Delaware Antiques Show 2025

AMERICANA INSIGHTS LECTURES Saturday, November 8 | 4:00–5:00 pm Lisa Minardi , Editor, Americana Insights, and Executive Director, Historic Trappe From Hubener to Medinger: Redware Potters of Southeastern Pennsylvania Lisa Minardi will delve into the work of Georg Hubener and Jacob Medinger, among the first and last of the traditional Pennsylvania German potters, in conjunction with her essays on their work in Americana Insights 2025 . She will also give an overview of the companion exhibition From Hubener to Medinger: Redware Potters of Southeastern Pennsylvania , on view at Historic Trappe from November 8, 2025, to March 29, 2026. Laini Farrare , Mary Church Terrell Fellow, History Department, University of Delaware ‘God Bless You All in Food and Drink’: Sgraffito Teaware in Pennsylvania Join Ph.D. student scholar Laini Farrare as she explores a small group of remarkable graffito-decorated redware from the Winterthur collection that blends Germanic decoration with Anglo-American ceramic traditions. Farrare reveals how these highly decorated objects challenge assumptions about cultural identity in eighteenth-century southeastern Pennsylvania, uncovering the region’s fluid and hybrid design vocabularies across ethnic, linguistic, and racial lines. Christopher Malone , Curator, Historic Trappe Black, White, and Green All Over: The Potter Once Known as Solomon Grim Christopher Malone will reveal groundbreaking new evidence about redware pottery formerly attributed to Solomon Grim of Berks County, Pennsylvania. Through linguistic examination and a careful study of the pottery’s provenance, this vibrant work now finds a new place in history. Americana Insights 2025 is the third volume in an annual series that presents the latest research and discoveries on traditional Americana, folk art, and material culture. Today’s speakers are featured in the third annual edition, in addition to the following: Johanna Brown, R. Erich Hess, Karl Pass, Candace Perry, Jeffrey Pressman, Jean Renshaw, Justin Thomas, Adam Zayas. Edited by Lisa Minardi. October 2025. Book signing to follow lecture. — 10 —