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Author : William Voss Elder (III)
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Total Pages : 183 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (91 download)
Download or read book American Furniture 1680-1880 written by William Voss Elder (III) and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Baltimore Museum of Art
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Total Pages : 192 pages
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Download or read book American Furniture, 1680-1880, from the Collection of the Baltimore Museum of Art written by Baltimore Museum of Art and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Frances Gruber Safford
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN 13 : 1588392333
Total Pages : 465 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (883 download)
Download or read book American Furniture in the Metropolitan Museum of Art written by Frances Gruber Safford and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 2007 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Metropolitan Museum's preeminent collection of early colonial furniture is expertly documented in this long-awaited publication. It covers the full spectrum of furniture forms made during the 17th and early 18th centuries--from chairs and other seating to tables, boxes, various types of chests and cupboards, and desks. Each of the 141 objects is thoroughly described with detailed information on provenance, construction, condition, inscriptions, dimensions, and materials. Photographed anew in color for this volume, each piece is explicated in terms of the styles and craftsmanship of the period and is evaluated in light of comparative pieces in public and private collections throughout the country. One appendix contains photographic details of construction and decorative elements, and another has drawings of joints and moldings.
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Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 9780820317939
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (179 download)
Download or read book Classical Savannah written by and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By the end of the eighteenth century, classicism, which arose out of Europe's fascination with ancient Greece and Rome, had also left its mark on America. This study of the classical style in the fine and decorative arts shows the extent to which it influenced the material culture of Savannah, Georgia, from 1800 to 1840. More than 130 examples of objects owned in Savannah in this period are illustrated, described, and discussed. The objects include oil paintings and watercolors, clocks, musical instruments, jewelry, sculptures, engravings, bank notes, needlework, china, silver, brass, lighting fixtures, architectural elements, and furniture. Page Talbott presents an overview of the origins of classicism in Europe and its spread to America. Emphasizing Americans' close identification of classicism with national values and ideals, Talbott also discusses the style in the context of Savannah's social life and its history as a major southern port. She covers not only the principles, methods, and materials of classical design, but also the manufacture, distribution, sale, and ownership of a wide range of functional and decorative objects. Classical Savannah is the companion volume to the Classical Savannah exhibition, which opened in the spring of 1995 at the Telfair Museum of Art in Savannah. Illustrating well over half of the items in the exhibit, and including a detailed checklist of the additional seventy objects not shown in the book, Classical Savannah is a valuable source for historians, designers, decorators, collectors, and anyone interested in this period of America's history.
Author : Leigh Keno
Publisher : Grand Central Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0446549363
Total Pages : 335 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (465 download)
Download or read book Hidden Treasures written by Leigh Keno and published by Grand Central Publishing. This book was released on 2008-11-16 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a country of junk-filled attics, yard sales, and flea markets frequented by millions of Antiques Roadshow viewers hoping to uncover a grungy chest of drawers worth millions, the Keno twins have become the Siskel and Ebert of antiques. Dapper, witty, and in their early forties (with nearly 60 years of combined experience between them), they symbolize the union of amateur enthusiasm and acute professionalism that has made their television program a cultural phenomenon. Now, in this fascinating collection of tales of their personal adventures hunting -- and discovering -- priceless "junk" (including some notable Roadshow success stories), readers will learn how to see the extraordinary in the mundane. "Hidden Treasures" is part history lesson and part treasure map for finding valuable antiques where they would be least expected.
