This 18th century cartel clock from the Horace Wood Brock collection, featured in the March issue of ANTIQUES, aptly depicts the fleeting nature of time, is particularly appropriate this Sunday, when are clocks, now mostly digital, are turned ahead one hour. Brock’s stunning collection is a reminder of an age when instruments of timekeeping were not just practical necessities, as …
Endnotes: Boston needlework
We were prepared to pay considerably more, so were happily surprised,” says American needlework dealer Carol Huber about her successful bid on this charming Boston canvas-work picture, offered at the first auction of American furniture and decorative arts held by Bonhams in New York in mid-January. When she saw it in the catalogue, she thought the presale estimate of $6,000 …
Wedgwood in the nineteenth century
Celebrating the 250th anniversary of the Wedgwood ceramics manufactory
Red, white, and Tiffany blue
Generations and regenerations of White House decor
Harbor & Home
Furniture of southeastern Massachusetts, 1710 1850
American studio ceramics at mid century
Adherents to the studio craft movement championed the handmade object, the idiosyncratic form, and the individual eye
Preview of the Winterthur Ceramics Conference
An insider look at the Winterthur Ceramics Conference
Eileen Gray Designs Poised to Set Auction Records
On the pieces by Eileen Gray in the YSL/Bergé collection at Christie’s
Edward F. Caldwell and Company’s Legacy of Lighting
Although the name of Edward F. Caldwell may be unfamiliar to some, the lighting fixtures made by his eponymous firm grace some of the best known public and private architectural commissions of the late 19th and early 20th centuries in the United States. Caldwell and his partner, Victor F. von Lossberg, a Russian artist he met while working at Archer …
Dealer Profile: Peter Pap
Deeply colored rugs have often been doctored with acid washes… a practice Pap finds equivalent to defacing a fine painting