Pot
Collections:
Classification:
Date:
1809-1852
Medium:
Stoneware, cobalt oxide
Dimensions:
Overall: 14 1/2 x 9 1/2 in. ( 36.8 x 24.1 cm )
Description:
Salt-glazed stoneware two-handled jar with impressed maker's mark and decorated with cobalt blue dragonfly.
Credit Line:
Purchased from Elie Nadelman
Object Number:
1937.847
Marks:
impressed: on front: "I. SEYMOUR & CO. / TROY"
Gallery Label:
Israel Seymour, an astute businessman, was Troy's best-known stoneware manufacturer. Stoneware vessels impressed with Seymour's mark and decorated with incised images are believed to be the work of Seymour's associate William Lundy, an Irish-born potter.
Provenance:
The Folk Art Collection of Elie Nadelman
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1852
eMuseum Object ID:
29484
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Jug
Collections:
Classification:
Date:
1806-1809
Medium:
Stoneware
Dimensions:
Overall: 6 3/4 x 4 1/2 x 4 1/2 in. ( 17.1 x 11.4 x 11.4 cm )
Description:
Salt-glazed stoneware jug decorated with hand-incised and cobalt images of fish, flags, flowers, and crescents, and hand-inscribed maker's mark.
Credit Line:
Purchased from Elie Nadelman
Object Number:
1937.824
Marks:
inscribed: by hand on jug: "Made by Bill Howard / N * YORK"
Gallery Label:
William Howard probably made this patriotic jug in the pottery of either Clarkson Crolius, Sr. or John Remmey III. He appears in the New York City directories between 1806 and 1809 living on Cross (now Park) Street.
Provenance:
The Folk Art Collection of Elie Nadelman
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1809
eMuseum Object ID:
29476
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Double-handled jug
Collections:
Classification:
Date:
ca. 1818
Medium:
Stoneware, paint
Dimensions:
Overall: 12 1/2 x 8 in. ( 31.8 x 20.3 cm )
Description:
Salt-glazed double-handled jug with incised name "MOSES THOMPSON" and black post-firing painted location and date "Columbia / Herkimer / Co. NY."; "1818"
Credit Line:
Purchased from Elie Nadelman
Object Number:
1937.837
Marks:
incised: on front: "MOSES THOMPSON"
painted: on front: "Columbia / Herkimer / Co. NY."; "1818"
Gallery Label:
Farmer Moses Thompson (1775-1841) lived in Herkimer County between 1810 and 1830. The double handles allowed two people to carry the jug, which would be extremely heavy when filled with liquid.
Provenance:
The Folk Art Collection of Elie Nadelman
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1818
eMuseum Object ID:
29475
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Bottle
Collections:
Classification:
Date:
1820-1880
Medium:
Glass
Dimensions:
Overall: 10 x 2 3/4 in. ( 25.4 x 7 cm )
Description:
Cobalt blue glass bottle; blown in a dip mold with a tall cylindrical neck with a rounded lip, rounded shoulders, and a tall straight-sided body with a flat base and pontil mark.
Credit Line:
Purchased from Elie Nadelman
Object Number:
1937.1051
Gallery Label:
This object was once part of the folk art collection of Elie Nadelman (1882-1946), the avant-garde sculptor. From 1924 to 1934, Nadelman's collection was displayed in his Museum of Folk Arts, located in the Riverdale section of the Bronx. The Historical Society purchased Nadelman's entire collection in 1937.
Provenance:
The Folk Art Collection of Elie Nadelman
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1880
eMuseum Object ID:
29467
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Inkwell
Collections:
Classification:
Date:
1820-1840
Medium:
Glass
Dimensions:
Overall: 1 1/4 x 2 3/8 x 2 1/4 in. ( 3.2 x 6 x 5.7 cm )
Description:
Amber olive bottle glass inkwell; square, with canted edges; patterned in rib mold and swirled; tooled opening at top.
Credit Line:
Purchased from Elie Nadelman
Object Number:
1937.741
Gallery Label:
This object was once part of the folk art collection of Elie Nadelman (1882-1946), the avant-garde sculptor. From 1924 to 1934, Nadelman's collection was displayed in his Museum of Folk Arts, located in the Riverdale section of the Bronx. The Historical Society purchased Nadelman's entire collection in 1937.
Provenance:
The Folk Art Collection of Elie Nadelman
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1840
eMuseum Object ID:
29465
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Needlework
Collections:
Classification:
Date:
1838
Medium:
Silk, glass
Dimensions:
Overall: 18 x 14 1/2 x 1/8 in. ( 45.7 x 36.8 x 0.3 cm )
Description:
Vertical rectangular needlework (beaded) picture on silk taffeta ground depicting a floral arrangement of a variety of multi-colored flowers in an urn-shaped vase sitting on a table mat.
