| Nantucket Notes |
Summer 2001
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As Nantucketers know, art and antiques reflecting a seafaring heritage bring home the spirit of the Faraway Island......
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| New Hampshire's Americana Marathon |
Summer 2001
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There are three major Americana events in the country—New York in mid-January, the Philadelphia......
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| New York Minutes |
Summer 2001
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This fall, Tom Devenish, purveyor of fine late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth-century English furniture, plans to move his New York gallery to a typical brownstone with an atypical......
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| Painting of a Stranded Whale on the Beach of Katwijk |
Summer/Fall 2001
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We have recently purchased a Dutch painting depicting a stranded whale on the beach......
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| Pair of New York Chippendale Walnut Side Chairs |
Summer/Fall 2001
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These chairs, numbered XII and XIII, are part of a large set made for New York City banker and merchant Samuel Verplanck. The set was presumably commissioned between......
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| Prized Possessions: The Story of Ceramics in Everyday Life |
Summer/Fall 2001
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For its 2001 season (May through October), Strawbery Banke Museum in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, is featuring......
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| Sampler by Elizabeth Searles |
Summer/Fall 2001
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This recently rediscovered sampler belongs to a group of ten outstanding samplers worked under the instruction of Judith Hayle of Ipswich......
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| Spectacular Pintail Drake Decoy |
Summer/Fall 2001
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This pristine pintail duck is a wonderful example of a working decoy that exhibits strong folk art qualities; this particular model is referred to as a “beaver tail” because of its broad tail. Brothers Lem and Steve Ward made their ducks in such......
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| The Gretchen Keller Glass Collection at Peabody Essex Museum |
Summer/Fall 2001
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The first half of the twentieth century will long be remembered as the golden age of collecting, when many of the most important collections of American decorative......
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| Vermont Vignette |
Summer 2001
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If you’re taking the road less traveled this summer, wind your way to rural Vermont for a rustic showcase of period country......
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