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Palanquin, 19th century Japan. Decorated in lacquer, with interiors related to contemporaneous screen painting. ⭐ @palaisimperialdecompiegne
#AntiqueofTheDay #19thcenturyantiques
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Palanquin, 19th century Japan. Decorated in lacquer, with interiors related to contemporaneous screen painting. ⭐ @palaisimperialdecompiegne
#AntiqueofTheDay #19thcenturyantiques
From the latest issue; specialists from auction houses around the country tell us about choice lots in their upcoming sales, starting this week. 🐓
Click the link below to learn more!
https://bit.ly/3baKiyr
A pair of famille rose porcelain roosters, Qianlong period. Chinese Export Art Featuring Property from the Tibor Collection, January 7–20, online estimate: $20,000–$30,000.
@Christies
#winterauction #porcelainart #antiqueporcelain
Badge from the Madame C. J. Walker Convention, 1920s. Walker (1867-1919) was an African American entrepreneur who manufactured, distributed, and sold hair care products specifically for black women. This badge signified its bearer’s accreditation as a “hair culturist” at one of Walker’s beauty training events, one of her novel methods of marketing, but also a means of providing other Black women like her with a means of income. ⭐ @NMAAHC
#AntiqueofTheDay #madamecjwalker
From the latest issue: "Did you know that the color mauve, or, rather, the pigment, was discovered in 1856 by an eighteen-year-old student experimenting with the hydrocarbons in coal tar from street lamps in an attempt to discover a cure for malaria?"
Click the link below to learn more! ⭐
https://bit.ly/2JdPF4j
Mauve, made by F. Weber and Company, Inc., 1941. Forbes Pigment Collection; photograph by Anna Kovacs. © President and Fellows of Harvard College.
@harvardartmuseums #forbespigmentcollection
Saltcellar made in Sierra Leone, ivory, 15th-16th century. This object attests to the encounter of Portuguese and West African people five centuries ago. The carving was done by skilled regional artisans to suit the preferences of European traders, who commissioned objects like these for their patrons. The design combines European and African motifs. 🧂 @metmuseum
#AntiqueofTheDay #15thcenturyantiques #carving #sierraleone
Georges Antoine Baudouin, Serpent, c. 1820. Pearwood, leather, and brass. This musical instrument is an ancestor of the tuba, which employed its serpentine curves to achieve a deep bass pitch. 🐍 @mfaboston
#AntiqueofTheDay #19thcenturyantiques #georgesantoinebaudouin
Click the link below to check out what's going on this week at museums across the country! ⭐
https://bit.ly/3pT4NU9
Poppy Field (Landscape at Giverny) by Willard Metcalf (1858–1925), 1886. Dixon Gallery and Gardens, Memphis, Tennessee; courtesy of J. Jeffrey and Ann Marie Fox.
@DixonGalleryandGardens
#openingsandclosings #willardmetcalf #americanimpressionism #19thcenturyart
Héctor Aguilar, Silver Feathers and Obsidian Cabochons Necklace, 1940s. Aguilar’s work reflects his beginnings as a director at William Spratling's workshop, Taller de Las Delicias, before he opened his own workshop in 1939. His works fuse Aztec and Mixtec motifs with an international modernist vocabulary. ⚫ @LACMA
#AntiqueofTheDay #antiquejewelry #williamspratling
Globe-Shaped Work Table, Vienna, c. 1820. This Biedermeier-era design incorporates Renaissance Revival touches in its interior, as well as astronomical symbolism, while also reflecting prevailing currents of European imperialism. @artic
#AntiqueofTheDay #renaissancerevival #europeanantiques #19thcenturyantiques
From the latest issue: "The Speed Art Museum in Louisville, recently opened an exhibition, Careful, Neat, and Decent: Arts of the Kentucky Shakers, examining the material culture of the Shakers at both South Union and Pleasant Hill. From the furniture and objects the Shakers created for themselves to the products they marketed to the public, the exhibition gives visitors a unique opportunity to view a juxtaposition between the design sensibilities of the two villages"
Click the link below to read more! ⭐
https://bit.ly/34E8Tr9
Shaker box, probably Mount Lebanon, New York, c. 1830. South Union Shaker Village.
