The Magazine Antiques articles from September 2002

The Magazine Antiques archives from September 2002

Mount Holyoke, Massachusetts, "the Paradise of America". (Current and Coming).
September 1, 2002... Jenny Lind, the remarkable Swedish diva who took the United States by storm during a visit in 1851, described the region around Mount Holyoke in the Connecticut River valley as "the Paradise of America" The mountain was the region's central...

Chicanery in earlier times. (Current and Coming).
September 1, 2002... With the proliferation of government regulations affecting every aspect of industry, it is difficult to imagine that rules were relatively recent in medicine and the pharmaceutical industry. Anyone could hang out a doctor's shingle in England...

Chinese ceramics. (Current and Coming).
September 1, 2002... The study of Chinese ceramics is constantly being revised thanks to archaeological activities and new research into primary sources in China, which is being shared with colleagues around the world. However, a type of porcelain known as blanc de...

American watercolors and drawings. (Current and Coming).
September 1, 2002... Because of their sensitivity to light, watercolors and drawings are often among the hidden treasures in museums, exhibited only temporarily if at all. Many of these works, particularly drawings, relate to finished oil paintings and provide...

English ceramics. (Current and Coming).(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... During what must have been a very active twenty-five years of retired life, Harold S. Keller collected some five thousand pieces of English and European porcelain that he bequeathed to the Brooklyn Museum of Art at his death in 1998. Keller was...

Velvet. (Current and Coming).(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... There is considerable debate among textile historians as to where velvet was first woven. For many years it was thought that it originated in the Middle East. However, in 1972, among the many objects found in what is known as Tomb Number One in...

Museum accessions.
September 1, 2002... The wasp waist, achieved with the help of a corset and a tightly cinched belt, became popular at the end of the nineteenth century, coinciding with the emergence of the art nouveau style in the decorative arts. The two came together in the...

Valois furniture at Blois. (Report from Europe).(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... The chateau of Blois on the Loire River was the principal home of Louis XII and Francois I, Kings of France of the Valois dynasty, so it is a fitting setting for an exhibition of furniture made for the Valois in the sixteenth century. ...

Paris biennales. (Report from Europe).(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... From September 20 to 29 about one hundred antiques dealers and several jewelers will exhibit their wares at the Carrousel du Louvre in Paris for the twenty-first Biennale des Antiquaires. Not surprisingly, the largest contingent of exhibitors...

Museum directors. (Report from Europe).(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... A number of important museums in London have changed or are about to change directors. In August, Neil MacGregor replaced Robert Anderson as the director of the British Museum, moving from the National Gallery which he had directed since 1987....

Portraits in Bath. (Report from Europe).
September 1, 2002... In the eighteenth century, no spa was more popular than Bath in southwestern England. At its peak, more than twenty thousand fashionable members of society made their way there each year. The attractions included the Great Pump Room, the...

Walpole paintings return to London. (Report from Europe).(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... Robert Walpole, first earl of Orford, who became Britain's first prime minister in 1721, began to collect paintings in the 1720s. By 1736 he had more than four hundred scattered among his four houses. The impressive list of artists...

Calendar.
September 1, 2002... The arts here and abroad--a compendium of exhibitions, symposiums, and lectures California BERKELEY Berkeley Art Museum: "Micro Painting: The Portrait Miniature"; to December 22. * LOS ANGELES J. Paul Getty Museum: "French...

Antiques.(personal hygiene and changes in social attitudes)
September 1, 2002... You say y' are sweet; how sho'd we know Whether that you be sweet or no? From Powders and Perfumes keep free; Then we shall smell how sweet you be. Robert Herrick, "On a Perfum'd Lady," Hesperides, 1648 Construction of the...

The toilette in the eighteenth century.
September 1, 2002... Between 1875 and 1889, Baron Ferdinand Rothschild (1839-1898) built his country house, Waddesdon Manor, in the style of a French chateau set in the middle of' Buckinghamshire, England. Designed by the French architect Gabriel Hippolyte...

Masterpieces of naturalism: Gorham's Narragansett flatware.
September 1, 2002... Narragansett. To the student of anthropology, this is the name of a tribe of Native Americans of the Algonquin family formerly living in Rhode Island, now almost extinct. To the student of geography, the term refers to Narragansett Bay, an...

The English Victorian Nude in the United States.
September 1, 2002... In late 1857 New Yorkers had the rare privilege of viewing a major exhibition now commonly known as the American Exhibition of English Art. (1) The press greeted the event, which opened at the National Academy of Design on October 20,...

Venetian glass at Stanford University.
September 1, 2002... Early in the twentieth century the Leland Stanford Junior Museum in Palo Alto, California, received three important gifts of late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Venetian blown glass. This collection will be on display from September 18...

History in towns: Hancock, New Hampshire.
September 1, 2002... On June 3, 1779, when the few inhabitants of the recently settled town of Hancock, New Hampshire, petitioned the state legislature for incorporation, they begged to "Inform your Honnours that the tract of land on which we Inhabit...is so good...

Josephine as patroness of the arts.(Empress of France's patronage civilized her husband's court)
September 1, 2002... Josephine de Beauharnais (Pls. III, V), for thirteen years the wife of Napoleon Bonaparte (Pl. IV), is remembered in France and elsewhere as the graceful woman who presided with unfailing charm and finesse over the first court of Europe. That...

Travel guide.(list of antique dealers by state and city)
September 1, 2002... CALIFORNIA Los Angeles BPA COLLECTABLES, INC. AKA LYNNE BEAVERS, 1315 West Pico Blvd., 90015. 7000 sq. ft. warehouse full of architectural artifacts and antiques from Asia, Africa and India. Across the street from the LA Convention...

Design notes.(Zelinda Brunschwig's historical textile collection)
September 1, 2002... In 1880 Achille Brunschwig established a tapestry-weaving business in Aubusson, France, which was successful enough to warrant opening a showroom in New York City in 1925. Achille's son Roger managed the American branch, which by that time had...

Calendar of shows.
September 1, 2002... Calendar of Shows September 2002 September 6-8. Chevy Chase, MD. "A gem of a show", the annual CHEVY CHASE ANTIQUES SHOW will be held September 6-8 at the Women's Club of Chevy Chase, 7931 Connecticut Ave., Chevy Chase, Maryland. Dealers...