Gambling Collectors: Chippendale Furniture and its Revival in America During the 1890s

Thomas Michie, Curator of Decorative Arts, Los Angeles County Museum of Art

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de Young Museum

Koret Auditorium, de Young Museum, Golden Gate Park, San Francisco. Enter from Level B1 of the parking garage; pedestrians enter from the concourse side of Hagiwara Tea Garden Drive and down the steps across the street from the museum’s main entrance.

Upcoming Programs

Liebes on the job as Director of the Decorative Arts Pavilion
Useful and Beautiful: Modernism, Dorothy Liebes and the Decorative Arts at the 1939 Golden Gate International ExpositionElizabeth Schott, Scholar, Author, and Educator
Unnamed Figures Gallery Installation: Remembering, Misremembering, and Forgetting. Photo by Eva Cruz, Every Story.
Unnamed Figures: Black Presence in the Early American NorthEmelie Gevalt, American Folk Art Museum
Armband, Joseph Richardson Jr., Philadelphia, 1792-95
Silver at the 250th: Craft, Commerce, and the Making of a NationRichard Dietrich
Easy chair, Thomas Affleck (frame) and Nicholas Bernard and Martin Jugiez (carvers), Philadelphia, 1770, commissioned by John Cadwalader
America 250 and the Art of a New Nation: Philadelphia, Independence, and the WorldRichard Dietrich
TuesdaySep 15
The Golden Age of Illustration and the American DreamCurt DiCamillo, American Ancestors
Dish with Strainer, 
Jingdezhen, China, ca. 1823
Virginians and Their Dishes: Ceramic Highlights from the Greater Williamsburg Area and the People Who Owned ThemAngelika Keutner, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation
Sweetmeat Stand
, England, 1760-65
Colorless lead glass; gilded base metal (ormolu)
Sparkling Reflections: Stories from Colonial Williamsburg’s Glass CollectionAngelika Keutner, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation
Great House, showing Casino and Allee, north side.
Castle HillSusan Hill Dolan, Ipswitch, MA