@SpeedArtMuseum #currentandcoming #americancraft
Sextant made by Charles Frodsham, Liverpool, 1865. Now unfamiliar to most, the sextant was a crucial tool of navigation in the age of sail, used for taking accurate astronomical readings. @americanhistory
#AntiqueofTheDay #19thcenturyantiques #charlesfrodsham #antiquesextant
Stanislaw Wyspianski, Self-Portrait, 1902. This romantic portrayal by a leading artist and designer of the Polish Arts and Crafts Movement is included in the new book Young Poland, published by @LHArtBooks
#AntiqueofTheDay #stanislawwyspianski #polishartsandcrafts #20thcenturyart
Alfred Stieglitz, Snow and Sky, c. 1890s. This lantern slide taken by the great photographer is in the archives 📸 @philamuseum
#AntiqueofTheDay #alfredstieglitz #19thcenturyart
From the latest issue: "Although Breck was not the first painter to depict Venice using an impressionist technique, he was the first American to create a large body of Venetian views in that style."
Click the link below to read more! ⭐
https://bit.ly/2JjUBVn
Santa Maria by Moonlight by John Leslie Breck (1860–1899), 1897. Oil on canvas, 32 by 24 inches. Private collection; photograph courtesy of Adelson Galleries, New York.
@adelsongalleries
Happy New Year! With the stroke of midnight still echoing, we bring you a relic of one of America’s great heroes: Helen Keller. It is a “touch watch,” originally intended to tell time in the dark; the pins around the perimeter protrude in time with the hands, allowing the unsighted Keller to know the time. It is featured in the current exhibition “Girlhood (It’s Complicated)” at the @americanhistory
#AntiqueofTheDay #touchwatch #helenkeller
Coffeepot, c. 1770, Staffordshire or Yorkshire. Lead-glazed earthenware. The legend – “Let us, therefore, follow after the things that make for peace” – seems a good message to bear in mind as the tumultuous year of 2020 draws to a close. ⭐ @ColonialWilliamsburg
#AntiqueofTheDay #18thcenturyantiques #newyearseve
Check out what's going on this week at museums across the country and abroad! Click the link below to learn more! ⭐
https://bit.ly/37TDByC
The Afro by Jeff Hafler, 2018. Beauty Bubble Salon and Museum, Joshua Tree, California; courtesy of SFO Museum, San Francisco, California.
@SFOmuseum
A snowy scene by the American precisionist landscape painter Dale Nichols (1904-1995), likely painted just after the second world war. The painting is currently with #DebraForceFineArt ❄️
#AntiqueofTheDay #dalenichols #20thcenturyart
Kimono-shaped bedcover with motifs of tea ceremony utensils and plum blossoms, Meiji Japan. Cotton with paste-resist dyed (tsutsugaki) technique. 👘 @LACMA
#AntiqueofTheDay #meijiart #tsutsugakitechnique
From the latest issue: "How did filmmakers re-create the majesty of Michelangelo’s masterpiece in the days before digital computer effects? With gigantic hand-painted scenic backdrops".
Check out the link below to learn more about the exhibitions on view at the McNay Art Museum in San Antonio that is home to six of these mammoth artifacts. ⭐
https://bit.ly/36u729B
Backdrop replicating Michelangelo’s Last Judgement in the Sistine Chapel, Vatican City, made for Metro- Goldwyn-Mayer Studios’ film The Shoes of the Fisherman (1968). Courtesy of the Art Directors Guild Archives; JC Backings; and Melinda Sue Gordon, Society of Motion Picture Still Photographers.
@McNayArt @mgm
The Farnese Casket, made for Cardinal Alessandro Farnese by Manno di Sebastiano Sbarri and Giovanni Bernardi, c. 1548 – 1561. A true treasure of Renaissance craft, this object was intended to hold precious manuscripts; the materials include gilded silver, rock crystal and lapis lazuli. ⭐ @museodicapodimonte
#AntiqueofTheDay #16thcenturyantiques
This Tlingit carved ladle, dating to the 19th century, would have been used on a formal feasting occasion; it includes motifs of an eagle and a bear, and the handle articulation is reminiscent of a totem pole. Horn, with bone, copper, abalone shell inlay. 🦅🐻 @clevelandmuseumofart
#AntiqueofTheDay #tistheseason #19thcenturyantiques
Happy Boxing Day! As is our custom here at @antiquesmag we bring you a special box from the past. This early 17th c. lacquer writing container (Suzuri-Bako) is attributed to the inventive Japanese artist Hon'ami Koetsu, who inspired the sophisticated and decorative idiom known as the Rinpa School. 🦌 @philamuseum
#AntiqueofTheDay #tistheseason #boxingday #17thcenturyantiques
From the latest issue: "The house and collection built by the visionary director of the Wadsworth Atheneum 'Chick' Austin was as colorful and multifaceted as the man himself." Click the link below to learn more! ⭐
https://bit.ly/2Jjwzd8
The Austin House in a photograph by Eugene R. Gaddis, 2001. Courtesy of the Wadsworth Atheneum Archives, Hartford, Connecticut.
