Summer 2017

2017 Antiques & Fine Art 105 Ulysses Grant Dietz is chief curator and curator of decorative arts at the Newark Museum, New Jersey. Coffee pot, Ubaldo Vitali, Maplewood, N.J., 1998. Silver, glass. H. 13, W. 7½, D. 5¼ in. Gift of Movado, 1999 (99.32). Another aspect of silver’s high monetary and social value is that it was often on the cutting edge of design. “Silver is of the Moment” looks at the various notions of “modern” from the eighteenth century to the end of the twentieth. Silver has tended to change style faster and more frequently than any other class of decorative arts. A sleek postmodern coffee pot by New Jersey silversmith Ubaldo Vitali was designed for the Millennium for the celebrated watchmaker Movado. The glass fittings for this design were made by Vitali’s friend and fellow New Jerseyan Leonard DiNardo.