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The Swisegood/Long School of Cabinetmaking Based in Davidson County, North Carolina, this attribution covers one of the best documented groups of furniture in the Piedmont region. The work of John Swisegood (1796 to 1874) and his apprentice Jonathan Long (1803 to 1858) is part of a larger body of work produced by at least 15 cabinetmakers in the Davidson and Rowan County region working 1800 to 1850. To date, the 1801 “Long” chest in [...] Click here to continue reading. The Seagram Building From its completion in 1957, the Seagram Building, on Park Avenue in New York City, has been considered a landmark and one of the most important and influential buildings of the Twentieth Century. Designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, in collaboration with Philip Johnson, this is the famed Bauhaus master’s first office tower and only work in New York. Commissioned by Samuel Bronfman, founder and head of Seagram Distillers, the [...] Click here to continue reading. Robert Hooper, 18th Century Marblehead Merchant Born in 1709 to a tallow-maker in the fishing village of Marblehead, Massachusetts, Robert Hooper witnessed, and helped facilitate, the rise of this village into a place of significant influence and wealth in late 18th century New England. While it was an accident of birth and continued good health that allowed Robert Hooper’s life to span most of the 18th century, it was his diligence and wise investments [...] Click here to continue reading. American Pilgrim Period – 1620 to 1720 The Pilgrim Period (or century) of American furniture begins in 1620 with the landing of the Mayflower at Plymouth, Massachusetts and ends in 1690, 1700 or 1720 depending on whether you wish to include the William and Mary style in the Period. In order to keep styles and periods from overlapping each other, we have chosen to end the Pilgrim Period in 1720 when the Queen Anne [...] Click here to continue reading. Meerschaum Pipes A German term, meerschaum literally means “sea-foam,” alluding to the ancient belief that it was the compressed whitecaps of waves. In reality, meerschaum is a hydrated magnesium silicate, composed of the fossilized shells of tiny sea creatures that fell to the ocean floor millions of years ago. It is meerchaum’s rigid crystalline structure, the arrangement of the magnesium, silicon, oxygen, and hydrogen atoms, that makes sepiolite (the clay mineral that is identified [...] Click here to continue reading. Door of Hope Mission Dolls By Thomas P. Heinecke, Ohio p4A.com representative Carved pear wood dolls with hand-painted details dressed mostly in period Chinese working class garb, originating from the Door of Hope Christian Mission in Shanghai, China, about 1900 to 1935. The Door of Hope Mission in Shanghai was established around 1900 with the goal of providing young underprivileged women and girls the marketable skills necessary to support themselves. Some of [...] Click here to continue reading. Chalkware Sometimes called the “poor man’s Staffordshire”, chalkware is a misnomer for decorative figures or plaques made of plaster or plaster of Paris. The ware was developed in the mid-19th century as a means of producing affordable replicas of the popular, and pricey, Staffordshire pottery figures of the mid- to late 1800s. Pieces were made in half molds and the two parts cemented together, leaving a hollow center. Some large pieces were cast in [...] Click here to continue reading. R. J. Horner Tall Case Clocks Some of America’s finest carved tall case clocks were made by the R.J. Horner & Co. of New York. Horner was one of the premier cabinetmakers of the late Nineteenth Century. His clients included Andrew Carnegie and J. Pierpont Morgan. The works are by J.J. Elliott, Ltd. of London, who were the most prestigious clockmakers of the day. Only the finest clocks were outfitted with Elliott tubular bell [...] Click here to continue reading. The Illinois Watch Company The Illinois Watch Company was founded in 1870 at Springfield, Illinois by a group of local businessmen, including John T. Stuart, a former law partner of Abraham Lincoln. The company produced its first watch in 1872 and named it the Stuart after this founder. The Illinois company made many watch models in its early years under numerous model names, including a line of high quality railroad watches. The company followed [...] Click here to continue reading. The J. Chein & Co. Toy Manufacturers Julius Chein (pronounced ‘chain’) established J. Chein & Co. in 1903 with a factory in Harrison, New Jersey. By the 1920′s Chein was a leading manufacturer of lithographed tin toys, many of them wind-up or mechanical toys, with over 250 employees. Although lithography was a 19th century technology, it wasn’t until the 1920′s that toy manufacturers began extensively utilizing it. Lithography had many advantages for toy makers, [...] Click here to continue reading. |
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