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Kugel Christmas Ornaments Often said to be the first manufactured Christmas ornaments, kugels became popular in Germany around 1850 when silvered glass was invented. Translated from the German, kugel means ball or sphere – its most common form – but they also were made in the form of grape bunches, and teardrops, with hand-blown eggs, pears and apples more rarely found. Rarest of all are mold blown kugels resembling pine cones, artichokes and berry [...] Click here to continue reading. Solomon Purdy, Ohio Potter Solomon Purdy began potting circa 1820 in Putnam, Ohio, where he made utilitarian and slip decorated redware as well as roofing tiles. He lived for a time in the German community of Zoar, circa 1820 to 1850, before returning to Atwater, Ohio in 1850, where his son Gordon was potting stoneware circa 1850 to 1870. Solomon Purdy’s stoneware is variously marked “S. Purdy Zoar”, “S. Purdy Atwater” as well as [...] Click here to continue reading. The Hubbell Trading Post at Ganado, Arizona It is largely accepted that Juan Lorenzo Hubbell was among the most successful and influential traders with the Navajo. Born to an American father and Mexican mother, Hubbell purchased his first trading post in 1876, and in 1878, he purchased a post at Ganado, Arizona. Although he (and his sons) would go on to own twenty-four trading posts and a warehouse to serve them all, it was [...] Click here to continue reading. A History of the Norton Family Pottery in Bennington, Vermont and Marks Used One of the most iconic objects from 18th- and 19th-century is stoneware, particularly pieces with cobalt decoration, and few people did cobalt-decorated salt-glazed stoneware pottery better than the Norton family of Vermont. The Norton pottery dynasty actually predates Vermont’s statehood, founded as it was by Captain John Norton in 1785, although stoneware was not what was initially manufactured. Unmarked redware pieces [...] Click here to continue reading. Eugene de Blaas (Austrian/Italian, 1843 to 1932) A noted 19th and 20th century Austrian portraitist and genre painter, Eugene de Blaas was born near Rome on July 24th 1843 into a successful artistic family. His brother Julian von Blaas was an accomplished animal and military painter, and his father Karl von Blaas was a notable history painter and teacher. Because his father was, for a time, employed as a professor of fine arts at [...] Click here to continue reading. Francois Xaver Habermann (German 1721 to 1796) A German printer and publisher working in Augsburg, Germany, Habermann is known for a series of hand colored engravings of American cities, including New York and Boston, during the Revolutionary period. This series was titled Collection des Prospects, and is popularly known as Vues d’ Optiqu. The title was printed in reverse above the view so that it would read properly in the optical viewer. Individual views [...] Click here to continue reading. Linsey-Woolsey Linsey-woolsey is a fabric that is exactly what it sounds like: a combination of linen and wool woven together to create a coarse, durable fabric, sometimes woven plain or as a twill (for twill, think the diagonal weave pattern often seen on denim). “Lin” is an old term for flax, the plant whose fibers are used for linen. Occasionally, it’s referred to as “woolsey-linsey” or by the blending of the two terms, “wincey.” [...] Click here to continue reading. Collection of Gertrude Dittmar, Colts Neck, New Jersey In 1943, from the army camp where he was stationed, my father wrote to my grandparents asking them to store for him an 18th century table and corner cupboard he’d just purchased for the home he would make with my mother after the war. Once in that home, these two pieces were gradually joined by others, until the farmhouse my parents share for over half a [...] Click here to continue reading. Leigh E. and Christine Robinson Collection Leigh Robinson (1882 to 1960) was born in Cedar Falls, Iowa, the son of a contractor, and graduated in 1904 from the Iowa State Teacher’s College with a Master’s of Didactics. Teaching first in Iowa, and later in Montana and Washington State, he joined the U.S. Customs Service, serving first in Seattle and then from 1907 to 1917 in Blaine, Washington. As a child, Robinson became intrigued by [...] Click here to continue reading. Mary Duke Biddle Trent Semans (1920 to 2012) An American heiress and philanthropist, Mary Duke Biddle Trent Semans was the great-granddaughter of tobacco industrialist and Duke University benefactor Washington Duke. She was born Mary Duke Biddle on February 21, 1920 to Mary Lillian Duke and Anthony J. Drexel Biddle Jr. Her father was the former U.S. Ambassador to Poland and Spain. Semans was raised in Manhattan, where she attended the Hewitt School in New [...] Click here to continue reading. |
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