| Know Your Antiques: Sampler Comparisons |
Spring 2003
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Samplers, silk embroideries, and canvaswork pictures are extraordinary examples of needlework skill wrought by girls and young ladies from the late-seventeenth into the mid-nineteenth centuries. When exhibiting at antiques shows, we observe visitors to ou...
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| Lifestyle: Patria in Vermont |
Spring 2003
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American antiques have been a passion for Norman and Mary Gronning since their introduction to them in Buffalo, New York, in the 1960s. As newlyweds just beginning their careers as teachers, the couple sought a way to supplement their income and decided t...
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| Lloyd Family Painted Furniture: Revisited |
Spring 2003
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The discovery of the painted window cornice and table corresponding to receipts in the papers of the Edward Lloyd family of Maryland from the venerable Baltimore fancy furniture painters John and Hugh Finlay...
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| Mahogany Compass-Seat Roundabout Chair |
Spring 2003
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This Boston roundabout chair, with its leaf-carved crest rail, pierced openwork splat, cupidÕs bow splat shoes, claw-and-ball front foot, and full-pad rear feet, is among the most sophisticated examples yet discovered. The design of the splat shoes, deepl...
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| Monumental Carved Spoon Rack |
Spring 2003
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This wall box spoon rack is exceptional for its artistic conception, crisply carved decoration, and unusually large size. Spoon racks of this complexity were commissioned by the rural elite, and very few comparable American examples survive today. The spo...
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| Museum Focus: Pennsbury Manor |
Spring 2003
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When William Penn (1644-1718) began building Pennsbury Manor in 1683, he had high hopes for his personal estate. Situated on 8,400 acres of prime land along the Delaware River, he envisioned a stylish house surrounded by carefully tended gardens. The land...
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| Museum Focus: The Parry Mansion |
Spring 2003
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The Parry Mansion is located in New Hope, Pennsylvania, where the Old York Road that links Philadelphia and New York crosses the Delaware River. It is here that in the winter campaign of 1776 George Washington and his army crossed the river on Christmas...
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| Rare and Important Rig of Four Eskimo Curlew |
Spring 2003
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Charles F. Coffin was the son of prominent Nantucket citizens Henry Coffin (1807-1900) and Elisa Starbuck (1811-1903). Excerpts from Coffin's diary at the Nantucket....
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| Raymond Kanelba Portrait |
Spring 2003
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"Elegance will never dull the robust art of Kanelba. I repeat his color is never affected. His palette is composed of solid tones that he doesn't mind putting down almost as roughly as in the post-Cezanne days of pure Color," wrote the French poet Andre S...
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| Serab Runner |
Spring 2003
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Serab carpets are known for their warm, inviting appearance and runner format. This example is expansive in size and retains the full outer borders, which are often cut down to fit contemporary spaces....
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