EVENTS

One of the nation’s most highly acclaimed antiques shows presents a spectacular showcase of art, antiques, and design! Featuring the finest offerings from more than sixty distinguished dealers, the Delaware Antiques Show highlights the best of American antiques and decorative arts. Join us for a full schedule of exciting show features sure to captivate the sophisticated and new collector alike.

Opening Night Party

Please join Winterthur Museum, Garden & Library and Wilmington Trust for the opening of the show with cocktails, hors d’oeuvres, and exclusive early shopping!

• Sponsor: $250 per person, includes admission at 5:00 pm
• Patron: $175 per person, 6:00 pm entry
• Young Collector: $125 per person, 6:00 pm entry

Opening Night Party ticket valid for admission to all days of the show and to Winterthur during the show dates. All lectures are included with show admission.

Thursday, November 14 | 5:00–9:00 pm Purchase tickets.

General Admission

$25 per person; $20 Winterthur Members. Children under 12 free.

Ticket valid for admission to all days of the show and to Winterthur during the show dates. All lectures are included with show admission.

• Friday, November 15 | 11:00 am–6:00 pm Purchase tickets.
• Saturday, November 16 | 11:00 am–6:00 pm Purchase tickets.
• Sunday, November 17 | 11:00 am–5:00 pm Purchase tickets.

Location & Parking

The Chase Center on the Riverfront is located at 815 Justison Street, Wilmington, Delaware, less than one hour south of Philadelphia, and midway between New York City and Washington, D.C.

Ample free parking. Accessible parking for persons with disabilities.

Keynote Lecture | Saturday, November 16, 10:00 am Uprooted Elegance: The Surprising Journey of American Garden Ornament by Barbara Frelinghuysen Israel ,

After nearly forty years as an antique garden ornament dealer, Barbara Israel has gathered plenty of stories. This lecture delves into the many gardens, experiences, and
intriguing personalities she has encountered over the years, ranging from the sublime to the nefarious (and everything in between). Barbara Frelinghuysen Israel founded Barbara Israel Garden Antiques in 1985. Nearly forty years and hundreds of exquisite objects later, she is recognized as an authority on the subject, and her book Antique Garden Ornament: Two Centuries of American Taste is the definitive work in the field. Barbara has served as a consultant to The Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Smithsonian Institution for their collections of nineteenth-century cast iron. Barbara Israel Garden Antiques has been featured in The New York Times, House & Garden, Martha Stewart Living, and Flower magazine, among others. Book signing to follow lecture. Headshot by Bryan Goldberg Photography.

Saturday, November 11, 2:00 pm, sponsored by The Decorative Arts Trust Student Scholars Lectures

Student Scholars Lectures | Saturday, November 16, 2:00 pm

Student Scholars lectures sponsored by the Decorative Arts Trust.

Of the Earth: Neoclassicism and Natural History in a Philadelphia Center Table by Steven Baltsas, Lois F. McNeil Fellow

In creating the ideal center table, Baltsas shows how a cabinetmaker in antebellum Philadelphia harnessed the city’s insatiable attraction to ancient and natural history. Inlaid with floriated brass patterns against flame-like mahogany crotch veneer, this peerless classical table testifies to intellectual culture’s impact on furniture design in the early nineteenth-century Atlantic world.

“To Imitate China”: A Close Reading of a Pair of Eighteenth-Century Hand-Screens by Lanah Swindle, Lois F. McNeil Fellow

Swindle grapples with anti-Chinese sentiment in imagery preserved on a pair of eighteenth-century hand-screens. The survival of these objects, made between 1759 and 1770 for fashionable circles in London and Paris, presents an opportunity to reflect on the dissemination of racial stereotypes of Chinese people through decorative art forms made by and for Euro-Atlantic audiences in the eighteenth century.

Performance and Pleasure at the Early Modern Table  by Graham Titus, Lois F. McNeil Fellow

By 1650, a nascent English glass industry supplied elite diners with the tableware necessary for increasingly luxurious and performative feasts. Through the discussion of a seventeenth-century glass salver in Winterthur’s collection, Titus explores changing dining practices and food ways at a defining moment for the modern meal.

Delaware Antiques Show Exhibitors

Arader Galleries
Jeffrey Tillou Antiques
Aronson of Amsterdam
Johanna Antiques
Avery Galleries
Jonathan Trace
Barbara Israel Garden Antiques
Kelly Kinzle
A Bird in Hand Antiques
Levy Galleries
Blandon Cherry Antiques
Lillian Nassau, LLC
Charles Clark
Marcy Burns American Indian Arts, LLC
Charles Plante Fine Arts
Martyn Edgell Antiques, Ltd.
Christopher H. Jones American Antiques
Nathan Liverant and Son, LLC
Dan and Karen Olson Antiques
The Norwoods’ Spirit of America
David Brooker Fine Art
Olde Hope
David Schorsch-Eileen Smiles
Oliver Garland
Diana H. Bittel Antiques
The Parker Gallery
Dixon-Hall Fine Art
Peter H. Eaton Antiques
D. M. Delaurentis Fine Antique Prints
Ralph M. Chait Galleries, Inc.
Earle D. Vandekar of Knightsbridge, Inc.
R. M. Worth Antiques
Elle Shushan
Schillay Fine Art, Inc.
Elliott and Grace Snyder Antiques
Schoonover Studios, Ltd.
Francis J. Purcell, Inc.
Schwarz Gallery

Greg K. Kramer & Co.
Scott Bassoff, Sandy Jacobs Antiques
G. Sergeant Antiques
Shaia Oriental Rugs of Willamsburg
The Hanebergs Antiques
Silver Art by D & R
Hilary and Paulette Nolan
S. J. Shrubsole Antique Silver and Jewelry
H. L. Chalfant American Fine Art and Antiques
Somerville Manning Gallery
Ita J. Howe
Spencer Marks, Ltd.
James L. Price Antiques
Steven F. Still Antiques
James M. Kilvington, Inc.
Sumpter Priddy III, Inc.
James Robinson, Inc.
Thistlewaite Americana
Janice Paull
Walker Decorative Arts
Jayne Thompson Antiques
William R. Teresa F. Kurau
Jeff R. Bridgman American Antiques