Product Description: The third offering in the Winterthur Decorative Arts Series (which also includes Evaluating Your Collection and The Winterthur Guide to Caring for Your Collection), The Winterthur Guide to Recognizing Styles serves as an invaluable guide to identifying styles in the decorative arts...read more

Product Description: Myer Myers, a Jewish silversmith in colonial America, created outstanding works for leading members of the New York elite, and the objects made in his workshop have long been regarded as among the most important American statements of the Rococo style...read more

Product Description: An appealing catalog of the world's most important collection of soup tureens.

Product Description: This book presents a look at one man's collecting habits, as well as his development of the museum's period room displays, through a description of the historic woodwork installed in three popular rooms at Winterthur. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: An illustrated history of the Winterthur estate, tracing the evolution of the farm, dairy, garden, and house, with a brief history of the DuPont family. Archival photographs are complemented by contemporary color images (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Essays expanding the definition of gender and its interface with American material culture. In showing some of the ways gender is made visible, they explore avenues such as the gender of things that surround us; subtle and invisible processes of inclusion and exclusion from valuation; fusing form and content, practice and product; and how the material culture of gender produces gendered beings...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Copper and its alloys were an integral part of Americans' lives from the time of earliest settlement. Using the extensive collection at Winterthur as examples, Fennimore explores the importance of these metal for early Americans. A broad cross section of objects is included and linked to extensive manuscript and early published sources on both sides of the Atlantic. The book is organized into three parts: essays, color plates, and catalogue entries. The first three chapters cover mining and manufacturing techniques, the vast marketing network through which raw materials, and finished goods moved, and the factors that governed the marking of metal by their makers. These essays, followed by color plates, provide a background and introduce the entries that illustrate and discuss more than 300 individual objects.

Product Description: The Winterthur Garden is the story of Henry Francis du Pont's lifelong love affair with his home, as well as a biography of one of America's great public gardens. Author Denise Magnani, curator of landscape at Winterthur, offers an engagingly intimate portrait of the man and his environment, documenting the evolution of a single garden and detailing its relationship to the interior of the house, from which it can be viewed...read more

Product Description: Book by Fowble, E. McSherry

Product Description: First edition. 1211 entries broken down into many different subject areas. Index to all sections. Signed by a number of Andrews family members. Covers soiled. xxvii, 357 pages. cloth.. 8vo..

Product Description: Book by Quimby, Ian M. G.