Articles

A selection of recent articles available online by the staff of the Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts at Old Salem

The Magazine ANTIQUES (March 2012)
Teamwork in Piedmont North Carolina
Robert Leath, Chief Curator

The Magazine ANTIQUES (January 2012)
Miniature Discoveries
Robert Leath, Chief Curator

The Magazine ANTIQUES (January 2012)
Living With Antiques: On Southern Turf - A Look at the Collection and Home of a MESDA Advisory Board Member
Sarah Campbell Drury

Antiques and Fine Arts (Autumn/Winter 2011)
1720s Armorial Silver Cann from Charleston, South Carolina
Taylor Thistlethwaite, MESDA Summer Institute Fellow

The Magazine ANTIQUES (July 2011)
Living With Antiques: The Kentucky collection of MESDA Advisory Board Members Sharon and Mack Cox
Daniel Ackermann, Associate Curator

Antiques and Fine Arts (Spring 2011)
Meanings and Metaphor in North Carolina Slipware
Luke Beckerdite, Independent Scholar and editor of American Furniture
Johanna Brown, Curator of Moravian Decorative Arts
Robert Hunter, Independent Scholar and editor of American Ceramics

Antiques and Fine Arts (Spring 2011)
“The Neatest Pieces of Any Description”: Piedmont North Carolina Furniture, 1780-1860
June Lucas, Director of Research

The Magazine ANTIQUES (April/May 2010)
Living with Antiques: Shearer Energy
Daniel Ackermann, Associate Curator

Ceramics in America (2009)
Tradition and Adaptation in Moravian Press-Molded Earthenware
Johanna Brown, Curator of Moravian Decorative Arts

TheMagazineANTIQUES.com (November 2009)
My MESDA
Daniel Ackermann, Associate Curator

Antiques and Fine Arts (Winter/Spring 2009)
Black and White all Mix’d Together”: The Hidden Legacy of Enslaved Craftsmen
Daniel Ackermann, Associate Curator

The Magazine ANTIQUES (May 2008)
Servitude and Splendor: The Craftsmen and Carved Furniture of the Rappahannock River Valley, 1740 to 1780
Robert Leath, Chief Curator