An archival piece tells the story of a remarkable 18th Century Chinese export porcelain service
New light: Hidden in Plain Sight
Researchers in Williamsburg identify a building that housed an eighteenth-century school for black children
New Light: A Window on Mrs. Hackley and Her Greenwood Seminary
“Mahala Jameson marked this sampler under the direction of Mrs Hackley A D 1818.”
New light: More squares from Mrs. Miner’s carpet (From our Archives)
Discoveries come in such unexpected ways
A Fresh Look at a Few Old Pastels
Henrietta Johnston’s portraits of Colonel John Moore and his wife, Frances Lambert Moore
A gift from the czar, and a puzzle solved
The McFerrin Collection—housed in the Houston Museum of Natural Science and built over the past sixteen years by Dorothy and Artie McFerrin—features the largest private holdings in the United States of objects by the Russian jewelry firm Fabergé.
New light: More squares from Mrs. Miner’s carpet
Discoveries come in such unexpected ways. You can search for years for a missing piece of your puzzle without success. And then, sometimes, it falls in your lap! That is what happened last year when my friend Tom Jewett, of Jewett-Berdan Antiques, posted pictures of his Christmas decorations on Facebook. Tom and Butch Berdan go all out for Christmas at …