Scrimshaw Honored Prince of Wales
This pair of mated horns engraved with iconography of Australia showcases the scrimshaw technique. Forty years ago in an antique shop, the somewhat sad face of the Prince of Wales …
What’s a Genre Painting?
BH owns an Italian watercolor genre painting featuring a classic genre style figuration. A buxom peasant girl wearing a very loose blouse listens to a man who leads a burro. …
Legendary Lobero Polearms
The audience waiting on the steps of the Lobero Theatre on Sunday night December 9, 1957, consisted of hip jazz lovers, some from the College Jazz Club, sponsors of the …
William Lionel Wyllie Leading Maritime Artist
TG sent me a lovely etching of Scarborough Harbor in England circa 1920 at thirteen by five inches. She asked if I know the artist. I do. The artist is …
What To Do With Fine Porcelain Dinnerware
What should I do with my fine porcelain dinnerware? I hear this question weekly. The market for ceramics softened across the board due in part to the lack of young …
American Quilt Saga
SB owns a red and white American quilt which belonged to her great-grandmother. Created in the late 19th century it shows the star pattern known as the shooting star, the …
Uncommon Yellow Steuben Glass
BL sent me a fabulous yellow Steuben glass set, a barware service designed and created in the late 1920s by Frederick Carder (1863-1963). He headed Steuben glass from 1903-1930. BL …
Quimper Figure a Product of Collaboration
SB sent me photos of a 19th century Quimper ceramic figure. It’s a relief-painted scullery maid, holding a gold-gilded metal cookpot, seated on a gold-gilded metal chair. Such an interesting …
Saints Painted by an Indigenous Peruvian
At a flea market JS purchased a small painting on canvas featuring two figures of saints. She never before saw such an unfortunate looking canine, and needed this work!! First, …
Salvador Dali’s 120th Birthday
Salvador Dali turns 120 years old this Spring. As his lithographs are one of the most appraised material, I present his most viewed work of art: the wrapping for the …