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Lucia and Arthur Mathews Arthur Mathews, a painter, muralist, and craftsman was born in Markesan, Wisconsin in 1860. His family moved to Oakland, California when Arthur was six years old. His first art instruction was from Helen Tanner Brodt while he was in high school. As a teenager, he worked in his father’s architectural office, but later enrolled at the San Francisco School of Design where he studied with Virgil Williams while working as [...] Click here to continue reading. John Harper Banks John Harper established his manufacturing business during the 1800′s in Willenhall, Staffordshire, England next to his foundry, Albion Works. The company produced a great number of iron decorative goods, including mechanical and still banks, throughout the latter parts of the 19th century and into the early 20th century. The Harper Company ceased manufacturing banks in 1953 after producing the Crown and Throne still banks in commemoration of Queen Elizabeth II ‘s coronation. Charles Greene & Henry Greene, Architects Architects and furniture designers, Charles Sumner Greene (1868 to 1957) and his brother Henry Mather Greene (1870 to 1954) were born in Brighton, Ohio to old New England families. They moved to St. Louis in 1874 and enrolled at the Manual Training School of Washington University. They would complete their formal education in 1891 from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in architecture and then began apprenticeships in Boston. [...] Click here to continue reading. Modern Gothic Furniture The term “modern Gothic” in the Decorative Arts refers to furniture and decorative objects with clean lines made from about 1870 to 1890. Also known as “art furniture” and “Queen Anne Revival”, depending on the creator, the pieces reflect the inspiration of the English “reform movement”. This movement reflected a change in taste away from the French inspired “ostentatious” highly carved Rococo Revival designs of the middle 19th century toward the [...] Click here to continue reading. Types of Ivory and the Legalities of the Ivory Trade What is Ivory? Strictly speaking, the term “ivory” refers only to the whitish-yellow material that makes up the tusks of mammals, such as elephants and walruses. Other related materials, such as that which comprises the teeth of sperm whales and, upon occasion, hippopotamuses, is often called ivory, but technically, is not. Two other related types of material are the ivory from the East Indian [...] Click here to continue reading. Chateau Lafite Rothschild From an auction catalogue note by Serena Sutcliffe M.W., Head of Sotheby’s International Wine Department: “Together with Ausone, Lafite’s wines age in the most ethereal way, spanning the centuries with ease. Lafite in the 1990s and into this century has benefited from the extraordinary wine-making brilliance of Charles Chevallier, who has added extra lustre to this fabulous terroir. When serving Lafite, decant it well in advance of drinking as its bouquet [...] Click here to continue reading. North State Pottery Co. Like Jugtown Pottery, North State was founded by entrepreneurs who appreciated pottery but were not potters themselves. Rebecca Palmer Cooper started North State Pottery Company as a hobby in 1924. Her sole potter and designer was Jonah (Jonie) Owen who she hired away from Long Cabin Pottery. Some of Jonah’s work from 1924 to 1925 preceded the company’s first stamp and was unmarked. Sales at the North Carolina State Fair [...] Click here to continue reading. Billy Ray Hussey Contemporary self-taught potter Billy Ray Hussey (born 1955) and his wife Susan, own Southern Folk Pottery Collectors Society, a museum, pottery studio, kiln, retail shop and auction house in Bennett, North Carolina. SFPCS’s highly popular absentee auctions are held twice a year – spring and fall. Hussey’s earliest work was as a boy in the shop of M.L. Owens, his great-uncle. He made a pair of pottery dogs for author Nancy [...] Click here to continue reading. J. B. Cole Jacon B. (JB) Cole (1869 to 1943) was the patriarch of a North Carolina pottery dynasty that continues into the 21st century. After 20 years working for other potters in the Catawba Valley and in the Seagrove area, J.B. established his own shop in 1922. Smart, energetic and ambitious, he catered to the tourist trade by supplying hand-made mass produced art pottery in bright colors. J.B. left back-breaking traditional [...] Click here to continue reading. Jugtown Pottery Jugtown Pottery and its founders, North Carolina natives Jacques and Juliana Busbee, revolutionized pottery making in the Seagrove area of North Carolina. That revolution began in the late 1920′s when the Busbees brought a young and impressionable country potter Ben Owen (1904 to 1982) to museums in New York City and Washington, D.C. That experience and the vision it stimulated continues to energize the 90+ potters that work in and around Seagrove [...] Click here to continue reading. |
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