Showcasing deaccessioned textiles from the Brooklyn Museum: 18th-century crewel work bed hangings, lace, velvet, silk, and early Chinese Export examples. From a local collection: Brilliant Period Cut Glass by Sinclaire, Hawkes, Libbey, Hoare, and more. Antiquities include Egyptian, African, Colima, Peruvian, and other pre-Columbian artifacts, alongside Continental European items dating to the Byzantine period and the 16th-18th centuries. Also featuring a remarkable selection of fossils. Fine art paintings, furniture and decorative art objects.
As a singular figure in the world of American pottery and early textiles, Dr. Wahler was a celebrated curator, collector, and scholar. Early Southern furniture including four MESDA documented items: VA William and Mary paneled trunk, VA Chippendale Cupboard, TN inlaid cherry chest of drawers and a TN cherry high chest, many early Southern painted furniture examples, Ten Ulysses Davis folk art carvings, textiles to include a rare Asheville sampler dated 1824, quilt dated1861, rare Southern salt glaze and redware pottery examples to include TN, AL and NC.
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The Tatti Family has been at the center of the art world for three generations, casting, conserving, creating, and collecting. They have been artists, art historians, fabricators, and foundrymen, and have helped create and conserve diverse masterworks throughout much of the 20th century. Their includes over 150 paintings, drawings, sculptures, unique terracotta and plaster works by many of the most important artists of the 20th century, including Isamu Noguchi, Harry Bertoia, Joseph Stella, Anton Basky, Emil Carlsen, Frederick MacMonnies, Richard Hayley Lever, and many others.
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