The Practical Book of American Antiques: Exclusive of Furniture, Revised with a New SupplementLippincott, 1927 - 390 páginas |
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Albany architectural Baltimore beakers Benjamin blue bobbin lace Boston bottles cartouche carving Caspar Wistar Colonial colonists colour Conn contour Courtesy of Pennsylvania coverlets craft cream pitchers crude decorative dishes Dutch eagle early American EARLY NINETEENTH CENTURY eighteenth century embellishment embroidered England engraved finial fleur-de-lis flowers fractur painting Frishmuth Collection furniture gadrooned green handle Hartford Haven Henry Chapman Mercer HOOKED RUGS Industrial Art James John Joseph lace lettering makers manufacture metal Metropolitan Museum Mexican Maiolica Middletown motifs moulded Moulton mugs Museum and School numerous ornamentation oval pattern pellet Pennsylvania German Pennsylvania Museum period pewter Philadelphia pieces plate illustration Porringer pots pottery pressed glass rectangle Roman Salem sampler Samuel SANDWICH GLASS School of Industrial script scroll seventeenth sgraffito shaded shaped rectangle shaped shield silver silversmiths smiths spoons stitch sugar bowls surface tangle tankards tea-pots Thomas tion ware William wood wrought York
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Página 285 - The first expressions of co-operation were found in the co-operative and communistic colonies which settled on the land in the latter part of the Eighteenth Century and the early part of the Nineteenth Century.
Página 127 - These noteworthy instances of similarity, while doubtless partly attributable to fashion, seem to have been mainly due to a widely diffused and dominant conception of line prevalent among artists and craftsmen of contemporary date. For the sake of example, attention may be directed to the rotund, swelling curves and much-shaped contours in evidence during the latter part of the seventeenth century and the early years of the eighteenth, in the reigns of William and Mary and of Queen Anne. In architecture...
Página 135 - it is almost as ill-bred to refuse a cup of tea when it is offered to you as it would be indiscreet for the mistress of the house to propose a fresh one, when the ceremony of the spoon has notified her what your intentions are on this point.
Página 135 - I partook of most excellent tea, and I should be even now drinking it, I believe, if the Ambassador had not charitably notified me at the twelfth cup that I must put my spoon across it when I wished to finish with this sort of warm water. He said to me : " It is almost as ill-bred to refuse a cup of tea when it is offered to you as it would be for the mistress of the house to propose a fresh one when the ceremony of the spoon has notified her that we no longer wish to partake of it.
Página 111 - AVilliam, the elder, became Lieutenant Governour and discharged the duties of Governour, in the absence of Governour Shute, from 1716 to 1728, and also in 1729, following the death of Governour Burnett, while the younger son, Jeremiah Dummer junior, likewise distinguished himself in public life for a considerable period. John Cony (1655-1722), the brother-in-law of Jeremiah Dummer, from whom it is likely he received his training in craftsmanship, was another silversmith well known for his excellent...
Página 146 - In contour, beakers re10 mained much the same, and some of the slightly differing forms were made contemporaneously, so that it is not advisable to attempt to classify them in a chronological contour sequence. The beaker may have a handle. STANDING CUPS AND GOBLETS on baluster stems, with moulded foot, while sometimes made at an early date for domestic use, belonged rather to the very end of the eighteenth century and the first part of the nineteenth as articles of domestic appointment. The great...
Página 111 - On the 25th past, Departed this life Jeremiah Dummer, Esq.; in the 73rd year of his Age, after a long retirement, under great infirmities of Age and Sickness, having served his country faithfully in several Publick Stations, and obtained...
Página 79 - Fire, feme stich, finny stitch, new stitch, chain stitch, Brave bred stitch, fisher stitch, Irish stitch, and Queen stitch, The Spanish stitch, Rosemary stitch, and mowle stitch, The smarting whip stitch, back stitch, and cross stitch; All these are good, and this we must allow, And they are everywhere in practice now.
Página 262 - to paint ye Altar piece and Communion Table, and write such sentences of Scripture as shall be thought proper thereon." On Tuesday, September 5, 1721 : " The Vestry agrees with Mr. Gustavus Hesselius to draw ye History of our Blessed Saviour and ye Twelve Apostles at ye last supper...
Página 108 - After a little keeping at school I was taken to help my father plant corn which I attended to for several years together; and then by God's good hand I fell to...