Author : Philip Zimmerman
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1538182718
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (381 download)
Download or read book A Storied Past: Collections of the Historic Odessa written by Philip Zimmerman and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2023-06-07 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Storied Past: Collections of the Historic Odessa captures the historical character and significance of two important late-18th-century houses, each of which retains a high percentage of original furnishings and locally made objects. Over the past several years, the collections have undergone careful examination and interpretation. One hundred are published along with four interpretive chapters. Relatively few historic sites have received this level of investigative treatment. Additionally, several of the hitherto-unpublished objects relate to others already in the decorative and fine arts lexicon. Using rich archival and genealogical sources, Philip D. Zimmerman brings to light here for the first time an extraordinary array of decorative and fine arts from the collections at the Historic Odessa Foundation. This well-documented group of family objects provides an intimate glimpse into the daily life of members of the Corbit and Wilson families in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries and also sheds light on the history of Odessa, Delaware, and the larger region. Particularly strong holdings of furniture made by John Janvier and his talented sons and nephew allow informative contrasts with products made in Delaware, Philadelphia, and elsewhere. Needlework and other textiles made by Corbit and Wilson women characterize their handiwork. Other objects tell other stories. Some, labeled by their nineteenth-century owners for posterity, document evolving trends in early collecting and historic preservation. The richly illustrated book includes more than 200 photographs, including many details and historic images, along with careful physical descriptions and historical documentation. Meticulously researched and elegantly written, A Storied Past illuminates a wealth of furnishings, works of art, and artifacts with common provenances and interlocking histories and places them into the artistic, social, and historical contexts of their time. The collections documented here furnish the Corbit-Sharp (1774) and Wilson-Warner (1769) houses, built on adjoining lots by a tanner and a merchant and now maintained by the Historic Odessa Foundation. Subsequent generations valued and preserved the two houses and many furnishings. The Wilson house opened in 1923 as the first historic house museum in Delaware. The Corbit house remained in family hands until H. Rodney Sharp bought it in 1938 to preserve it. Furniture owned in the family of John Janvier, the noted cabinetmaker in Odessa, was added in the 1970s, and the Foundation has continued to acquire Corbit and Wilson family furnishings as well as locally made furniture in the years since. Those interested in historic houses and late 18th and early 19th century life, American antique collectors (especially of furniture), and those with local interests will find this book interesting.
Author : Joseph P. Ward
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 1496812204
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (968 download)
Download or read book European Empires in the American South written by Joseph P. Ward and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2017-09-08 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contributions by Allison Margaret Bigelow, Denise I. Bossy, Alejandra Dubcovsky, Alexandre Dub", Kathleen DuVal, Jonathan Eacott, Travis Glasson, Christopher Morris, Robert Olwell, Joshua Piker, and Joseph P. Ward European Empires in the American South examines the process of European expansion into a region that has come to be known as the American South. After Europeans began to cross the Atlantic with confidence, they interacted for three hundred years with one another, with the native people of the region, and with enslaved Africans in ways that made the South a significant arena of imperial ambition. As such, it was one of several similarly contested regions around the Atlantic basin. Without claiming that the South was unique during the colonial era, these essays make clear the region's integral importance for anyone seeking to shed new light on the long-term process of global social, cultural, and economic integration. For those who are curious about how the broad processes of historical change influenced particular people and places, the contributors offer key examples of colonial encounter. This volume includes essays on all three imperial powers, Spain, Britain, and France, and their imperial projects in the American South. Engaging profitably--from the European perspective at least--with Native Americans proved key to these colonial schemes. While the consequences of Indian encounters with European invaders have long remained a principal feature of historical research, this volume advances and expands knowledge of Native Americans in the South amid the Atlantic World.
