Mississippi Rococo

Editorial Staff Furniture & Decorative Arts

It is rare when objects of a similar age but widely different origins arrive in an unfamiliar location and settle in happily together. It isperhaps even more unexpected to find an intercontinental mix of furnishings from mid-eighteenth-century Ireland, England, and the United States in Natchez, Mississippi. Although it has been ruled under five international flags, Natchez is most closely associated …