Foreword by Kaywin Feldman, Director and President, Minneapolis Institute of Arts The Cahn Collection of Early American Silver - An Appreciation by David L. Barquist, The H. Richard Dietrich Jr. Curator of American Decorative Arts, Philadelphia Museum of Art A Handsome Cupboard of Plate: Early American Silver and Silversmiths - An Introductory Essay Catalogue I: Boston II: New York III: Philadelphia
Deborah Dependahl Waters is an independent historian of American decorative arts, specializing in silver and furniture of the Mid-Atlantic region. Since 1987 she has been a member of the part-time teaching faculty for the Parsons-Cooper-Hewitt M.A. Program in the History of Decorative Arts and Design, and is currently president of New York Silver Society, Inc. Following employment with Winterthur Museum, Library, and Garden (Winterthur, Delaware), Christie's New York, and the New York State Council on the Arts, she became Senior Curator of Decorative Arts and Manuscripts at the Museum of the City of New York in 1986, an appointment she held until 2008. She is the editor and an author of Elegant Plate: Three Centuries of Precious Metals in New York City (2000), and a contributor to Art in the Empire City: New York, 1825 - 1861 (2000), and (2007), as well as lead author of The Jewelry and Metalwork of Marie Zimmermann (2011).
The exhibition features more than 50 pieces of silver, and the catalog highlights 38 of them with full descriptions, including maker, dates, marks, provenance, inscriptions, size, publications, exhibitions, and a history of the piece. They are organized by place-Boston, New York, or Philadelphia-and the photographs are large enough to show details. The 1768 Van Wyck waiter by Myer Myers is given a foldout page to display it at full size. There are plenty of notes and references, an index, and a well-written introduction to the collection that discusses makers, forms, styles, and marks. Maine Antique Digest
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