December 14, 2013

Bluett & Sons

Bluett

Bluett & Sons exhibition of the George Eumorfopolous Collection; advert from Connoisseur, March 1935.

Dominic Jellinek, formerly of the major Chinese Works of Art dealership Bluett & Sons, contacted the project last week – thank you Dominic!

Bluett & Sons were one of the most significant dealerships in Chinese Works of Art; the firm was established c.1884 and continued trading until 1992.

Dominic has composed an extensive essay on Bluett & Sons, based on the archives of the dealership, with extracts from letters in the archive and overviews of the history of the firm.  The essay is part of another Arts and Humanities Research Board (now AHRC) funded project called CARP (Chinese Art – Research into Provenance).

You can read the full essay HERE

November 30, 2013

Antique Dealers support the project!

There has been a groundswell of support from the trade itself following the article about the project in the Antiques Trade Gazettte – with more support coming in daily – thanks indeed, so far, to Guy Apter, John Bly, Robin Butler, Geoffrey Godden, Edgar Harden, Dominic Jellinek, Christopher Payne, Andrew Whittaker, and Mark Dodgson at BADA

Thank You!

November 24, 2013

Project Team Meeting

We had a really productive project team meeting at the Royal Festival Hall in London yesterday. Very productive (and mind-bending) discussion about data-sets and ‘authority terms’ re the forthcoming interactive website for the project.  Sparky also amused us all with his ‘Lovejoy’ question….

Here’s the project team – left-to-right: Lizzy Jamieson (Research Fellow, University of Leeds); Mark Wales (smallhadroncollider.com) the software programmer for the interactive website, and Lovejoy fan; Me (Mark Westgarth, Principal Investigator, University of Leeds); Tim Banks (University of Leeds, PVAC Faculty IT Manager); Eleanor Quince (Co-Investigator, University of Southampton).

project team

November 24, 2013

Project makes front page news in Antiques Trade Gazette

We’ve made front page news in the Antiques Trade Gazette; we’ve had loads of responses to the project, so thank you to Mark and Ivan at the ATG!

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You can read the full story on the ATG website: http://www.antiquestradegazette.com/

November 9, 2013

Antique Dealer Histories

We are finding some fabulous published resources for the Antique Dealer project – much of which is very kindly being sent into the project by the trade itself!…here’s some fantastic early 20th century dealer catalogues from Phillips of Hitchin

thank you Jerome Phillips!Image

November 6, 2013

Changing Landscape of the Trade

The Antique Trade is certainly changing – the Thames Valley Antique Dealers’ Association (TVADA) is to disband by the end of this year – so the Antiques Trade Gazette reports, see:

http://www.antiquestradegazette.com/

More reason for the history of the antique trade to be captured and archived!

October 25, 2013

The Antique Dealers project blog goes LIVE

Welcome to the Antique Dealers AHRC project blog – we’ve set up the blog to allow anyone, anywhere, to follow and to contribute to the research project, so do sent us a note to antiquedealers@leeds.ac.uk for an invitation to post a blog entry!

Mark, Eleanor and Lizzy (Project Team)

invoice from Adams antiques

Invoice from Adams, Antique Dealer, Edinburgh and New York, 1907

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