AFA 22nd Anniversary

HAPPENINGS 22nd Anniversary 32 www.afamag.com | w ww.incollect.com Inlay and Marquetry Conference The Wonder of Wood, Decorative Inlay and Marquetry in Europe and America, 1600–1900 Winterthur Museum, Garden & Library 5105 Kennett Pike, Winterthur, Del. April 26-28, 2022 For details and to register: www.winterthur.org/calendar/the-wonder-of-wood-conference/ In April of 2022, Winterthur Museum, Garden & Library, together with the Philadelphia Museum of Art, will host a three-day conference focusing on decorative inlay and marquetry in all its forms and iterations. The conference will highlight a cross-section of contemporary scholarship on this unique art form, with presentations by 24 exceptional artists, craftsmen, conservators, and curators from Europe and America. Never before has such a talented and creative mix of specialists come together to explore this subject. Topics range from the marquetry traditions of Western Europe and Latin America to the decorative inlay of Kentucky and the Ohio River Valley, and so much more. Demonstrations by expert marqueteurs and inlay makers will document both the skills involved and the persistence of the art into the modern day. You do not want to miss this once-in-a-lifetime event. Generous scholarships are available for those who are eligible. An exceptional quality mid-18th century carved mahogany tripod table, having a finely figured tip-up top with pie crust edge on a solid box birdcage action above a turned, fluted column with gadrooned ring, spirally gadrooned knop and egg and dart ring, and having a pendent turned finial; on cabriole legs with shell carved hipped knees, terminating in leaf carved 337 East Fifty-Fifth Street, Kansas City, Missouri 64113 816.444.4622 • (cell) 816.522.4622 www.charlecoteantiques.com Quality Expertise Integrity pad feet. English Circa 1755 Measurements: Height: 27 1/4 inches .Diameter: 27 1/4 inches Provenance: Ronald Phillips Ltd Marquetry panel, attributed to Gerrit Jensen, London, ca. 1685. Courtesy of Burghley House, Lincolnshire.