@WadsworthAtheneum #austinhouse #chickaustin
All of us at TMA wish you a Merry Christmas! Here to mark the day is Horace Pippin’s Christmas Morning, 1945. 🎄 @cincinattiartmuseum
#AntiqueofTheDay #tistheseason #merrychristmas #horacepippin
Getting in the holiday spirit with this fancy-painted sleigh in the form of two swans, previously with Allan Katz Americana. ❄️
#AntiqueofTheDay #tistheseason #AllanKatzAmericana
Click the link below to check out what's going on this week at museums at home and abroad! 🐐
https://bit.ly/2KR3tCg
Silver Mountain Goat c. 3000 BC. Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Houston, Texas.
@mfah.org #antiquesculpture #persianart
Baltimore Album Quilt, made for David Henry Crowl by his mother, Susanna Hiss Crowl, with contributions other family members. This is a "freedom quilt" made to celebrate David's twenty-first birthday and the completion of his apprenticeship in a marine-related trade. 🔴 #marylandhistoricalsociety
#AntiqueofTheDay #davidhentrycrowl #freedomquilt
Table designed by Charles Edward Horton and manufactured by James Lamb, Manchester, mahogany. The same model was exhibited in the Manchester Exhibition, 1887. H. Blairman & Sons, London.
#AntiqueofTheDay #charlesedwardhorton #hblairmanandsons
From the latest issue: "Reviewers called Plattʼs landscapes 'brilliant in tone but true to the colors found in sky and plain and vale,' and praised her interiors for 'quaintness of type and richness of color in shadowy corners and firelit hearths'". Check the link below to learn more! 🖌️
https://bit.ly/2IUzvfY
Platt in a photograph of c. 1900 by Mary Harvey Tannahill (1863–1951). Platt family collection.
#americanart #featured #aletheahillplatt
It’s the first day of winter – we’re getting ready with this pair of quilted and fur-lined carriage boots, dating to the 1890s. ❄️ @FrickPittsburgh
#AntiqueofTheDay #19thcenturydesign #tistheseason
This characterful chair in maple and hickory, c. 1775, was made in Canada and has features associated with French regional seating: S-scroll slats and the ornate baluster turnings below the arms and on the stretchers. 🍁 @YaleArtGallery
#AntiqueofTheDay #18thcenturyantiques
From our latest issue, the Cincinnati Art Museum examines the career of a forgotten favorite son, the artist Frank Duveneck. Click the link in bio to learn more! 🍉
Still Life with Watermelon, c. 1878. Initialed “FD” in monogram at lower right. Oil on canvas, 25 1/8 by 38 1/8 inches. Cincinnati Art Museum, Dexter Fund.
@cincinnatiartmuseum #featuring #frankduveneck
Day gloves in sueded sheepskin, 1930s. Manufactured by Alexandrine, Paris. This elegant pair of gloves is among the costume collection transferred from the @brooklynmuseum to the @metmuseum in 2009. 🧤
#AntiqueofTheDay #20thcenturydesign
Aquamanile in Form of a Siren, Hildesheim, ca. 1230. Bronze. From the Dionysius Treasure in Enger, District of Herford. ⭐ @staatlichemuseenzuberlin
#AntiqueofTheDay #13thcenturyart
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Ever wondered how the otherwise-unremarkable locales of Meissen, Staffordshire, and Sèvres became the European polestars for porcelain production? Or what outsider artists like Bill Traylor and William Edmondson, discovered by the art establishment in the 1930s and ‘40s, made of their newfound fame? Christie’s specialists Cara Zimmerman and Becky MacGuire answer these questions and more in this episode of Curious Objects keyed to the auction house’s 2020 Americana Week. Click the link in our bio to listen! @christiesinc @cara.zimm @beckymacguire @objectiveinterest @michaeldiazgriffith #curiousobjectspodcast #curiousobjects #outsiderart #billtraylor #porcelain #americanaweek
In this month's episode of #CuriousObjects, @michaeldiazgriffith treks to Colonial Williamsburg in Virginia to talk with chief curator Ron Hurst about a new exhibition at the DeWitt Wallace Museum of Decorative Arts: "British Masterworks", opening in January. Objects like gilt chandeliers, a colossal Chippendale bookcase, and an armchair upholstered by Lady Barbara North of Glemham, England (seen above) tell a different story today from the ones they were bought to support. As Michael explains, “re-presenting the past shows us that it’s often not what we expect.” Click the link in our bio to listen!
