Now on our Curious Objects podcast: Why You Should Spend $10000 on a Shaving Bowl…
Curious Objects: Antiques Roadshow Appraiser Nick Dawes
Antiques Roadshow appraiser Nick Dawes takes us through his most fascinating finds.
Curious Objects: A Newly Unearthed George Washington Letter, with Nathan Raab
A never-before-seen missive by George Washington is the subject of this week’s interview…
Curious Objects: Jade, the Imperial Gem, with Clarissa von Spee
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.