Delaware Antiques Show 2024

Student Scholars lectures sponsored by Winterthur Program in American Material Culture Presents Saturday, November 16 | 2:00 pm Steven Baltsas , Lois F. McNeil Fellow Of the Earth: Neoclassicism and Natural History in a Philadelphia Center Table Baltsas shows how a cabinetmaker in antebellum Philadelphia harnessed the city’s insatiable attraction to ancient and natural history in his creation of the ideal center table. Inlaid with floriated brass patterns against flame-like mahogany crotch veneer, this peerless classical table testifies to intellectual culture’s impact on furniture design in the early nineteenth-century Atlantic world. Lanah Swindle , Lois F. McNeil Fellow “To Imitate China”: A Close Reading of a Pair of Eighteenth-Century Hand Screens Swindle grapples with anti-Chinese sentiment in imagery preserved on a pair of eighteenth-century hand screens. The survival of these objects, made between 1759 and 1770 for fashionable circles in London and Paris, presents an opportunity to reflect on the dissemination of racial stereotypes of Chinese people through decorative art forms made by and for Euro-Atlantic audiences in the eighteenth century. Graham Titus , Lois F. McNeil Fellow Performance and Pleasure at the Early Modern Table By 1650, a nascent English glass industry supplied elite diners with the tableware necessary for increasingly luxurious and performative feasts. Through the discussion of a seventeenth-century glass salver in Winterthur’s collection, Titus explores changing dining practices and foodways at a defining moment for the modern meal. STUDENT SCHOLARS — 8 —