Tibetan Buddhist Thangkas
(Editor’s note: DeeDee Wood is the store manager at Tharpe Antiques, in Easton, part of the Talbot Historical Society.) A Tibetan thangka is a Tibetan Buddhist painting, usually painted upon silk or cotton. It depicts a Buddhist deity, mandala or a scene, and is used...
Clara Driscoll and the ‘Tiffany girls’
(Editor’s note: DeeDee Wood is the store manager at Tharpe Antiques, in Easton, part of the Talbot Historical Society.) Clara Driscoll designed most of Louis Comfort Tiffany’s famous lampshades, including the Dragonfly, Wisteria and others. She worked for Louis...
History rings a bell
By DeeDee Wood (Editor’s note: DeeDee Wood is the store manager at Tharpe Antiques, in Easton, part of the Talbot Historical Society.) The earliest evidence archaeologically for bells dates back to Northern China from the 3,000 BC. Bells were used to produce harmonics...
Doing it Rococo style
by DeeDee Wood What is Rococo Style? How did it influence furnishings and decorative art? Style usually is influenced by the history and tastes of a region, and Rococo is decidedly French, branching out to other countries as it left its mark. Rococo was an 18th...
Curse of the Hope Diamond
The Hope Diamond is the most famous diamond in the world. It now resides in the Smithsonian Institute in Washington D.C., in the National Gem Collection. Many people know that it has a famous curse attached to it, but what are the details of the curse, and...
Corning, N.Y., ‘The Crystal City’
The city of Corning, N.Y., was once known by another name. Newspapers called it "The Crystal City" because of the large number of cut glass and glass products being produced there in the early 1900s that was sold all over the world. Local production...
Silhouettes: Outlining history
Silhouettes are thought of as a featureless side view of a person, with a backdrop of white or cream, usually in an old antique frame with some sort of historical value. Really, a silhouette is simply a person, animal, object or scene that is a solid black...
The world-famous antique clock: Rauthaus-Glockenspiel
There is a giant mechanical, working clock in the plaza, or Marienplatz of Munich, Germany. It is called the Rathaus-Glockenspiel, and it spins and moves and tells two different stories, high above the square, with life-sized wooden figures that move and...
