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balcony. “Everybody came upstairs; it is more intimate
and relaxed,” said Jackie Smelkinson. “We sold porcelain,
including Derby figures, and glass [paste] and ceramic
jewelry to regular clients and to new collectors. We left
smiling.”
Brooklyn, New York, dealer Jill Fenichell offered
late 19th-century ceramics and glass from an illustrious
collection and said the CorningMuseumof Glass, Corning,
New York, had purchased a pair of Imperial Russian glass
vases from one collection, and that she sold a large Royal
Doulton floor vase from another collection. “This was my
best show yet,” she said. “There was such energy. I sold
everything from a seventy-five-dollar glass paperweight
to the really rare Russian glass vases made in Russia in
1911 when Nicholas and Alexandra had brought French
craftsmen to Russia to make Russian porcelain and glass.”
Polly Latham of Boston and John Suval of
Fredericksburg, Virginia, were the only specialist dealers
in Chinese export porcelain, and Suval also offered Native
American pottery. A.J. Warren of Wilton, Connecticut,
who sells more English ceramics than Chinese ceramics,
sold a large Chinese famille verte punch bowl and a
Chinese export tea service, plus English creamware. Paul
Vandekar of Maryknoll, New York, who sells mostly
English ceramics and Fornasetti limited editions, offered
some China trade porcelain as well. Lynda Willauer of
Nantucket, Massachusetts, sold a selection of blue-and-
white China trade porcelain along with Staffordshire
figures and Victorian majolica.
Leslie Grigsby, curator of ceramics and glass at the
Winterthur Museum, whose woven beadwork sculpture
was part of the loan exhibition, sold four pieces. She began
working with glass beads and threads about ten years ago
and soon began adopting off-loom weaving techniques
to undulating forms, some of them figural teapots. Each
piece takes from six to 18 months to make. Her husband,
Lindsay Grigsby, helps with the woodworking and
assembly.
Just four dealers specialized in antique glass. Ian
Simmonds of Carlisle, Pennsylvania, offered the finest
lacy glass from 1820 to 1850. “No one molded glass like
this since ancient Rome,” he said. The museum curators he
meets at this show keep him busy all year.
Every year since this show was launched 18 years ago,
Mark J. West of Surrey, England has offered a broad
range of 17th-, 18th-, 19th, and 20th-century glass from
the U.K. and the Continent, including Val Saint Lambert
Art Deco glass from Belgium. Martin Chasin of Fairfield,
Connecticut, brings English and Irish decanters and
tableware. Mt. Crawford, Virginia, auctioneer Jeffrey
Evans specializes in American glass and glass lighting.
Contemporary glass artists CarrieGustafson of Cambridge,
Massachusetts, and Michael Schunke and Josie Gluck of
West Grove, Pennsylvania, who call their collaborative
Vetro Vero, offered decorative and useful colorful glass
tablewares.
The New York Ceramics & Glass Fair, produced by
Meg Wendy of MCG Events LLC and Liz Lees of Caskey
Lees Inc., was busy from the time the preview opened at 5
p.m. on Wednesday, January 18, until it closed on Sunday,
January 22, at 4 p.m. Small and compact, it has a lot to see.
The pictures show just a fraction of what was there.
For more information, call (929) 265-2850 or visit the
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Martyn Edgell of March, Cambridgeshire,
England asked $3800 for this creamware
pitcher hand painted with a girl with birds and
a dog in the background
There were all sorts of finds at the fair. Pictured are four from a set
of six extremely rare lacy pressed drawer pulls, New England or
Philadelphia, 1829-40. Ian Simmonds of Carlisle, Pennsylvania, asked
$4250 for the six.
This important example of White House glassware, a 5" diameter
wine rinse from the table service of President Franklin Pierce, the
engraving by Haughwout and Dailey of Manhattan on a blank made
by the Brooklyn Flint Glass Company, Brooklyn, New York, 1853, was
$27,500 from Ian Simmonds. “I am claiming for New York what was
made here,” said Simmonds about his stand. Martin Chasin Fine Arts LLC, Fairfield,
Connecticut, asked $600 for this pair of circa
1790 blue decanters made in Bristol, England.
Michael Wainwright of Great Barrington, Massachusetts, offered
flag platters priced from $475 to $2000, depending on size.
Hideaki Miyamura of Kensington,
New Hampshire, asked $25,000 for
this group of 18 vessels.
This crater-glazed
vessel with a lychee
nut on the lid by
Cliff Lee of Stevens,
Pennsylvania, was
priced at $8000.