What our magazine’s long-running and most popular feature series “Living with Antiques,” tells us about time, taste, and our mercurial rapport with the material realm
“Conformable to that of the Waters”: The search for the origins of an early Kentucky furniture group
The cabriole-legged furniture of
Kentucky is the result of the region’s particular environmental, cultural, social, and economic forces, a kind of terroir, made manifest in wood
Magazine January/February 2021
Subscribe to The Magazine ANTIQUES today! And sign-up for our newsletter! JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2021 Editor’s LetterGregory Cerio Critical Thinking/Difficult IssuesUnsafe Deposit Glenn Adamson Current and ComingThe invention of folk art at Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts, Spanish influences at the Chrysler, and more Talking AntiquesExhibitors at the Winter Show reflect on favorite memories of the fair, and describe exceptional artworks they’re bringing …
Living With Antiques: The Kentucky collection of Sharon and Mack Cox (From our Archives)
Step into Sharon and Mack Cox’s house in Richmond, Kentucky, and your eye might land first on the large stone fireplace at the end of their open living room
American vernacular rococo
from The Magazine ANTIQUES, May/June 2013 | About 1736 John Lewis (1678-1762) of Ulster, County Donegal, Ireland, killed his impetuous young landlord, “cleaving in twain his skull,” and then fled to Philadelphia in the American colonies. The following year his wife Margaret Lynn Lewis (1693-1773) and their four sons joined him. Informed that he was still a wanted man, Lewis …
Beyond moonlight and magnolias
from The Magazine ANTIQUES, September/October 2012 | “When I met Frank Horton and saw the Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts in 1976, I put down the Confederate flag and picked up a chair leg. How much better to see the South through its art, to understand its identity through its achievements rather than through the sacrifice of war. Here …
Williamsburg Forum 2011
Colonial Williamsburg will convene its sixty-third annual Antiques Forum between February 20 and 24, 2011. The theme this year, Decorative Arts Forensics: How We Know What We Know, is intended to shed light on some of the fascinating advances in techniques for historical research and scientific investigation that have opened new avenues of verification for curators, collectors, and scholars. The …
Shearer Energy
Fig. 1. The chest of drawers by John Shearer (active c. 1798–at least 1818) that earned Linda Quynn Ross the nickname “Miss Shearer Energy” is now in the living room of her house, Carter Hill, in Winchester, Virginia. On top is a late eighteenth-century box from Frederick County, Virginia. The table at the left is by Shearer, the one on …
My MESDA
Sometimes you have to move every object in a collection to fully appreciate it. In January the curatorial team at the Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts did just that. We moved virtually every exhibited object in the museum’s galleries and opened our new 45-minute guided tour, called Southernisms: People and Places, in one week’s time. Exhausted, and with sore …
Palladio Minimus: A Georgian dollhouse and the 18th century miniature world
Only a small handful of early English doll- houses survive, and most lack a complete provenance going back to original owners and makers