| Beaker Vase |
Spring 2004
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American homes and were generally placed for display on fireplace mantels. George Washington owned a set of Chinese porcelain blue and white garniture vases with gilt decoration, which included...
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| Birdbaths |
Spring 2004
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Leisure time was on the rise by the late nineteenth century, resulting in an increased interest in gardening, conservation, and spending time out-of-doors. The economic gains...
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| Cuban Elegance |
Spring 2004
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The largest island in the Caribbean Sea, with over five hundred years of written history, Cuba has the oldest colonial heritage in the Western Hemisphere. This spectacularly-illustrated volume...
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| Different By Design |
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“The height of style.” “In the neatest taste.” “The most popular fashion.” All of these phrases have been used in preceding periods to describe fashionable furniture. Yet pieces that were considered stylish in one location were not always in vogue in ano...
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| Evergreen House |
Spring 2004
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Built in 1858 as a grand Italianate residence by the Broadbent family of Baltimore, Evergreen House was purchased twenty years later by Baltimore & Ohio Railroad president John Work Garrett for his son, T. Harrison Garrett...
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| Evergreen House |
Spring 2004
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Built in 1858 as a grand Italianate residence by the Broadbent family of Baltimore, Evergreen House was purchased twenty years later by Baltimore & Ohio Railroad president...
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| For What It's Worth: The Key to Insuring Your Collection |
Spring 2004
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In the mid-1980s, a tax law was changed that affected every collector in the United States. Previously, when collectors experienced the loss of a single object or...
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| George Cope: An Artist's Life |
Spring 2004
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George Cope (1855–1929) was an artist who stayed close to home. He began his career painting the lush Brandywine River Valley landscape in Chester County, Pennsylvania, and its wildlife and architecture. He later explored...
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| Noteworthy Sales: John Singer Sargent |
Spring 2004
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From a private collection, this charming work has only been exhibited publicly once in the last forty years, during a 1989 traveling exhibition in...
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| Noteworthy Sales: Mary Cassatt |
Spring 2004
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Pennsylvania native Mary Cassatt was exhibiting to great acclaim in the Paris Salons from 1868 to the mid-1870s when...
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