Tag Archives: Chinese Export Porcelain

Chinese Export Porcelain, Swedish Iron, and Beer: A Union of Late 18th-Century Global Connections

Posted on May 5, 2017

An extraordinary pair of Chinese export porcelain mugs recently donated to Winterthur and featured in our Collecting for the Future: Recent Additions to the Winterthur Collection exhibition opening May 6, has a fascinating private as well as global history. Likely … Continue reading →

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Historians as Detectives

Posted on April 21, 2017

One of the best examples of the difficulty involved in dating and verifying a genuine antique is represented by the Chinese export porcelain in the Intent section of the Treasures on Trial exhibition. These objects were not sold in a … Continue reading →

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How I Became A Collector

Posted on October 29, 2014

Born into a family of collectors, I grew up in a home filled with art and antiques inherited from my mother’s family: Philadelphia Chippendale; Baltimore Federal furniture; and paintings by Winslow Homer, Maurice Prendergast, and Childe Hassam. Our house reflected … Continue reading →

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