Featuring the finest offerings from more than sixty distinguished dealers, the Delaware Antiques Show highlights the best of American antiques and decorative arts. Join us for a full schedule of exciting show features sure to captivate the sophisticated and new collector alike.
Opening Night Party ticket valid for admission to all days of the show and to Winterthur during the show dates. All lectures are included with show admission. Ticket valid for admission to all days of the show and to Winterthur during the show dates.
Relive the Delaware Antiques Show and stay tuned for an exciting list of show features in After nearly forty years as an antique garden ornament dealer, Barbara Israel has gathered plenty of stories. This lecture delves into the many gardens, experiences, and intriguing personalities she has encountered over the years, ranging from the sublime to the nefarious and everything in between.
Nearly forty years and hundreds of exquisite objects later, she is recognized as an authority on the subject, and her book Antique Garden Ornament: Two Centuries of American Taste is the definitive work in the field. Barbara has served as a consultant to The Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Smithsonian Institution for their collections of nineteenth-century cast iron.
Book signing to follow lecture. Headshot by Bryan Goldberg Photography. Watch lecture. Swindle grapples with anti-Chinese sentiment in imagery preserved on a pair of eighteenth-century hand-screens. The survival of these objects, made between and for fashionable circles in London and Paris, presents an opportunity to reflect on the dissemination of racial stereotypes of Chinese people through decorative art forms made by and for Euro-Atlantic audiences in the eighteenth century.
