Delaware Antiques Show 2025

Friday, November 7 | 9:00–10:15 am Brock Jobe, Professor Emeritus of American Decorative Arts, Winterthur The ‘capricious, unprincipled, and ingenious’ William King, Furniture Maker of Salem, Massachusetts In 2000 Brock Jobe was appointed professor of American decorative arts in the Winterthur Program in American Material Culture after a 28-year career as a museum curator and administrator at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Colonial Williamsburg, the Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities (now Historic New England), and Winterthur. He has authored or edited seven books and written dozens of articles. Brock retired from his professorship in June 2015 but retains an office at Winterthur and continues to study, write, and lecture about American furniture. He presently serves as President of the Decorative Arts Trust and remains a dedicated volunteer at Winterthur. Adam Erby , Executive Director of Historic Preservation and the Martha Washington Chief Curator, George Washington’s Mount Vernon “La Peinture: The Rediscovery of George and Martha Washington’s Presidential Biscuit Porcelain Figures and Their Incredible Provenance” Adam Erby is the executive director of Historic Preservation and the Martha Washington Chief Curator at George Washington’s Mount Vernon. He is a graduate of the University of Virginia and the Winterthur Program in American Material Culture at the University of Delaware, and has worked at Mount Vernon since 2012 and has led a range of important projects, including the restoration of several rooms in the mansion and the curation of major exhibitions including Mount Vernon: The Story of an American Icon and Lives Bound Together, Slavery at Mount Vernon . A prolific lecturer and author, Adam is one of just a handful of authors who has written for both American Furniture and Ceramics in America . His articles include “Mostly new, and very elegant”: The Several Lives of George William and Sally Fairfaxes’ London-Made Furniture” published in American Furniture in 2019 and “He in Glory, America in Tears”: Jacob Perkins, Washington Funeral Medal, and Liverpool Jugs” in 2022 in Ceramics in America . The Chipstone Lectures feature authors of articles in Ceramics in America 2024 and American Furniture 2024 . Published annually since 2001 and 1993 respectively, these award-winning journals have been considered the journals of record for their fields and further the Chipstone Foundation’s mission to promote appreciation and understanding of American material culture. Ceramics in America 2024 is edited by Ronald W. Fuchs II and Robert Hunter and American Furniture 2024 is edited by Martha H. Willoughby. After the lectures, the speakers will be on hand to sign copies of the 2024 journals. CHIPSTONE LECTURES — 7 —