The presentation of the 30th anniversary edition of the Armonk Antiques Show at Bryam Hills High School was like one of the many carefully wrapped packages that were leaving booths in buyers’ hands during the April 26′7 show.
Exhibiting the finest characteristics of the exemplary antiques it was showcasing, the event epitomized form and design, using the school’s spaces to the best advantage and offering shoppers a pleasing variety of merchandise in attractive displays. The show was sponsored by the North Castle Historical Society, which offered a small exhibition of its collection during the show.
Fine china took center stage at The Victorian Rose, Wenham, Mass., which offered Limoges, Lenox, in a host of elegant or whimsical patterns. A Shelly Primrose breakfast set in a sunny yellow floral pattern was especially pleasing to the eye.
Nicholas di Benedetto, East Quogue, N.Y., offered an Eighteenth Century oak oval drop leaf table, an interesting collection of doorstops and a fine Wells Moses Sawyer painting, “Spanish Village with Bridge in the Pyrenees.”
Modern design was prominently featured at Anthony Rosa, Beacon, N.Y., who showed a pair of collages by Marilyn Magaliff, circa 1974, and a sublime work by Joseph Migden, a self-taught artist from western New York known for his farmhouse scenes.
The Ensinger Collection, Surfside Beach, S.C., showed a Venetian painted two-drawer chest, circa 1900, an interesting Prohibition table from a Hollywood estate with secret cup holders, as well as fine examples of Asian art for which the dealers are known. A standout along a back wall of the booth was a pair of palace doors that have improved with age, complete with wrought iron flashing and lion door knockers.
Proving that antiques are twice as nice in pairs, D&D Antiques, Newtown, Conn., showed a pair of carved and painted chairs, a fine pair of Italian earthenware platters and a pair of pottery lamps with dragons.
Richard Orsatti Antiques of Torrington, Conn., exhibited a pleasing pair of Roseville vessels and an Eighteenth Century William and Mary chest.
Specializing in period antiques, decorative objects and fine art, Glenbrook Antiques, Woodstock, N.Y., can be counted on to bring beautiful examples of “brown furniture” to whatever antiques show it is displaying at, and its booth did not disappoint.
Furniture standouts included an Empire dresser, circa 1840, and a classical period pier table, circa 1830, probably Boston. There was plenty else to admire in the booth, however, such as a pair of Marshall Studios lamps with leather shades, a oil on canvas landscape by G.H. Bogert and a five-piece Reed & Barton silver plate tea set, circa 1950.
Noteworthy at Jaffe & Thurston was a Georgian-style inlaid and burl wood demilune single-drawer table, Twentieth Century, a Nineteenth Century cast spelter figure of Johannes Guttenberg at 26¼ inches high, and Alfred Vicker’s gouache, “Return from Haying.”
Africk/Moniz, Stamford, Conn., which specializes in antique sterling silver (particularly English), Old Sheffield plate and later plate pieces with stellar form and design, offered a sparkling assortment of wares from which buyers could choose.
For information, contact show promoter Martin Greenstein at 914-572-4132.
