Majolica Auction - October 31, 2009

MAJOLICA AUCTIONS will be holding their semi-annual auction on Saturday, October 31, 2009 at the Alderfer Auction Center in Hatfield, Pennsylvania. The auction will start at 9:00AM with preview at 7:30. Preview will also be available on Friday, October 30 from 10:00am TO 5:00pm. Catalogs will be mailed early next week. Be sure to contact Michael if you wish to be on the "Preferred Mailing List" in order to obtain your catalog. The complete catalog will also be available on Michael's website at http://www.majolicaauctions.com/. Live internet bidding will also be available at http://www.artfact.com/

This auction includes many rare and unusual majolica pieces including the Minton fox and mushroom game tureen. Visit our website for photos.

Telephone bidding will be accepted at this auction on any lot with a minimum opening bid of $5,000.

Sparrows, Fine French Antiques: After 36 Years, we are retiring - STORE SALE

Sparrows majolica collection http://www.sparrows.com/

Sparrows offers the Baltimore-Washington corridor an incomparable selection of French antiques, including 18th through early 20th century furniture, lighting, ironwork, sculpture, paintings, majolica, faience and pottery, country to formal, in a full range of styles and periods up to and including Art Nouveau, Art Deco and Art Moderne.

HUGE RETIREMENT/STORE CLOSING SALE!

After 36 years in business, we are retiring, and have decided to close our brick-and-mortar store. Our entire showroom inventory is now being liquidated, with every single item on sale. Our website does not reflect sale prices - call or email for the latest pricing.

Beginning January, 2010, we will begin to accept items for restoration, and expect to resume offering an exceptional selection of French antiques through our website. We thank you for your support and appreciation over these may years.

We are closing our brick & mortar location. Everything in our current inventory is on sale. We can be reached by e-mail (sparrows@sparrows.com) or telephone (toll free 1-888-800-1235) for more details. We have so enjoyed collecting majolica and along the way meeting so many wonderful collectors.

Let us know if you would like any more information about anything.

Regards, Lori

Lori Chaikin
Showroom Manager
Sparrows Antiques
Kensington, MD 20895
301-530-0175
lori@sparrows.com

At Auction - Derrill Osborn's Lifetime Bovine Collection

FD Luxe, a Dallas Morning News monthly fashion magazine, announced in its Bid Time column, that Derrill Osborn's, Lifetime Bovine Collection will be up for action October 14th, at Dallas Auction Gallery. The collection consists of over 500 items (oils, Staffordshire, Black Forest carvings, and Majolica). Most of the items celebrate a bovine theme. Read the entire article at: http://shopping.dallasnews.com/SS/Page.aspx?sstarg=&facing=false&secid=68818&pagenum=10

Learn more about Derrill Osborn at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derrill_Osborn

Derrill in Paris: https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCNWaWph2iwVLBxl53KRVhAI4oTvO9OBVbv5sQT_9Xx_yJiXx8ay_6GYt3pSzLvoPmwZ44RKWQGiF-pFmFTEcwzYer79i6sv96al1F-ydGwjZSwpkaeEHQBF47KsPic_Ix933cMYZhhIM/s1600-h/AmericanInParisweb.jpg

Decorator Article in Southern Accents - Features Majolica

The Sept/Oct 2009 issue of Southern Accents has an article titled Capturing Cashiers, by Grace Collins Barr. It guides us through a spectacular North Carolina mountain retreat of Dorothy and Walter Fletcher. Several of the rooms feature majolica as a predominate decorative art. The article starts on page 102 and I couldn't find the same photos at the Southern Accents web. The issue is currently at home delivery and you can find majolica throughout the dinning and kitchen areas.

House Beautiful, September 2009

House Beautiful, September 2009, in their "Kitchen of the Month" column feature a Woodside, California kitchen by Suzanne Tucker. Lots of majolica and palissy ware help bring Provencal landscape colors into this beautiful kitchen. It runs from page 128 to 132.

"It is easy to set and interesting table when there's so much great majolica to work with."

Home delivery is out, should to be on newsstands.

http://www.housebeautiful.com/kitchens/dream/french-country-kitchen

Shipwreck of the 'Loch Ard' in 1878, and its Minton Peacock

We have always heard the story if this Majolica Minton Peacock - but here is more of the its tail - http://www.flickr.com/photos/garden-chris/3750699423/

Dallas Auction Gallery Palissy - September 2

Dallas Auction Gallery has scheduled a September 2, 2009 - 6 P.M. auction including a superb 40 pc. collection of antique French and Portuguese Palissy ware.

http://www.dallasauctiongallery.com/next_auction.html

40 lots of good English majolica

Garth's Auctions, Inc. received a consignment of about 40 lots of good English majolica from a member of the Majolica International Society that we’ll be selling in their July 25 auction. We have included a link below to the catalog “landing” page where folks can view the entire catalog in the format of their choice.

