Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Unusual Pennsylvania Furniture in Maple, Walnut, and Mahogany: Rare Early Pennsylvania Birth and Marriage Certificates Illuminated by Provincial Artists; Pottery, Porcelains, Glassware, Wood Carvings, Quilts; The Schuyler Brinckerhoff Jackson Collection
As the Nation rises in its maturity, the articles here offered to the public will take on added significance as memorials of happy life-days of the Nation's youth. In their art they touch the circle of the feelings belonging to those days: in their craft they touch those household materials on which men, in times past, engraved their most intimate will.
These Pennsylvania pieces, though almost without exception rare, have not been collected because they were rare, but because, as it has so far befallen, the good has been also the rare. The pieces, wherever possible, were chosen as exemplars - of the American spirit, and of that spirit we name humane. They are, in Short, real as well as rare.
The bare eternal emotions that Mankind clothes and reclothes with His passing generations are embodied here - in wood, in earthen wares, in textiles, and in painted symbolical designs. Who takes home some of these things takes home portions of eternity.
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