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Wagner Hollow Ware & Manufacturing Company
The Wagner Hollow Ware Company was founded in 1881 by Bernard and Milton Wagner in Sidney, Ohio. Initial casting efforts included hardware and hollow tin ware. Cast iron Wagner Ware cookware was introduced shortly after start-up. In 1891 the company evolved into the Wagner Manufacturing Company and aluminum cookware was introduced.
Wagner continued expansion in the 20th century with the introduction of Magnalite metal alloy cookware in [...] Click here to continue reading.
Vincent Chevalier (1771-1841)
Vincent Chevalier is an important figure in photographic history, the Parisian optician was instrumental in bringing together Louis Daguerre and Nicephore Niepce in 1829. Both had been working separately to record images chemically. Daguerre – artist, owner and operator of the Paris Diorama – wanted to fix images formed in the camera obscura, while Niepce had been experimenting since 1813 with the mechanical reproduction of images on pewter plates using sulfur, [...] Click here to continue reading.
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The Foster-Lemmens Collection
THREE GENERATIONS OF ANTIQUARIANS
Foster’s Antiques of Wexford, Pennsylvania, like so many American businesses, had a small grass roots beginning. Bud Foster returned from World War II and started the business with his wife Tommie in 1946 on Route 910 in Allegheny County. The timing could not have been more perfect. GFs were returning home, and with the help of government financing, were [...] Click here to continue reading.
Estate of Joseph Stanley
For more than 200 years, residents and visitors passing in and out of New Hope, PA along Old York Road have scene a handsome high-walled mansion on the hill. Built between 1816 and 1823, Cintra was the dream of William Maris, a romantic and financially reckless entrepreneur who modeled his grand residence on a Portuguese castle of the same name.
For twenty-three years, the interior of the New [...] Click here to continue reading.
Cheval Turc
Cheval Turc No. 2 (anterieur gauche leve, terrasse carree) is a bronze sculpture of a dramatically posed horse by the French sculptor Antoine-Louis Barye. Its title translates as Turkish Horse (left leg raised).
Barye sculpted the first example of this work circa 1840 and made three further models, including Numbers 2 (cast circa 1857 to 1875) and 3 (cast circa 1870 and after) These editions varied by which leg was raised off [...] Click here to continue reading.
Francois Linke, Master Cabinetmaker of the Belle Epoque Era
After the fall and exile of Emperor Napoleon III in 1875, there continued to be a fine appreciation of the decorative arts of 18th century France. Into this period the twenty year old Francois Linke (1855 to 1946) literally walked, having trudged on foot from Budapest to Paris for greater opportunities. After such an inauspicious beginning, Linke became arguably the greatest exponent of the Louis [...] Click here to continue reading.
Tumbaga
The origins of the word ‘tumbaga’ are obscure and complex, but the general consensus seems to indicate the word is a Malay word that means ‘copper, brass.’ This is a little misleading, because tumbaga is actually a mixture of copper and gold. (Cesium is the only other ‘colored’ metallic element – all other metallic elements are achromatic, greys and whites.) Today, the word is typically used to describe materials from pre-Columbian Central and [...] Click here to continue reading.
The Northern Furniture Company
Furniture with the Northern Furniture Company brand name was manufactured in Sheboygan, Wisconsin between the years 1904 and 1949. The company was originally founded by George B. Mattoon in 1881. The plant grew from a modest start until by 1900 it covered twelve acres and employed some 800 workers. This enterprise was known as the Mattoon Manufacturing Company until the founder’s death in 1904. The name was then changed to [...] Click here to continue reading.
Collection of Dr. Arthur M. Sackler
Dr. Arthur M. Sackler was one of America’s most important philanthropists and ardent art collectors. His passion for objects transcended any one category or time period, describing his own interest in art as “a long journey, a spiritual pilgrimage from my roots in the Western arts, a hegira which carried me to the aesthetics of the East.” In a collection that spanned genres from European terracotta and bronze [...] Click here to continue reading.
Bourdaloue
Formed as a small oval, slipper shaped vessel, the bourdalou is a lady’s urinal or chamber pot designed for use in public places such as churches or while traveling. The earliest surviving examples of bourdaloue are circa 1710 European products; these vessels were usually made of porcelain or pottery, particularly delft, but are known in silver or japanned metal. They were made throughout the Continent and in England, with export examples made in [...] Click here to continue reading.
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