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(Issue Story)The Pottery Industry in Southeastern Massachusetts
The red earthenware manufactured in Bristol County, Massachusetts, in the 18th and 19th centuries has been desired for at least a century now by collectors, dealers, and museums. A combination of factors have contributed to this infatuation, including the refinement of the production, the color of the glazes, and the ... (Read More)
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(Book Review)The Art of the Peales
A Book Review
The Art of the Peales in the Philadelphia Museum of Art: Adaptations and Innovations by ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Letter From London, June 2018
Letter from London
The really big money went on pictures, notably some "Orientalist" paintings and a newly discovered example of canine portraiture, but the most expensive single piece featured in this month's "Letter" is an exceptionally rare Leica camera-though it was actually sold in Vienna, not London.
This month's most pictorial piece ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Tom Wesdorp, Antiques Anonymous, Millerton, New York
In the Trade
Tom Wesdorp calls his business Antiques Anonymous. It is, he said, "A play on Alcoholics Anonymous: you've got to get your fix once you've been bitten by the buying bug."
But the term might also apply to him-and to dealers like him-in another sense. Although Wesdorp is hardly "anonymous," ... (Read More)
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(Show)Brandywine River Museum of Art Antiques Show
Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania
On Memorial Day weekend, May 25-28, the 47th annual Brandywine River Museum of Art Antiques Show filled the courtyard, downstairs galleries, and three floors of the atrium of the old Hoffman's grist mill, built in 1864 and now transformed into a modern art museum.
A brief history of the ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Smith's Memorial Day Auction
William A. Smith, Inc., Plainfield, New Hampshire
Photos courtesy William A. Smith, Inc.
The auction hall was packed to overflowing for William A. Smith's annual Memorial Day auction at the company headquarters in Plainfield, New Hampshire, on May 28. Soaring above all the rest was a dramatic oil on canvas by ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Rococo: Celebrating 18th-Century Design and Decoration
This year marks the 300th anniversary of the birth of Thomas Chippendale (1718-1779), English furniture maker, author of The Gentleman and Cabinet-Maker's Director (1754), and important disseminator of what is commonly known today as the Rococo style. Since the 1840s, the term "Rococo" has been used to describe a variety ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Spring Antiques at Rhinebeck Show
Rhinebeck, New York
Frank Gaglio had a problem. The spring edition of Barn Star Productions' Antiques at Rhinebeck Show was cruising right along-there was good weather and a large crowd, and sales were being made. The fly in the ointment? His on-site shipper had not shown up and was not returning ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Three R.S. Prussia Bowls Reach a Combined $33,000
Three marked R.S. Prussia bowls-each one boasting a portrait and scenic decor of one of the four seasons-sold as individual lots for a combined $33,000 during part one of the sale of the collection of the late John and Lavaun Headlee, held on May 26 by Woody Auction in the ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Exhibitions, June 2018
Black-figure amphora, 675-650 B.C.E., attributed to the Swing Painter (Greek, Attic), terracotta. Virginia Museum of Fine Arts; Adolph D. and Wilkins C. Williams Fund.
-Through July 8 -Richmond, Virginia
The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (VMFA) presents The Horse in Ancient Greek Art. The exhibition was organized in partnership with the National ... (Read More)
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