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The Dirk Van Erp Studio The Dirk Van Erp Studio, also know as The Copper Shop operated in San Francisco, California from 1908 to 1977. Principle artists working in the studio included its founder, Dirk Van Erp (1860 to 1933), D’arcy Gaw and Agatha Van Erp. Working with a staff of skilled craftsmen and women these artists produced a line of high quality copper vases, accessories and lighting. Information courtesy of Craftsman Auctions, September 2002. John William Boor, M.D. (1947 to 2007) John William Boor, M.D. was born and raised in the city of Philadelphia. Dr. Boor’s love for the fine arts stemmed from his fascination with American history and his tremendous pride and respect for everything related to or originating from the great colonial city of Philadelphia. To many he was their trusted doctor, specializing in Neurology. Others knew him as a collector of Americana. He had an [...] Click here to continue reading. Kaioke – Japanese Shell Game The shell game kaioke or “hokkai” was played with 360 double-valved shells (kai), half of the shells enclosed a poem, the other half a drawing which corresponded to it; the shells were distributed one by one and the goal was to match the poem with the drawing; whoever was left with an ‘orphan’ lost the game. Information courtesy of Sotheby’s October, 2007. The Wiener Werkstatte The Austrian equivalent of the English Arts and Crafts Movement, the Wiener Werkstatte [VEEN-er VEHRK-shtet-teh] (German for “Vienna Workshop”) was a direct offshoot from the fin-de-siacle Vienna Secession. Together, Josef Hoffmann (1870 to 1956) and Koloman Moser founded the Wiener Werkstatte Produktiv-Gemeinschaft von Kunsthandwerken, Wien (the Viennese Workshop and Production Cooperative of Art Works in Vienna) in 1903 as an association of artists and craftspeople working together to manufacture fashionable household [...] Click here to continue reading. Richard & Rosemarie Machmer Provenance The following remembrances were publishing the Pook and Pook auction catalogue for this sale, held on October 24 and 25, 2008. For coverage of this sale, please see the account in Maine Antique Digest, published in January of 2009, available at http://www.maineantiquedigest.com/stories/index.html?id=1014. About thirty-five years ago, I traveled around two hours to an evening country auction in Schnecksville, Pennsylvania. As I walked into the auction house, facing me was [...] Click here to continue reading. Oldenburg, Indiana The Midwestern Germanic settlement of Oldenburg, Indiana, was initially settled in 1817 by Pennsylvania emigre William George and his brother, Oldenburg soon became the destination of the many German immigrants landing in Cincinnati. In 1837, William Flaspholer and William Ronnenbaum purchased the George brothers’ farm and platted the town, making provisions for a park, school, church, cemetery, and market place. As the nineteenth century progressed, more immigrants, many of whom had come [...] Click here to continue reading. Tunbridge Wares The wood parquetry or marquetry decorated wares bearing this name derive from the small town of Tunbridge Wells in the English shire of Kent where the process was first developed in the late seventeenth century. A decoration of veneer found on small boxes, gameboards, picture frames and trays, the Tunbridge decoration was created when small sticks or strips of differently colored natural wood of six or so inches long were glued together [...] Click here to continue reading. Netsuke Overview Having no pockets in their traditional kimono dress, the Japanese, beginning in the 17th century, developed a miniature sculptural form called a netsuke (pronouced net-ski in the west, but closer to netskeh in Japanese) to function as a toggle securing personal items to their robe’s sash (called an obi). Netsuke are mostly a feature of Japanese male culture. Women would tuck small personal items into their sleeves, but men suspended their accesories [...] Click here to continue reading. Vinaigrettes A vinaigrette was a small box with hinged lid and internal hinged grill containing a piece of natural sponge soaked in a aromatic vinegar, used to counteract unpleasant odors. The earliest known examples date from the 15th century but they are rare in silver before 1780. The vast majority were made in the 19th century and they can be found up to 1900. Most were rectangular but there are many other examples in [...] Click here to continue reading. Crazy for Tea We’ve all seen the movies depicting English life in the 19th and early 20th centuries where a charming hostess calls on Flora, the parlor maid, to lay the tea for company. Flora soon reappears with a gleaming tea service and a plate of crumbly biscuits and sandwiches, and then retreats leaving the guests sipping and chatting. This English, and later the American, infatuation with tea may be easier to understand with [...] Click here to continue reading. |
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