30 17th December 2011 international events


THE 58TH WINTER SHOW The grande dame of the New York antiques scene is the Winter Antiques Show, now in its 58th year and embedded in both the US trade and social calendars, with buyers flying in from across the country for the glamorous event. The 2012 event runs from January 20


to 29 at the Park Avenue Armory, 67th Street and Park Avenue, with the usual exclusive opening night party on January 18 and a well-attended Young Collectors’ Night on January 26. This is a top-end fair, featuring a wide


range of stock from antiquity to the 20th century. That said, it is not surprisingly


dominated by American period furniture and folk art which are the specialisms of around a third of the exhibitors, while the rest show British, European and Asian


CERAMICS FAIR For the second year, the New York Ceramics Fair will be held in the Grand Ballroom of the Bohemian National Hall, the home of the Czech Consulate, on East 73rd Street from January 17 to 22, to coincide with New York’s Winter Antiques Week. The fair, organised by Caskey Lees,


is now in its 13th year and, as usual, this true enthusiast’s fair will have an accompanying lecture series running throughout, covering subjects from archaeology to dating ceramics using forensic science. This year there are 36 exhibitors,


offering all things ‘fired’, be that porcelain, pottery, glass, cloisonné or enamels, from all periods. In 2011 there were just 30 exhibitors


compared to the 40 in 2010, a decline that the organisers attributed to a combination of concerns about the economy and uncertainty about the new venue. This year some US dealers have


returned to what has always been a popular event with the UK ceramics trade. Around a quarter of the exhibitors this year are British, including Garry


Above left: Printemps, ceramic painted vase by Jean Cocteau (1889-1963),1958, in excess of £14,000 from Sylvia Powell at the New York Ceramics Fair. Above right: underglaze blue painted earthenware jug, bearing the legend Strong Ale Give me some Drink 1793, £3300 from John Howard.


Atkins, Rod Jellicoe, Christopher Sheppard Glass, Mark J. West and Martyn Edgell. A British regular here is John Howard


from Woodstock, whose offerings of English pottery will this year include a 12½in (32cm) underglaze blue painted earthenware jug, dated 1793 and inscribed with the legend Strong Ale Give


me some Drink 1793. Sylvia Powell is also a familiar


exhibitor here, with 20th century art pottery, and this year she will take Printemps, a 14in (36cm) vase by Jean Cocteau (1889-1963), made in Villefranche, France in 1958 and numbered 7/15. Daily admission $20. www.caskeylees.com


Above left: primitive Northern European hand-form weathervane finial, c.1830, $4500 from Robert Young at the Winter Antiques Show. Above centre: Ferdinand of Orleans, Duke of Chartres, Prince Royal of France, at the age of five, a portrait miniature by Augustin, Jean-Baptiste-Jacques (1759-1832), signed and dated 1815, in the region of $50,000 (£30,000) from Elle Shushan of Philadelphia. Above right: Estelle by Sir James Jebusa Shannon (1862-1923), 14½ x 17in (37 x 43 cm), oil on canvas, 1886, priced at $250,000 (£165,000) from The Fine Art Society.


fine and decorative arts. Entry for exhibitors is strict and it is


notoriously hard to become one of the 75 exhibitors. However, this year there will be six


newcomers, all of them American, including the fair’s first tribal art dealer, Pace Primitive of New York who deal in tribal art, prints and photographs. The others are Joe Kindig Antiques,


Pennsylvania (18th century American furniture, decorative arts and rifles); Joan R. Brownstein & Peter H. Eaton, Massachusetts (American period furniture and folk art); Jonathan Boos of New York and Michigan (American


art from 1850-1950); Philadelphia’s Moderne Gallery (20th design); and Peter Fetterman Gallery, California (20th century photography). Meanwhile, there are also a few UK


exhibitors for whom the Winter Show has become an annual pilgrimage, among them Roger Keverne, Rupert Wace, Daniel Katz and Peter Finer. The London folk art specialist Robert


Young has a strong US following, and has exhibited at the Winter Show for the past decade. This year he will take an unusual


collection of 18th and 19th century French milliners’ head lasts and, shown


here, a primitive Northern European hand-form weathervane finial, made c.1830 from metal and wood. The 18½in (47cm) high finial will be


priced at $4500. Fellow London dealers The Fine


Art Society are also Winter Show veterans and this year they will take the oil on canvas by the Anglo-American society portrait painter, Sir James Jebusa Shannon (1862-1923). Titled Estelle and painted in 1886, the


14½ x 17in (37 x 43 cm) work is priced at $250,000 (£165,000). Daily admission $20. www.WinterAntiquesShow.com


CALENDAR OF NEW YORK FAIRS


Jan 7-8 The New Years Antiques Show Birchwood Manor, 111 N. Jefferson Road, Whippany, NJ. www.jmkshows.com


Jan 18-22 New York Ceramics Fair Bohemian National Hall, 321 East 73rd St www.caskeylees.com


Jan 19-22 The Metro Show Metropolitan Pavilion, 125 West 18th St www.metroshownyc.com


Jan 20-29


Winter Antiques Show Park Avenue Armory


www.WinterAntiquesShow.com


Jan 20-22 Antiques at the Armory 69th Regiment Armory, Lexington Avenue www.stellashows.com


Jan 21-22 Americana & Antiques at the Piers Pier 92, 12th Avenue at 55th St, New York www.stellashows.com


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