Credit Line:
Purchased from Elie Nadelman, 1937
Object Number:
INV.1144
Marks:
beaded: bottom, above table mat: "Esther Bordarier"
handwritten: across bottom: "Fait pour le 1er Janvier 1838 chez Madame Dombald à la Cension"
Gallery Label:
This object was once part of the folk art collection of Elie Nadelman (1882-1946), the avant-garde sculptor. From 1924 to 1934, Nadelman's collection was displayed in his Museum of Folk Arts, located in the Riverdale section of the Bronx. The Historical Society purchased Nadelman's entire collection in 1937.
Provenance:
The Folk Art Collection of Elie Nadelman
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1838
eMuseum Object ID:
29416
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Printed cotton drape w/curtain ring
Collections:
Classification:
Date:
1783
Medium:
Cotton, linen
Dimensions:
Overall: 88 x 30 x 1 in. ( 223.5 x 76.2 x 2.5 cm )
Description:
Cotton copperplate-printed curtain with a personification of America presenting medallions with images of George Washington and his staff to a personification of Liberty on an altar holding a staff topped by a liberty cap, with George Washington being crowned with laurel wreath by a winged-Victory and cupids in clouds above; printed in red on a white ground; linen lining.
Credit Line:
Purchased from Elie Nadelman
Object Number:
1939.6
Marks:
printed: all over: "WASHINGTON AND/ INDEPENDENCE/ AMERICA PRESENTING AT THE/ ALTER OF LIBERTY MEDALLIONS/ OF HER ILLUSTRIOUS SONS/ GEN GATES/ GEN REED/ GEN WASHINGTON/ B. FRANKLIN/ ..."
Gallery Label:
The design of this textile is based upon the following prints: "General Washington" engraved by Valentine Green from the original painting by Trumbull, published in 1781, London; medallion portraits from the drawings of Pierre Eugune du Simitiere and engraved by Benoit Louis Prevost, Burnett Reading, and B.B.E., and published by William Richardson, London 1783 and R. Wilkenson, London 1783; medallion portrait of Franklin from the engraving Heath. The portrait of Adams can not be traced.
Provenance:
The Folk Art Collection of Elie Nadelman
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1783
eMuseum Object ID:
29398
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Bell
Collections:
Classification:
Date:
1500-1700
Medium:
Bronze
Dimensions:
Overall: 13 x 13 in. ( 33 x 33 cm )
Description:
Bronze bell-shaped clapper bell with two slanting attachments at top (for suspending bell); molded decoration of the Cruxificion at front, showing Christ on the cross with the thieves on smaller crosses at each side; two smaller cruxificion scenes on opposing sides of bell; bronze clapper suspended from top of inside by large loop.
Credit Line:
Purchased from Elie Nadelman, 1937
Object Number:
Z.1227
Marks:
pencil inscription: on paper tag attached to bell: "Gallery/XII"
Gallery Label:
This object was once part of the folk art collection of Elie Nadelman (1882-1946), the avant-garde sculptor. From 1924 to 1934, Nadelman's collection was displayed in his Museum of Folk Arts, located in the Riverdale section of the Bronx. The Historical Society purchased Nadelman's entire collection in 1937.
Provenance:
The Folk Art Collection of Elie Nadelman
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1700
eMuseum Object ID:
29352
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Coffeepot
Collections:
Classification:
Date:
1860-1900
Medium:
Copper, tin
Dimensions:
Overall: 9 x 7 1/2 x 6 in. ( 22.9 x 19 x 15.2 cm )
Description:
Baluster-shaped copper coffeepot with loop handle, domed lid with finial, curved, contiguous spout, and splayed foot.
Credit Line:
Purchased from Elie Nadelman
Object Number:
1937.1608
Gallery Label:
This object was once part of the folk art collection of Elie Nadelman (1882-1946), the avant-garde sculptor. From 1924 to 1934, Nadelman's collection was displayed in his Museum of Folk Arts, located in the Riverdale section of the Bronx. The Historical Society purchased Nadelman's entire collection in 1937.
Provenance:
The Folk Art Collection of Elie Nadelman
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1900
eMuseum Object ID:
29315
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Grinder
Collections:
Classification:
Date:
1800-1850
Medium:
Wood, iron
Dimensions:
Overall: 12 1/4 x 4 1/4 in. ( 31.1 x 10.8 cm )
Description:
Turned wood grinder with iron perforated cover screwed in on one end and separate wood plunger.
Credit Line:
Purchased from Elie Nadelman
Object Number:
1937.1600ab
Gallery Label:
This object was once part of the folk art collection of Elie Nadelman (1882-1946), the avant-garde sculptor. From 1924 to 1934, Nadelman's collection was displayed in his Museum of Folk Arts, located in the Riverdale section of the Bronx. The Historical Society purchased Nadelman's entire collection in 1937.
Provenance:
The Folk Art Collection of Elie Nadelman
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1850
eMuseum Object ID:
29312
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
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