Investigating a pair of luxury jade vessels from the Qing Dynasty, with curator Clarissa von Spee…
Curious Objects: Leather, with Glenn Adamson
Glenn Adamson talks all about leather, one of the oldest as well as the commonest human-worked materials.
Curious Objects: A Journey Back In Time At the Peabody Essex Museum, Part 2
Benjamin Miller continues his odyssey through the PEM’s James B. and Mary Lou Hawkes Collection Center…
Curious Objects: Around the World at the Peabody Essex Museum, Part 1
The Peabody Essex Museum welcomes host Benjamin Miller behind the scenes into their Collection Center, a state of the art storage and viewing facility for many of their curious objects.
Curious Objects:New Perspectives on Ancient Glass, with Katherine Larson
In 1963, archaeologists from the Corning Museum of Glass in upstate New York began excavations in an ancient Levantine town called Jalamet…
Seamless Transition
An excerpt from the book The New Antiquarians takes us into the Maine home of a young clothing designer turned folk art collector and dealer.
Curious Objects: Textiles don’t get no respect
Henry VII commissioned thirty of these richly embroidered vestments called “copes,” for the English clergy, helping to lay the foundation for that special blend of religion, power, and material prestige that would mark the reign of his son, the notorious Henry VIII.
Curious Objects: Of Shoes and Ships and Sealing Wax, with Kay Collier
Kay Collier, owner of Kathryn Hastings and Company, talks to host Ben Miller about her business and her collection of antique stamps.
Curious Objects: Gilded-Age Silver with the Gilded Gentleman
All about Gilded Age silver, with Curious Objects and the Gilded Gentleman.
Curious Objects: Thomas Commeraw, Free Black Potter in 1800s New York
For nearly two hundred years, from his death in 1823, New York potter Thomas Commeraw was out of sight. In the digital age it finally became possible to positively identify him: as a prosperous free Black craftsman with a manufactory in Corlears Hook.