New York Antiques Weekend 2019
EVENTS > NYC ANTIQUES WEEKEND
Antiques Weekend with the Decorative Arts Trust
January 16–19, 2019
New York, NY
Wednesday, January 16
- Wunsch Americana Awards Ceremony
Celebrate with us at 6 p.m. at Christie’s as the Trust is recognized for our leadership in the decorative arts field with the Eric M. Wunsch Award.
Friday, January 18
- Tour of the Exhibition Augmenting the Cannon, Recent Acquisitions of American Neo-Classical Decorative Arts
Join Liz Feld, Managing Director at Hirschl & Adler Galleries, for an up-close look at sixty masterpieces of Neo-Classical furniture, ceramics, embroidery, silver, and glass made between 1800-1840. - Tours and Reception in the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s American Wing
We reconvene in the late afternoon for two tours at the Met:- Alice Cooney Frelinghuysen, Anthony W. and Lulu C. Wang Curator of American Decorative Arts, and Adrienne Spinozzi, Assistant Research Curator, lead us through the spectacular and comprehensive Ellison Pottery Collection.
- Alyce Perry Englund, Assistant Curator of American Decorative Arts and Adam Bowett, Independent Furniture Historian offer a behind-the-scenes tour of the special exhibition Chippendale’s Director: The Designs and Legacy of a Furniture Maker, which celebrates the tricentenary of the legendary cabinetmaker.
Following our tours, participants are invited to attend a special lecture and reception hosted by the Friends of the American Wing.
Saturday, January 19
- Tour of the Winter Antiques Show with lunch
We are treated to private tours led by our knowledgeable friends in the trade as well as a visit to the Show’s special loan exhibition organized by the Nantucket Historical Association, Collecting Nantucket / Connecting the World: Nantucket Historical Association, highlighting the Association’s best paintings, craft, and folk art. Lunch follows in the elegant Board of Officers Room designed by Herter Brothers - Visit to a Private Collection
Members will have the special opportunity to visit a beautiful Upper East Side apartment. Our hosts have a passion for folk art, and we will encounter an impressive collection that has been cultivated over several decades and includes paintings, weathervanes, 18th- and 19th-century furniture, hearth rugs, ceramics, and drawings.
- View of Cadwalader family chair in Chippendale’s Director: The Designs and Legacy of a Furniture Maker on view at the Metropolitan Museum until January 27, 2019
- Frederick Hurten Rhead (designer), H.L. (unidentified decorator), Roseville Pottery, Zanesville, Ohio. Vase, ca. 1904-8. Earthenware, H. 11 ½ in. (29.2 cm). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Gift of Robert A. Ellison Jr., 2018 (2018.294.229)
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- Simon Chaudron (1758–1846), Philadelphia, Covered Ewer, about 1807–09, Silver, 16 1/2 in. high, Weight: 60.3 oz. Troy, Signed (with touch, in ribbon, under base): chaudron; inscribed (with engraving, within wreath, under spout): amc; (below wreath): A Gift of Gratitude
- Chaudron Ewer Detail
- Attributed to Isaac Vose & Son (active 1819-25), with Thomas Seymour (1771–1848) as foreman (active in the Vose shop 1819–25), Boston, Work Table, about 1819–24, Rosewood (secondary woods: ash, mahogany, pine, and Spanish cedar), with die-rolled gilt-brass moldings filled with lead, ormolu mounts, steel castors, and fabric work bag, 29 1/2 in. high, 23 in. wide, 17 1/4 in. deep
- Johnston Brookes & Co., London (active 1814–35), Retailed by Bemis & Vose, Boston, Massachusetts (active 1825–31), Two-light Argand Chandelier, about 1825. Gilt and patinated bronze, with lamp mechanism, glass shades, blown, frosted, and wheel-cut, and glass chimneys, 31 3/8 in. high, 17 7/8 in. long, 10 1/2 in. wide, Signed and inscribed, with embossed brass labels (attached to one burner tube): johnston brookes / & c°̤ / manufacturers / london.; (attached to the second burner tube): bemis & vose / boston