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The 60th Annual

Delaware Antiques Show

November 10-12

WINTERTHUR, DE – One of the nation’s most acclaimed shows of
antiques, art, and design, the Delaware Antiques Show, returns to the
Chase Center on the Riverfront in Wilmington from November 10 to
November 12. The show features more than 60 of the country’s most
distinguished dealers in American antiques, furniture, paintings, rugs,
porcelain, silver, jewelry, and other decorative arts.
From the newest collector to the most knowledgeable connoisseur,
there is something for everyone. Tickets include lectures, book signings,
and admission to the show and to Winterthur Museum, Garden &
Library on the days of the Show.
Highlights include a keynote lecture entitled The New Antiquarians
and the Future of Connoisseurship by art historian, designer, and author
Michael Diaz-Griffith on Saturday, November 11 at 10 a.m., followed
by a book signing. The book features young antiques connoisseurs
whose interiors exemplify unorthodox approaches to living with objects
that reflect life and history.
Diaz-Griffith is executive director of the Design Leadership
Network. Prior to joining the DLN, he served as executive director
of Sir John Soane’s Museum Foundation and as associate executive
director of The Winter Show, America’s most prestigious and longest-
running art and antiques fair.
Young Scholars lectures, presented by students in the
Winterthur/University of Delaware Program in American Material
Culture and sponsored by The Decorative Arts Trust, will take place
Saturday, November 11, at 3 p.m. Becca Lo Presti will deliver her
lecture The Last Tall Clock in America? A Winterthur Tall Clock and
Time Telling in Nineteenth-Century America.
Taylor Rossini, will speak about Empire on a Plate: Imperial Rivalry and
Cartographic Knowledge in Overton’s Trading Part of the West Indies (1741).
The Sunday Lecture entitled A Storied Past: Collections of Historic
Odessa will be delivered on November 12 at 2 p.m. by Philip D.
Zimmerman. Author of A Storied Past: Collections of Historic Odessa
(Rowman & Littlefield, 2023), Zimmerman will present this epony-
mous lecture about the recent and ongoing research and interpretations
of the furnishings and other decorative arts at Historic Odessa in
southern New Castle County, Delaware. Historic Odessa has beautifully
restored 18th and 19th-century houses and an outstanding collection of
furnishings and fine and decorative arts. Many pieces of original family
furniture were made by prominent Delaware cabinetmakers of the 18th
century. The collections include major works of regional paintings,
prints, textiles, silver, pewter, and other metals.
Zimmerman will discuss new findings and interpretations as well as
the interlocking histories of many of the objects in this remarkable
collection. A museum and decorative arts consultant based in Lancaster,
Pennsylvania, Zimmerman is a prolific author, teacher, and lecturer and
author of numerous books, essays, and articles in books and periodicals
such as American Furniture and The Magazine Antiques. He holds a doc-
torate in American and New England Studies from Boston University
and a master’s degree from the Winterthur Program in Early American
Culture/University of Delaware. Book signing to follow the lecture.
Tickets are valid for each day of the show and include admission to
Winterthur Museum, Garden & Library on show days. To purchase
tickets, visit Winterthur.org/DAS or call 800-448-3883. For more
information, please email das@winterthur.org.
The Delaware Antiques Show benefits educational programming at
Winterthur. www.winterthur.org

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