A Great Resource

For those with an interest in the Decorative Arts, the Metropolitan Museum of Art offers an extensive collections database that serves as a superb resource. If you are trying to identify a style of furniture or  hoping to acquire more information about one of your antiques, The Met's site can also be of use.  I simply love to look at the site for inspiration and am learning so much about collectibles from perusing its various pages. Here are some of my favorite pieces as of late:

Object Name: Exterior Door from Dr. Stephen Thorn House, New Hackensack, New York

Date:1772

Geography: Northeast, New Hackensack, New York, America

Culture: American

Medium: Sweet gum, oak

Credit Line: Gift of Mrs. Joseph Tuckerman Tower, 1934

Accession Number: 34.79a, b

Object Name: Dressing table

Date:1710–30

Geography: Northeast, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, America

Culture: American

Medium: Black walnut, yellow pine, white cedar, sweet gum

Credit Line: Bequest of Augusta W. Demuth, 1943

Accession Number: 43.60

Object Name: Girandole

Date:1817

Geography: Northeast, New York City, New York, America; Northeast, Albany, New York, America

Culture: American

Medium: Gilded gesso, mirror glass with white pine

Credit Line: Gift of Mrs. Frederick Moseley, Jr., 1974

Accession Number:1974.363.1

Probably Hobbs, Brockunier and Company (1863–1891)

Object Name: Tumbler

Date: after 1886

Geography: South, Wheeling, West Virginia, America

Culture: American

Medium: Pressed colorless and opaque white glass

Credit Line: Gift of Mrs. Emily Winthrop Miles, 1946

Accession Number: 46.140.410

Attributed to John Finlay (active ca. 1799–1833)
Attributed to Hugh Finlay (active ca. 1800–37)
Object Name: Side Chair
Date:1815–20
Geography: South, Baltimore, Maryland, United States
Culture: American
Medium: Maple, painted and gilded, cane
Credit Line: Purchase, Mrs. Paul Moore Gift, 1965
Accession Number: 65.167.6