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Property from Astor’s “Beechwood” Estate, Newport, Rhode Island
Beechwood Mansion at 580 Bellevue Avenue (famously known as “Millionaire’s Row”) in Newport, Rhode Island, was the summer “cottage” of Mr. and Mrs. William B. Astor, Jr. Mr. Astor purchased the thirty-nine room ocean-front mansion as an anniversary present for his wife in 1880 for $190,941.50.
From 1881 to 1906, Mrs. Astor (nee Caroline Webster Schermerhorn, 1831-1908), summered at Beechwood, where, as the creator of [...] Click here to continue reading.
.style1 { margin: 9px; } Property from the Collection of Pebble Hill Foundation, Thomasville, Georgia
Elizabeth Ireland Poe, known as Pansy, was the granddaughter of the Cleveland industrialist Howard Melville Hanna, brother of Marc A. Hanna, the Ohio senator who guided William McKinley to the United States Presidency in 1897. Mr. Hanna purchased Pebble Hill Plantation in 1896. Located just south of Thomasville, Georgia, Mr. Hanna and the following two generations of Hannas [...] Click here to continue reading.
Thomas A. Gray
Tom Gray of Old Salem, North Carolina is an heir of the R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company family fortune. A graduate of the Winterthur program in Early American Culture, Tom curated the corporate collection of the R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company. He partnered with his mother, Anne Pepper Gray, to found the Old Salem Toy Museum. Gray has a long association with the Old Salem Inc. historic restoration, including vice president [...] Click here to continue reading.
Mochaware
A type of English earthenware pottery, mochaware, first made in the late eighteenth century, is a multi-colored utilitarian pottery that features a wet-look surface decorated with crawling worms, cats’ eyes, seal life, rolling waves, alternating bands of color, trees and cross-hatches. It was imported into America during the nineteenth century and later produced here. Its name derives from “mukha” stone, a strain of moss agate found in the Yemeni city of Mukha. The [...] Click here to continue reading.
Jacob Fisher
“J. Fisher” is Jacob Fisher, a German who leased Thompson Harrington’s pottery in Lyons, New York in 1872. He married the daughter of John Burger, Sr., who operated a pottery in Rochester, New York where Fisher had worked since 1863. By 1878, Jacob Fisher took complete ownership of the pottery, turning it into the largest New York pottery by 1896. By 1902, Fisher retired and closed the pottery.
Trenton Falls, New York
The geologic feature known as Trenton Falls is located in Oneida County, New York and was a major tourist destination in the nineteenth century. The falls comprise several drops of the West Canada Creek totaling 270 feet over a series of limestone ledges creating seven major falls, including: Upper High Falls, Lower High Falls, Village Falls, Cascade of the Alhambra, Sherman Falls, Bridal Veil Falls and Mill Dam Falls.
Beginning [...] Click here to continue reading.
Toupie Feet
Derived from the French word for top (as in a child’s toy spinning top), toupie feet are turned top-shaped forms having a larger turning in the middle, narrowing to a small radius turning at the bottom which forms the foot.
Reference note by p4A editorial staff, 05.09.
The Meissen Marcolini Period
The Marcolini period of Meissen manufacture takes its name from Count Camillo Marcolini, Prime Minister of the German kingdom of Saxony, where the Meissen factory was located, who was also named director of the Meissen works in 1774, a position he held until 1814. Marcolini perfected the Neo-Classical style of Meissen forms and decoration introduced by his predecessor and its products are highly valued and sought after. Meissen products from [...] Click here to continue reading.
Axel Salto (1889-1961)
Considered one of the most important designers of ceramic art in Denmark. Salto worked primarily for Royal Copenhagen, which produced his designs from the 1930s until after his death. he is best known for his glazes and pottery displaying organic “grooved”, “budding” and “germinating” sculptural relief. His talents produced works in the graphic arts, jewelry and textiles. Salto won numerous awards during his careerincluding the Gran Prix at the 1951 [...] Click here to continue reading.
Franz Arthur Bischoff, 1864 to 1929
An Austrian by birth, an American by naturalization and a master ceramic decorator by trade, Franz Arthur Bischoff made a fateful visit to California in 1900. He was thirty-six, and the climate and scenery so captivated him that he initiated what was to be a major change in his life–from being a celebrated East Coast china painter to becoming a masterful Western landscape painter. He was twenty-one when [...] Click here to continue reading.
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