An interior view signed by James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903) hangs above a veneered walnut dressing table, Boston, 1710-1730, formerly in the collection of Eric Martin Wunsch. On the dressing table, from left, are a delft hand warmer shaped like a book, London, probably Southwark, dated 1665 and initialed “B./I.E”; a delft jug with armorial decoration, London, 1699; and a Charles …
Farther afield: Alimentary Athenaeums
A sampler of culinary museums around the world, where food is explored as cultural tradition, as industry, and even as art.
History on the Half Shell
All about the renaissance of the landmark nineteenth-century Brooklyn restaurant Gage & Tollner.
Clay, Commerce, and a Free Man of Color
An important new exhibition traces the life and work of Thomas W. Commeraw, free Black potter of early New York.
The Finest Piece of Walnut Furniture of its Type
An excerpt from the new book English Furniture 1680–1760, The Percival D. Griffiths Collection examines the famed Dickinson desk and bookcase.
Object Lesson: Emotion on the Auction Block
When Stair Galleries, an auction house in the small upstate New York city of Hudson, released its catalogue for the sale of famed author Joan Didion’s personal effects, there was one item that immediately caught our eye…
Auction notes: Upcoming Sales: The great Peter Tillou’s estate and the mysterious art of Gertrude Abercrombie
The auction of the estates of Peter Tillou and Gertrude Abercrombie
The Eyes Have It
A young antiques dealer and his peers offer their vision for the future of the trade
Living Large
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
Wandering Eye: From Oval Office art to Vincent Van D’Oh!
What the editors of The Magazine ANTIQUES are looking at this week