New York Antiques Weekend 2019

Antiques Weekend with the Decorative Arts Trust

January 16–19, 2019
New York, NY

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.

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.

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)

: 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

: 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