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Total Pages : 414 pages
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Download or read book Antiques written by and published by . This book was released on 1997-07 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Catherine Rogers Arthur
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 0801879876
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (18 download)
Download or read book Homewood House written by Catherine Rogers Arthur and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2004-12-20 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of a 2005 Heritage Book Award given by the Maryland Historical Trust. Baltimore's Homewood was a wedding gift from Charles Carroll, a signer of the Declaration of Independence, to his son Charles Jr. and his bride, Harriet Chew Carroll. Located on 130 acres of rolling meadow and forest, it afforded picturesque view to the harbor. The couple built a "full and genteel establishment," a grand yet intimate summer house that exemplifies the work of the most skilled Baltimore craftsmen of the Federal period. Construction began in 1801 and incorporated a classical five-part Palladian plan, with two hyphens flanking the main block and connecting it to two wings, or dependencies. Spending far more than his father had anticipated, Charles Jr. used only the finest materials then available and included extraordinary architectural details throughout the house. Homewood endures today as one of the finest examples of Federal-period domestic architecture in the United States. Sold by the Carroll family in 1838, the house and grounds eventually became the Homewood campus of the Johns Hopkins University. In 1971, Homewood received National Historic Landmark status, and five years later—through the generosity of Robert G. Merrick, an alumnus and university patron who developed a love for Homewood as a student in the 1920s—Johns Hopkins University began a major restoration effort. Today, open to the public as a museum, the house reflects the height of early-nineteenth-century style and the tastes of the Carroll family. In a lavishly illustrated yet scholarly study of this exquisite American residence, Catherine Rogers Arthur and Cindy Kelly explore Homewood's history, detailing its construction, reliving the Carroll family's experiences here, and recounting the expert restoration that preserves this home for generations to come. The book includes more than one hundred full-color photographs of the house's graceful exterior, its elegant rooms and furnishings, and the many architectural details that have made Homewood so beloved.
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Total Pages : 824 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Bibliographic Index written by and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 824 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Martha Novak Clinkscale
Publisher : Clarendon Press
ISBN 13 : 9780198166252
Total Pages : 520 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (662 download)
Download or read book Makers of the Piano: 1820-1860 written by Martha Novak Clinkscale and published by Clarendon Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book continues the overview of early pianos begun in Clinkscale's Makers of the Piano 1700-1820 (OUP, 1993). Although a few of the biographies overlap, the majority of the makers are completely new. Approximately 2,400 makers and manufacturers and about 2,200 pianos are listed. Of this total, about 645 are English, the majority of whom were active in London; more than 200 of the London makers have not been discussed in previous publications.
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Total Pages : 490 pages
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Download or read book The Magazine Antiques written by and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Milo M. Naeve
Publisher : American Association for State
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Total Pages : 116 pages
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Download or read book Identifying American Furniture written by Milo M. Naeve and published by American Association for State. This book was released on 1998 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 36 brief sections, Naeve identifies the distinguishing characteristics of each style that makes up America's rich furniture heritage. Each trend is related to international stylistic movements, innovative craftsmen, influential publications, and the technological improvements that shaped them. Key factors of each style are highlighted for easy identification.
Author : Sewell C. Biggs Museum of American Art
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Total Pages : 308 pages
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Download or read book The Sewell C. Biggs Collection of American Art: Paintings and sculpture written by Sewell C. Biggs Museum of American Art and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Luke Beckerdite
Publisher : American Furniture Annual
ISBN 13 : 9780976734437
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (344 download)
Download or read book American Furniture 2008 written by Luke Beckerdite and published by American Furniture Annual. This book was released on 2008 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An annual publication forging a link between social history, American studies, and the decorative arts.
Author : Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
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Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Masterpieces of American Furniture from the Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute written by Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Masterpieces of American Furniture, edited by Anna Tobin D'Ambrosio, the Curator of Decorative Arts since 1989 at Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute Museum of Art, offers concise, engaging text accompanied by exquisite photography. Essays on more than 65 finely crafted examples of American furniture encompass nearly every nineteenth-century style and explore the careers of America's preeminent cabinetmakers and shops including Charles Baudouine, Hugh and John Finlay, Edward Hutchings, John Henry Belter, Herter Brothers, R. J. Horner & Co., Kimbel and Cabus, Kilian Brothers, J. and J. W. Meeks, Anthony Quervelle, and M. & H. Schrenkeisen Mfg. Co. Each footnoted essay offers perceptive new research into historical antecedents, stylistic preferences, manufacturing techniques, and the complex nature of the nineteenth-century furniture trade."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
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Total Pages : 2122 pages
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Download or read book The Cumulative Book Index written by and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 2122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