In this month's episode of #CuriousObjects, @michaeldiazgriffith treks to Colonial Williamsburg in Virginia to talk with chief curator Ron Hurst about a new exhibition at the DeWitt Wallace Museum of Decorative Arts: "British Masterworks", opening in January. Objects like gilt chandeliers, a colossal Chippendale bookcase, and an armchair upholstered by Lady Barbara North of Glemham, England (seen above) tell a different story today from the ones they were bought to support. As Michael explains, “re-presenting the past shows us that it’s often not what we expect.” Click the link in our bio to listen!
Only a small number of people have the resources and wherewithal to collect Hepplewhite furniture or Paul Revere silver, but plenty collect baseball cards, including Randall, the voice behind the viral video The Crazy Nastyass Honey Badger. With some fifty thousand cards in his collection, Randall has a bead on the entire field. As this month’s Curious Objects guest, he shares with Ben some of the things he’s learned about collecting strategies and changes in the baseball card genre. Listen to the episode here: https://bit.ly/2MWmy4n
#CuriousObjects is back! This month Ben Miller travels to Salem, MA, to learn how researchers at the @peabodyessex are analyzing the ways people look at art and blazing the way for the museology of the future. https://themagazineantiques.com/article/getting-wired-at-the-peabody-essex-museum/
Thousands of antiques dealers congregate along a half-mile strip of Route 20 in #brimfield Massachusetts every year to hawk untold quantities of folk art, furniture, vintage signs, silverware, and other collectibles. We got to visit this year, here is what we saw! @brimfield_antique_show @brimfieldantiquefleamarkets @brimfieldfleafinder @brimfieldantiquemarket @heartothemart #brimfieldantiqueshow
#CuriousObjects is back! This month, Ben and Michael pay a visit to one of the New York antiques world’s preeminent galleries, Bernard & S. Dean Levy on 84th Street, where they speak with the fourth-generation co-proprietor, Frank Levy. https://bit.ly/2ZEtaYu
INSTAGRAM RAFFLE ALERT: Starting on August 6th, a new month-long exhibition opens at American Folk Art Museum titled “WALL POWER! Quilts from the Karen and Werner Gundersheimer Gift”. The show runs until September 1st and celebrates the gift of 21 quilts to their collection. To celebrate, the American Folk Art Museum has partnered with The Magazine ANTIQUES to raffle off a year-long subscription to our publication, an AFAM canvas tote bag, the catalog for their exhibition "Made in New York City: The Business of Folk Art", an Ammi Phillips button, a postcard, and a phone pocket. For more information on how to participate, visit us on Instagram @antiquesmag
Shout out to our friends at Winterthur! This is the last week their exhibition Dining by Design will be up, and we can’t recommend it highly enough. Check out this vid to hear our review, or read it on our website at http://www.themagazineantiques.com/article/flora-fauna-set-table-winterthur/
We had so much fun this past Memorial Day weekend at #DesignHudson with Visit Hudson NY. Here are some of our highlights!
Join us in Hudson, NY this Memorial Day Weekend for Visit Hudson NY's event Design Hudson. #designhudson Find out more on our website: http://www.themagazineantiques.com/design-hudson/
The 6th episode of our Curious Objects podcast launched last week. Make sure you visit our website to listen. In this edition, Benjamin Miller talks with luthier Paul Becker, of Carl Becker & Son, about all things stringed-from the timbre of ancient violins, the market for fakes, to the unique relationship between a musician and an instrument. The episode also features some great violin music by special guest Katherine Lehman! http://www.themagazineantiques.com/article/making-music-conversation-luthier-paul-becker/
Part 2 of our Winter Antiques Show podcast episode is finally here! Listen here: http://www.themagazineantiques.com/article/curious-objects-treasures-winter-antiques-show-part-2/
There are still a few days left until "Tradition is Now: How the Art and Objects of the Past Shape the World Today" in conversation with Thomas Jayne and Young Paris on January 26th. RSVP in the link below! https://goo.gl/AQA6tW
Have you noticed the beautiful chair on our new cover? The theories on how the Vizagapatam chair came to be are here: http://tiny.cc/p0qs9w, but you first need to know how to say the name!
The Winter Antiques Show in New York City comes to a close this weekend. Here is an inside look at the Peter Pap Oriental Rugs booth: http://www.themagazineantiques.com/news-opinion/the-market/2013-02-01/winter-antiques-show/
Since its inception in 1922, The Magazine ANTIQUES has been America’s premier publication on the fine and decorative arts, architecture, preservation, and interior design. Each bimonthly issue includes regular columns on current exhibitions, personalities in the field, notes on collecting, book reviews, and more.
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