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Collection of Joanne and Jeffrey Klein
Collectors Joanne and Jeffrey Klein enjoy the eclectic mix of American folk art, painted furniture and modern sculpture and paintings. They love the juxtaposition of modern with traditional ranging from symbolism to widely varying textured painted and weathered surfaces. Their appreciation of form, color and texture is exhibited in their collection of exceptional painted furniture, weathervanes, redware pottery, hooked rugs and wood carvings.
Information courtesy of Keno Auctions, January 2013.
Bent Family Collection Provenance Note
Designed and furnished in the Mediterranean Revival Style, Quattro Venti is the last great private residence in Annisquam Village, a small fishing hamlet near Gloucester, Massachusetts. Quincy Bent, vice president in charge of production at Bethlehem Steel at the turn of the last century, built the summer retreat around 1912. His forebears purchased quarries in West Gloucester in 1820 and originally used the property, situated on the tip of [...] Click here to continue reading.
Preciosa
Meaning precious or beautiful in the Spanish and Portuguese languages.
It may refer to the subject of an 1821 play, Preziosa, by the German author Pius Alexander Wolff, with overture and music by Carl Maria von Weber. The title and subject of the play is taken from a 1613 novel of the same name by Cervantes. In involves Prezoisa, the beautiful daughter of a gypsy chief who falls in love with the [...] Click here to continue reading.
Stirrup Cups
The use and design of stirrup cups can be traced back to ancient Greece, in the use of rhytons for the drinking of libations. Rhytons were invariably modeled as the head of an animal or a mythological creature. They featured two openings – a wide opening at the top (or the neck of the animal) and a small hole at the bottom (or mouth of the animal). The drinker would hold them [...] Click here to continue reading.
The Eugene & Lucille Fleischer Collection of English and Continental Stirrup Cups
The collection of hundreds of stirrup cups assembled by Eugene Fleischer is as fine and comprehensive as any likely to be encountered. Renowned for his ceramic collections (his fine collection of Staffordshire and other 18th and 19th century English ceramics was sold to acclaim by Freeman’s in 2007), Eugene Fleischer gathered these stirrup cups over several decades, during visits to England and [...] Click here to continue reading.
Toshiko Takaezu (1922 to 2011)
In my life I see no difference between making pots, cooking, and growing vegetables.They are all so related.However there is a need for me to work in clay.It is so gratifying and I get so much joy from it, and it gives me many answers in my life.
Born in Hawaii to Japanese immigrants, Toshiko Takaezu studied at the University of Hawaii and, from 1951 to 1954, at the [...] Click here to continue reading.
Scroddle – Definition
Scroddle is a difficult word to track down. The second edition of the Oxford English Dictionary (1991) has no listing. Various art sources, including the Getty’s Art and Architecture Thesaurus, also seem to draw a blank. Regardless of the origins, the word and its various incarnations — scroddle, scroddled, scroddleware, scroddled ware, scrodle, scrotle, scrottle — refers to a type of pottery made out of scraps, the odds and ends of [...] Click here to continue reading.
The Rick and Terry Ciccotelli Folk Art Collection-An Introduction
Rick and Terry Ciccotelli’s love of folk art began with fraktur, the decorated manuscripts produced by Pennsylvania-German immigrants and their descendants. Because many fraktur artists were teachers, as Rick was early in his career, the Ciccotellis found themselves drawn to the material. The scriptural nature of the texts resonated particularly with Rick, as a former college professor of religious studies. Their growing interest in fraktur [...] Click here to continue reading.
Snow Hill Society
Snow Hill Society, an offshoot of Ephrata, was a pious community of Seventh Day Baptists who began meeting in the second half of the 18th century. Members of the Schneeberger (Snowberger) family were devoted followers. In 1798, when the group determined to officially establish a communal component and have its own regular house of worship, the Snowbergers provided space and formally arranged for their land, Snow Hill, to be given to [...] Click here to continue reading.
The Collection of Mr. and Mrs. James Grievo, Stockon, New Jersey
It all started around 1971. Just home from college and having a difficult time finding a job, I started going to house tag sales where I would find small interesting things to sell to antique dealers. It was something I really enjoyed doing, and 1 was amazed I was making real money for the first time. I soon realized that this was [...] Click here to continue reading.
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