The Autumn 2020 issue of the magazine Antiques & Fine Art contains the first of a series of articles I am writing to introduce the Dietrich American Foundation’s furniture collection to a broader public. The Dietrich American Foundation was founded in 1963 by H. Richard Dietrich Jr. to collect and research American decorative and fine art, primarily … Continue reading A John Brocas High Chest
The Dominy Craftsmen of East Hampton
Winterthur Museum in Delaware has an online digital collection database. Click here to access it. In the tab “Tools” you’ll find many of the Dominy family woodworking tools illustrated in Charles Hummel’s “With Hammer in Hand: The Dominy Craftsmen of East Hampton, New York”, Charlottesville, 1968. Even if you own Hummel’s book, the new color … Continue reading The Dominy Craftsmen of East Hampton
A Geometric Inlay
Several people took notice of the geometric inlay on the base of the George Hoff clock and case dated 1768 shown in the previous post on “A Collector’s Vision: Highlights from the Dietrich American Foundation”, and asked about the related inlay on the wardrobe - or schrank - I mentioned in an answer to a comment. … Continue reading A Geometric Inlay
A Collector’s Vision: Highlights from the Dietrich American Foundation
The exhibition “A Collector’s Vision: Highlights from the Dietrich American Foundation” opened at the Philadelphia Museum of Art the first week of February 2020 and was scheduled to run through June 7, 2020. On March 13, all of the museums on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway in Philadelphia announced they were closing to help stem the … Continue reading A Collector’s Vision: Highlights from the Dietrich American Foundation
To an Oval Table
Last summer we had the chance to examine the first oval table that can be attributed to the workshop of John Head (1688-1754). According to entries in his account book, John Head sold approximately fifty-five oval tables between 1720 and 1737. Prices ranged from £0-18-0 for a pine table to £3-0-0, of which six were … Continue reading To an Oval Table
