| Dealer Profile: Patrick Bell and Edwin Hild |
Spring 2003
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It's more than a passing coincidence that Edwin Hild and Patrick Bell opened their shop Olde Hope Antiques on July 4, 1976. The firm is among the foremost resources for great American painted furniture and fine folk art. Even as children the two were prod...
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| Dealer Profile: Philip W. Bradley |
Spring 2003
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Fresh from a Colorado ski trip where he ventured into the backcountry, Philip Bradley is back at his shop in Downingtown, Pennsylvania, surrounded by high chests, tall clocks, bureaus, seating furniture, and related decorative arts. Bradley, who handles f...
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| Dinner Plate with the Arms of Colim Campbell |
Spring 2003
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This large dinner plate painted in famille rose enamels bears the arms of Campbell and two mottoes: Memento and Dues Dabit Vela. Colin Campbell (1686-1757) was born in Edinburgh and served as an officer in the English navy during the war of the Spanish Su...
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| Early Nineteenth Century American Blown Flint Glass: A Beginners Guide to Connoisseurship |
Spring 2003
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During the second quarter of the nineteenth century American glass factories reached a golden age in the production of fine free blown, molded, cut, and engraved flint (lead) glass. Prior to this time the domestic glass industry suffered from competition...
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| Elinor Gordon: 2003 ADA Merit Award Recipient |
Spring 2003
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The Antiques Dealers' Association of America, Inc. (ADA) 1 is pleased to honor noted Chinese export porcelain dealer Elinor Gordon of Villanova, Pennsylvania, with the second Award of Merit for distinguished contributions to the antiques industry. Celebra...
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| Fine China Trade Silver Jug |
Spring 2003
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This exceptional jug was purchased in Canton, China, in 1854, by New York merchant Theodore Frelinghausen Lewis, who was traveling on the clipper ship, The N. B. Palmer....
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| Gohar Carpet |
Spring 2003
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The Armenian religious text inscribed in this carpet was translated in 1908 by the eminent linguist Norayr de Byzance as: "I the sinful Gouhar have made this with my own hands, may anyone reading this pray for my obtaining grace. In the year 1129." The Ar...
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| Highlights: Spring News, Events, and Trends |
Spring 2003
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Even before Hollywood beauty Salma Hayek portrayed her in a popular recent film, Mexican painter Frida Kahlo (1907-1954) was a twentieth-century legend. Perhaps one of the best known Latin American artists, Kahlo led a lively, bohemian life that was also...
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| Jacob Eicholtz Portrait Painter |
Spring 2003
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Jacob Eichholtz (1776-1842) inhabited several worlds, or so his letter to fellow artist and historian of early American art, William Dunlap would suggest. Trained as an artisan, he successfully entered the world of fine art (Fig. 1). Born and raised in t...
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| John Singer Sargent Portrait |
Spring 2003
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Mrs. Peter Chardon Brooks, whose maiden name was Sarah Lawrence, lived from 1845 to 1915. She was the daughter of Sarah Elizabeth Appleton and noted manufacturer and philanthropist Amos Adams Lawrence, for whose family the Massachusetts city of Lawrence i...
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