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Potteries Of Trenton Society To Host Panel Of Art Museum Curators Annual POTS Meeting And Lectures To Be Held April 9 Have you ever wondered what museum curators think about Trenton ceramics? What are they acquiring these days? And why? The Potteries of Trenton Society (POTS) in collaboration with the Trenton Historical Society will bring together a panel of three art museum curators for the POTS 2022 annual meeting on Saturday, April 9. David Barquist, Ulysses Dietz and Ron Fuchs will talk about the collections they manage and why they are adding Trenton ceramics to the holdings of the museums where they work. Ellen Denker, POTS program chair, will moderate the panel. David Barquist is the H. Richard David Barquist Dietrich Jr., curator of American decorative arts at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. He holds degrees from Harvard College; the University of Delaware, where he was a fellow in the Winterthur Program in Early American Culture; and Yale University. From 1981 to 2004 he served as assis- The basket made by Ceramic Art Company is belleek tant, associate, porcelain from the 1890s and given by Walter Scott and acting cura- Lenox to the Newark Museum in 1911. tor of American Decorative Arts at the Yale University Art Gallery. For POTS, Barquist will focus on collecting at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Founded in 1876 on the model of London’s South Kensington Museum, the museum has collected American ceramics from its inception, including numerous Trentonmade ceramics dating from the 1860s to the 1980s and ranging from flint enamel earthenware to porcelain services made for the White House. Ulysses Dietz is chief curator emeritus, Newark Museum of Art. He was curator of decorative arts at the museum from 1980 until 2017, as well as chief curator for the last five of those years. A graduate of Yale and Winterthur, Ulysses was indoctrinated into Trenton ceram- This vase was made by Ott and ics from the day he arrived at the Brewer, Trenton, N.J., 1882-90, Newark Museum. Dietz’s discussion porcelain with gold and silver will begin with the museum’s first decoration, and was a gift of the showing of Trenton ceramics in Friends of the Philadelphia 1910, a year after it was founded, Museum of Art and purchased with the exhibition, “Modern with the Baugh-Barber Fund, Continued on page 10 1994.
A Pinnacle Of Redware Flowerpots Comes To Auction Bixler Redware Among The Rarest Of Pennsylvania German Ceramics
This jug commemorating the death of Col. Elmer Ellsworth was made by Millington, Astbury, and Poulson, Trenton, N.J., 1861, and was a partial gift of Jay and Emma Lewis and partial purchase with funds provided by W. Groke Mickey.
Golden Nugget Antique Flea Market Announces Model Train Show Dates The Golden Nugget Antique Market, rated one of the top 10 flea markets on the East Coast, recently announced it will be continuing its tradition of hosting Antique Model Train Shows. The first two shows will be Saturdays, March 19 and April 9. The Golden Nugget is well known for expert dealers, specializing in antique furniture, art, and many collectibles such as coins, stamps, jewelry, vinyl records, depression glass, and, of course, model trains. “Collectors have been urging us to have regular shows, so we are planning on several train shows
per year at the Golden Nugget. We are excited to host our new model train dealers for our first show in 2022,” stated manager Mitch Freedman. Located in Lambertville, N.J., the 50-year-old establishment is open year-round. Since 1967, the Golden Nugget has been a gold mine of an indoor/outdoor market specializing in antiques, collectibles, art, and more. The market is located at 1850 River Road and is open on Wednesdays, Saturdays, and Sundays from 6 a.m. to 4 p.m. To learn more, visit www.gnflea.com.
A phenomenal redware presentation flowerpot with applied decoration of a cat chasing a bird, impressed “READY FOR A CATCH,” by Absalom Bixler, Earl Township, Lancaster County, Pa., ca. 1850, is among the stars of the next Crocker Farm auction, which will run from Friday, March 25, to Friday, April 8. The flowerpot typifies the exuberance of the PennsylvaniaGerman style in its hand-modeled sculpture of a cat ready to pounce on a bird perched on a branch. This work, along with a group of related pieces, was made by Bixler for his wife, Sarah, to commemorate their courtship. Its remarkable state of preservation indicates it was sparingly used, and its size sets it apart as one of Bixler’s finest surviving works. It measures 10.25-by-10.25 inches. The glaze treatment includes highly unusual cobalt slip applied to the bird, branch, and black cat. The bird and branch are composed of white clay, which, when fired under lead, produced a yellowish glazed surface, thereby Continued on page 5
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