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    THE WINTER SHOW FREE AND ONLINE 24/7

    Wednesday, January 27th, 2021

    THE Winter Show in New York and all its programmes are free and open to the public online. Visitors can peruse 5,000 years of art, antiques, and design presented by 60 internationally renowned dealers. Search the fair’s viewing rooms, virtual gallery spaces, gallery talks and listen in on panel discussions featuring leaders in the art and design worlds.  It runs until January 31.

    Illustrated below is a printed and painted faience dish designed by Félix Bracquemond (1833-1914) for Eugène Rousseau (1827-90) and manufactured by Creil et Montereau. It is being shown at H. Blairman and Sons Ltd.

    PART OF A 53-Piece ‘Service Rousseau’ – Paris 1866-75 AT H. BLAIRMAN

    THE WINTER SHOW ONLINE NOW UNDERWAY IN NEW YORK

    Friday, January 22nd, 2021

    In New York the Winter Show gets underway online for the first time ever today.  With 60 leading international exhibitors the fair runs until January 31. This year it is available to everyone from the comfort  of their own home.  If you visit the online stand of London antique furniture specialists Ronald Phillips you will be met at the entrance by a pair of Irish George III oval mirror girandoles c1780. They retain the original silvered brass candle arms and one original plate (the other is an 18th century replacement).  Ronald Phillips say that it is extremely rare to find single candle arms attached to the frame, which in this example is of an unusually small sale.

    Irish George III oval mirror girandoles 

    WINTER SHOW SETS OUT TO BROADEN COLLECTOR BASE

    Sunday, January 20th, 2019

    A c1905 Tiffany Wisteria lamp designed by Clara Driscoll at Macklow Gallery

    There is definitely a whiff of “if you need to ask the price you probably shouldn’t be there” about it at New York’s Winter Show.  Formerly the Winter Antiques Show this is a showplace for more than just billionaires.  Like just about everyone else in the global art and antiques market the organisers are making efforts to broaden their scope to attract new, younger, less wealthy collectors.  To spare the blushes of newcomers they have introduced an easy to read scale of coloured price tagging with legends like under $3,000, $5,000, $10,000 and so on.

    The show reflects the current trend towards cross collecting and in the past two years contemporary design has been allowed in.
    The leading art, antiques and design fair in America attracts a global audience to its Upper East Side location at the Park Avenue Armoury.  The focus is very much on quality and about 88% of what is on offer is antique.
    Old Tiffany lamps and jewellery, magnificent English and American furniture and fine delftware rubs shoulders with ancient Egyptian art, Roman sculpture from the first century AD, Japanese art from the Edo period, Faberge,  Arts and Crafts, contemporary table lamps by Ayala Serfaty made of ceramic, glass tubing and polymer membrane, American art from Marsden Hartley to Basquiat and a series of miniatures by the American artist Maxine Helfman (born 1952) called “Forefathers” chronicling the 18 slave owning presidents of the US.  Objects on offer, all carefully vetted by an international committee to ensure that big buyers get exactly what it says on the tin, span more than 5,000 years from antiquity to contemporary photography.
    The Winter Show is an annual benefit for the East Side House Settlement, a community based organisation serving The Bronx and North Manhattan.  The 2019 loan exhibition, Collecting Nantucket, Connecting the World, celebrates 125 years of collecting by the Nantucket Historical Association.  It presents the best the Association has to offer in painting, craft and folk arts. Nantucket, located off the north coast of Cape Cod, is known for its whaling heritage.  Among the items on display are the only surviving relics of the whaleship Essex whose destruction in 1820  by an angry whale inspired key aspects of Herman Melville’s Moby Dick.  This  year marks the 200th anniversary of Melville’s birth.  The Winter Show runs until January 27.

    Aronson of Amsterdam feature this c1750 delftware polychrome puzzle jug

    A c1690 English William and Mary oyster veneered olivewood chest at Hyde Park Antiques of London

    AN IRISH TABLE AT THE WINTER SHOW IN NEW YORK

    Saturday, January 19th, 2019

    An Irish side table in New York show.

    The scallop shell motif reveals this table as an Irish piece.  Apter Fredericks describe it as English or Possibly Irish at their display at The Winter Show, now in full swing at the Park Avenue Armory in New York.  The George II carved mahogany side table dates to 1740 and is 33″ wide.  The marble was replaced and the jardiniere added by a previous owner.

    This is the 65th anniversary of the New York Winter Show, the leading art, antiques and design fair in America.  New exhibitors this year include Lowell Libson and Jonny Yarker (London), Charles Ede (London) and Erik Thomsen Gallery (New York).    Libson and Yarker present a pair of the largest surviving sketches of baroque ceilings made in Britain, Ede showcases exceptional ancient objects from Egypt, Greece and Rome and Thomsen is a specialist in Japanese art.  There are 68 exhibitors in total.

    Specially curated booths include H. Blairman and Sons Ltd., of London illuminating the English Arts and Crafts movement with works by Ernest Gimson, Peter Waals, Alfred Bucknell and Eric Sharpe as well as a roomful of 19 woven wool panels by William Morris in the campion pattern.

    The fair, which spans everything from antiquity to contemporary photography, continues to broaden its scope and introduce established and emerging exhibitors to new and expanding audiences.  It runs until January 27.