8 Results for tag "Amazing Stories"

• A Flowerpot with a Family History?

  Today we’re featuring a flowerpot, which you can see in the exhibition “American Folk Pottery: Art and Tradition,” currently on view in the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Museum, one of the newly expanded and updated Art Museums of Colonial Williamsburg and home to the nation’s premier collection of American …

• A Southern Loyalist’s silver belt plate of the Revolutionary War

  Today we’re looking at the only known piece of Southern-made military silver dating from the American Revolution. Found in the “A Rich and Varied Culture” exhibition, this is part of the DeWitt Wallace Decorative Arts Museum, home to remarkable objects that are useful as well as beautiful. This is one …

• Mapping Colonial South Carolina and Georgia

  The Art Museums of Colonial Williamsburg are home to a breathtaking range of folk and decorative art. Uncover the history behind beautiful objects in masterfully curated exhibitions in our series “Amazing Stories. Beautifully Told.”Today we’re looking at A Map of South Carolina and a part of Georgia found in the …

• The Right Stuff! A Black Worsted Wool Gown

  The Art Museums of Colonial Williamsburg are home to a breathtaking range of folk and decorative art. Uncover the history behind beautiful objects in masterfully curated exhibitions in our series “Amazing Stories. Beautifully Told.”Today we’re looking at a remade black worsted or “stuff” gown found currently on view in the …

• Historical Portrait of George Washington

  The Art Museums of Colonial Williamsburg are home to a breathtaking range of folk, fine, and decorative art. Uncover the history behind beautiful objects in masterfully curated exhibitions in our series “Amazing Stories. Beautifully Told.”Today we’re looking at a portrait of George Washington currently on view in “Early American Faces,” …

• A Well-traveled Teapot Returns to Williamsburg

  The Art Museums of Colonial Williamsburg are home to a breathtaking range of folk and decorative art. Uncover the history behind beautiful objects in masterfully curated exhibitions in our series “Amazing Stories. Beautifully Told.”Today we’re looking at a silver teapot featured in “‘Every Article Suitable for this Country’: Furnishing Early …

• Miniature Menagerie: A German Toy in America

  The Art Museums of Colonial Williamsburg are home to a breathtaking range of folk and decorative art. Uncover the history behind beautiful objects in masterfully curated exhibitions in our series “Amazing Stories. Beautifully Told.”

• “By His Hand”

  The Art Museums of Colonial Williamsburg are home to a breathtaking range of folk and decorative art. Uncover the history behind beautiful objects in masterfully curated exhibitions in our series “Amazing Stories. Beautifully Told.”Today we’re looking at a sideboard, found in the Blagojevich Gallery of The DeWitt Wallace Decorative Arts …