| Know Your Antiques: Artists with an Eye Toward the Sea |
Summer 2002
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Dramatic naval engagements, bustling ports, and successful sea captains are maritime art subjects that have captivated collectors for centuries......
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| Mantelpieces in New England: An Introduction |
Summer 2002
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Until the widespread introduction in the 1830s of airtight cast-iron parlor stoves and kitchen cook stoves, fireplaces were essential for heating and......
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| Museum Focus: The Fuller Bequest to the Currier Gallery of Art |
Summer 2002
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On October 9, 1929, a few weeks before the stock market crash that sent a prosperous America plummeting into the Great Depression, the Currier......
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| Pair of Chippendale Walnut Side Chairs |
Summer 2002
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These chairs are superlative examples of Philadelphia craftsmanship, achieving a successful integration of form and decoration. The carving of......
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| Pennsylvania's Mystery Preceptress |
Summer 2002
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In 1998, we purchased an eighteenth-century sampler wrought by a young girl identified as Phebe Harvey. We were impressed with the needlework's......
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| Portraiture in Early Connecticut |
Summer 2002
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Although native and foreign-born artists had been working as portraitists in New England since about 1670, Connecticut hosted no professional artist......
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| Pottery Figure of a Striding Camel with Foreign Rider |
Summer 2002
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This splendid figure of a striding camel with head raised and mouth open as if to roar is well matched in power by the diminutive but forceful figure of......
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| Rare Malachite and Ormolu Circular Tripod Table |
Summer 2002
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The malachite top, carefully veneered to create a quasi-symmetrical pattern emanating from the center of the table, indicates by its deep green coloring......
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| Reading the Evidence: The Challenge of Furniture Documentation |
Summer 2002
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Unlike buildings or gravestones, which for the most part remain fixed in position as their makers originally intended, furniture is by definition......
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| Sculpture by Wheeler Williams |
Summer 2002
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This figure, possibly named 'Maya', was sculpted and cast during Wheeler Williams's last year in Paris and is rumored to have been created for......
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