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Making a Meal of it—Preparing for Winterthur’s Upcoming Dining Exhibition
Dining by Design: Nature Displayed on the Dinner Table, opening April 1, 2018, takes a fresh look at the history of dining and dinnerware from the 1600s through modern times and celebrates how hosts...
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A Whimsical Walk through Dining by Design: Nature Displayed on the Dinner Table
Porcelain water buffalo or ox-head tureen and stand, China, 1760–80. Campbell Collection of Soup Tureens at Winterthur 1996.4.234 a-c We need more whimsy in this world. For me, ever the fan of anything...
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Dining by Design Meets Terrific Tuesdays! Who Says Kids Don’t Like Old Stuff,...
What is the most common lament that we curators hear from collectors and those lucky individuals who have inherited family heirlooms? Young people today have absolutely no interest in objects from the...
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A Winterthur Interview: Thomas Chippendale at 300
Thomas Chippendale at 300: Treasures from the Collection exhibit, July 20, 2018- May 27, 2019 In celebration of the 300th anniversary of Thomas Chippendale’s birth, Winterthur Museum has organized an...
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From Beautiful to Practical: My Internship in Historic Clock Repair
Image of the Pennsylvania Governor’s Office at the State Capitol in Harrisburg. The clock seen above the fireplace extends from the carved and arched hardwood top to just above the stone mantel,...
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Road Trip!
This summer I embarked on an expedition to the Midwest for thesis research on nineteenth- and turn-of-the-century Islamic architecture in American domestic and religious spaces. I refer to this journey...
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Looks Good Enough to Eat! Dishes Imitate Foods in Dining by Design Exhibition
Earthenware goose tureen, possibly John Turner factory, Staffordshire, England, about 1800. Campbell Collection of Soup Tureens at Winterthur, gift of Mr. W. B. Murphy 1996.4.32a,b As well as studying...
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Silhouette Sleuthing: The Mystery of the Weston Profile Artist
Group silhouette, Weston Profiles, New York, ca. 1840-50. Bequest of Mrs. Helen Shumway Mayer 2003.13.35. What started as simple research into a silhouette in the Winterthur collection has progressed...
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Silhouette Sleuthing: Solving the Mystery of the Weston Profile Artist (Part 2)
Group silhouette, Weston Profiles, New York, ca. 1840-50. Bequest of Mrs. Helen Shumway Mayer 2003.13.35. In the first Silhouette Sleuthing blog post, I detailed how I discovered that one of the...
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Hiding in Plain Sight
As a registration assistant at Winterthur, I’ve walked down the sixth floor hall countless times and never really thought twice about the Williams Room. Who would believe that I would discover a...
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