The Hudson-Fulton Celebration; Catalogue of an Exhibition Held in the Metropolitan Museum of Art Commemorative of the Tercentenary of the Discovery of the Hudson River by Henry Hudson in the Year 1609, and the Centenary of the First Use of Steam in the Navigat (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1909 Excerpt: ...E. Pelletrau, P. Quintard, George Ridout, W. Roe, Joel Sayre, Bartholomew Schaats, John and Peter Targee, Koenrast Ten Eyck, Andrew Underhill, Jacobus Vanderspiegel, Johannes Vanderspiegel, Peter Van Dyke, Richard Van Dyke, John Wendover, Hugh Wishart, Freeman Woods, and Benjamin Wyncoope. Another series of illustrations shows the variation of forms in different objects. TANKARDS were at first broad at the base, with straight, tapering sides, a flat top, scroll purchase, and S-shaped handle reinforced occasionally by a rib down the side, with plain whistleend. Later a mid band or bands were added, the covers domed, and the whistle end (bottom of the handle which was used to call for refilling) had a plain or decorated plate soldered on; finials were placed on the domed cover and a swelling drum introduced, the handles becoming more ornamental with double curves terminating in a scroll. They were without spouts, all such having been added. MUGS followed the fashion of tankards: they were sometimes two-handled, with a flat acanthus thumb-piece. Occasionally that had loose covers. BEAKERS in their simplest form were hammered out of a flat piece of silver and tapered toward the bottom; later a plain moulding or splayed foot was added; then came the moulded foot, with the lower part of cup gadrooned. These beakers were introduced at the beginning of the Seventeenth Century by emigrants from Holland and were used here, as in Holland and Scotland, as communion cups. CUPS were at first plain, later barrel-shaped with one or two handles, the latter being usually known as caudle cups. TEAPOTS and COFFEE POTS were few in this country before the middle of the Eighteenth Century. Early examples, small on account of the scarcity of tea, are of plain design, circular and b..