writing books about them. In 1975 she established the Washington Dolls' House and Toy Museum in Washington, D. C., which functioned until 2004, when, at the...

Calendar.(Art exhibitions and symposiums)(Calendar)
June 1, 2006... The arts here and abroad--a compendium of exhibitions, symposiums, and lectures California LONG BEACH Long Beach Museum of Art: "Art & Tradition: Design at Wedgwood in the Twentieth Century"; to August 6.* [??] "Greene & Greene in...

Antiques.
June 1, 2006... ... where there is no Law, there is no Freedom. John Locke, The Two Treatises of Government..., 1689-1690 In his Commentaries on the Laws of England, William Blackstone called the English in the middle of the eighteenth century "a...

English furniture in the Philadelphia Museum of Art.(Cover story)
June 1, 2006... The Philadelphia Museum of Art is an imposing porticoed building that rises majestically on its granite hill at the end of the Benjamin Franklin Parkway. Historically, the museum is the legacy of the United States Centennial Exposition held in...

Tudor and early Stuart banqueting houses.
June 1, 2006... A variety of ornamental buildings are associated with the eighteenth-century English landscape garden, including classical temples, grottoes, rustic seats, and hermitages. Many of these forms were initially introduced into English gardens in...

Durr Freedley: an American master in an English art.
June 1, 2006... Many of our people have already seen the beautiful white Frontlet, Burse and Veil which have been given for the Chapel of All Saints and have been in use during the Easter season. They furnish an example of the highest possibilities of Church...

Wedgwood, Boulton, and Henry Hoare II: patronage of the antique taste at Stourhead.
June 1, 2006... Henry Hoare II, or "Henry the Magnificent" as he was known to his family, was an exemplary patron of the arts and an astute customer of Britain's most innovative entrepreneurs of his day (Fig. 3). (1) A scion of the founder of Britain's oldest...

English glass furnishings for Eastern palaces.
June 1, 2006... In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, many European manufacturers were seeking world markets, and many Asian countries were eager for Western goods. As early as 1790, John Blades, a London glass cutter, was supplying...

"Fables and fruit-trenchers teach as much": English banqueting trenchers, c. 1585-1662.
June 1, 2006... When William Harrison (1535-1593) described increasingly luxurious English customs in 1587, he recalled a great increase in living standards during his lifetime, "wherein gold and silver most aboundeth." He wrote of "marvelously altered" houses...

Calendar of shows.(Calendar)
June 1, 2006... June 9-11. Atlanta, Ga. SCOTT ANTIQUE MARKET. Held on the second weekend of every month. Show hours: Friday and Saturday, 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.; Sunday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Admission: $3, good for the whole weekend. Location: Atlanta Expo Centers. For...

Voysey wallpapers and fabrics.(Design notes)(Charles Francis Annesley Voysey)
June 1, 2006... As the saying goes, one thing leads to another. Just shy of twenty-five years ago when David E. Berman, the founder of Trustworth Studios in Plymouth, Massachusetts, began making reproductions of furniture designed by Charles Francis Annesley...