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Issue
Voysey in America: An Arts & Crafts Floor Tile Discovery
Summer 2001
The grand house of oil baron Lafayette Hughes was designed in the Mediterranean style by the prominent Denver
An Important Rococo Mahogany
Early Spring 2001
In three sections: the upper section with removable scrolled pediment with elaborate ruffle, foliate carving, and carved rosette terminals with dependent...
Chippendale Cherrywood Flat-Top Chest-On-Chest
Early Spring 2001
The cabinetmaker Bates How, born in Canaan (Litchfield County), Connecticut, in 1776, is best known...
Relief Portrait of Benjamin Franklin
Early Spring 2001
At 71 years of age, Benjamin Franklin embarked on the most important adventure of his long and illustrious career...
Sarah Moorhead Canvaswork Picture
Early Spring 2001
Very few early Boston canvas-work pictures can be linked to a particular teacher or maker since such work was rarely signed...
The Largest Recorded Book Of Hours
Early Spring 2001
This hitherto unknown book was one of the major commissions of Dutch manuscript illumination in the second half of the fifteenth century...
William Trost Richards, The Wood Path
Early Spring 2001
The most meticulous artist of his generation, William Trost Richards, along with some of his associates, so far transcended the draughtmanship...
An Applique Rug With A Star-Studded Menagerie Of Animal Silhouettes
Jan/Feb 2000
This applique rug is constructed of black wool cut-out animal shapes embroidered and outlined in bright wool stitches...
George II Carved Giltwood Console Table
Jan/Feb 2000
As a student at the London College of Furniture in the early 1970s, I developed a friendship with a woodcarver...
Queen Anne Walnut Bonnet-Top High Chest
Jan/Feb 2000
This high chest is related stylistically to a group of high chests with similar proportions and scooped drawers made in the Boston area...
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