http://www.garths.com/WebPhotos/7_25_09_Catalog/07_25_09_catalog.asp

Please don’t hesitate to contact me if you have any questions about this auction.
Cheers, Andy Richmond

Auctioneer/Appraiser
Garth's Auctions, Inc.
Post Office Box 369, Delaware, Ohio 43015
Telephone: 740.362.4771, Mobile: 740.972.5094
Email: andy@garths.com
Web: www.garths.com

Announcing Majolica Heaven 2010, Dallas, Texas

The Majolica International Society's annual meeting for 2010 is taking shape. Save the dates of April 29, through May 2, 2010. The annual convention, majolica exhibit and sale will be hosted in Dallas Texas. Our Hotel will be the fabulous Adolphus Hotel in downtown Dallas

If you're not a member of the society and want to attend the 2010 convention - Join at: Membership Invitation .

Online: Antique Trader Majolica Article

Majolica was once high-tech trend - June 17, 2009 by Mark F. Moran

In 1851, California had been the nation’s 31st state for only four months, and Millard Fillmore was U.S. president; Elisha Otis was perfecting his brake equipped elevator, and Robert Bunsen was tinkering with the burner that would one day bear his name; Jenny Lind, the “Swedish Nightingale,” toured America in a spectacle organized by P.T. Barnum; Nathaniel Hawthorne’s “The Scarlet Letter” was being hailed by critics. Read the rest of this artilce at: Antique Trader Articles

Majolica Heaven 2009

The Society's May 2009 "MAJOLICA HEAVEN" - was a stunning exhibition and sale of thousands of pieces of English, American, French and other Continental Victorian Majolica from the world's foremost dealers.



The Society wishes to thank the dealers that worked so hard to make it the huge success that it was.

MAJOLICA HEAVEN 2009 - EXHIBITORS:
Corinne Agesilas - Paris, France
Jesse Davis - London, England
Lisa Gaffney - Terra Mare Antiques, New York, NY
Linda Ketterling - Toledo, Ohio
Phillipe Meunier & Jean Defrocourt - Paris, France
David Tulk, Madelena Antiques - North Frambridge, England
Charles Washburne - Solebury, PA

bon appétit magazine - June 2009

COOKING LIFE/Salmon Gets Fraîche - A short, delicious recipe with a long, nostalgic history.

By Molly Wizenberg,
Photography by Elinor Carucci

My Father was a doctor by day , but in his off hours he was what some might call a little bit obsessed with fly fishing. When I was growing up, our house had two freezers: a modest one in the kitchen, stocked with ice cream and a few packs of frozen peas, and an imposing, jumbo-size model that stood in the garage. Humming like a swarm of bees. It held a few forgotten TV dinners, but for the most part, it was dedicated to one item only: salmon, entire sides of it, brought back from my father's annual fishing trip. Every summer, he and a couple of friends would pack up their rods and their waders, top off their flasks, and fly to Alaska in search of wild salmon. When he returned a week or so later, a box of loot came with him: the fish he had caught-cleaned and gutted and ready for the freezer -enough to feed our family of three until the following summer.

The centerpiece of my father's weekend wardrobe was a khaki fly-fisherman's vest, the kind with a million tiny pocket, and his bookshelves were thick with short stories about rivers and streams.

The rest of the story and Molly's recipe can be found in - bon appétit magazine - June 2009

Molly Wizenberg is the daughter of Society member Toni Wizenberg. Many of the Society members can identify with the nostalgic image that Molly creates of her father, Moe. He is now deceased. Moe was a long-time executive of the Majolica International Society.

Convention 2009 Begins - 4-30-2009

Well the 2009 Majolica International Society convention has begun.

New York weather has been very agreeable. It allowed me a beautiful run in Central Park where I did get a chance to see the Pavilion Tunnel and view the 19th Century Minton tile ceilings. Outstanding!

The members arriving early were treated to a bus ride to Long Island collector homes. It was truly a once in a lifetime opportunity. Friday has the same trip planned for those that arrived today.

MajoliCake and Coffee is planned for this evening and will have great member presentations about the whys and hows of their collecting habits.

Wish you were here.

Victorian Homes - June 2009 - Mad About Majolica

Member Wanda Matthes and Trilogy Antiques conrtibuted to the new article, Mad About Majolica - Victorians cherished this richly colored earthenware, in the June 2009 issue of "Victorian Homes" magazine. The article is in the collections department and written by Donna Pules - Murphy starting on page 18. The issue just came out for home delivery and should be available at newsstands.

MIS Library Updates

The Society has added more articles to the MIS Member Area use your MIS member USERNAME and PASSWORD to access the area and read these new articles at: Article Library

If you're not a member - Join at: Membership Invitation