The Annual Delaware Antiques Show
November 10-12, 2023
800.448.3883 • winterthur.org/DAS

WILMINGTON, DEL. – One of the nation’s most acclaimed shows of antiques, art and design, the Delaware Antiques Show, returns to the Chase Center on the Riverfront in Wilmington, November 10-12. The show features more than 60 dealers in American antiques, furniture, paintings, rugs, porcelain, silver, jewelry and other decorative arts.

From the newest collector to the most knowledgeable connoisseur, there is something for everyone. Tickets include lectures, book signings and admission to the show and to Winterthur Museum, Garden & Library on the days of the show.

Highlights include a keynote lecture titled “The New Antiquarians and the Future of Connoisseurship” by art historian, designer and author Michael Diaz-Griffith on Saturday, November 11, at 10 am, followed by a book signing. The New Antiquarians: At Home with Young Collectors is his first book. The book features young antiques connoisseurs whose interiors exemplify unorthodox approaches to living with objects that reflect life and history.

Diaz-Griffith is executive director of the Design Leadership Network. Prior to joining the DLN, he served as executive director of Sir John Soane’s Museum Foundation and as associate executive director of The Winter Show, America’s most prestigious and longest-running art and antiques fair.

Young Scholars lectures, presented by students in the Winterthur/University of Delaware Program in American Material Culture and sponsored by the Decorative Arts Trust, will take place Saturday, November 11, at 3 pm. Becca Lo Presti will deliver her lecture “The Last Tall Clock in America? A Winterthur Tall Clock and Time Telling in Nineteenth Century America.”

Taylor Rossini, will speak about “Empire on a Plate: Imperial Rivalry and Cartographic Knowledge in Overton’s Trading Part of the West Indies (1741).”

The Sunday lecture titled “A Storied Past: Collections of Historic Odessa” will be delivered on November 12 at 2 pm by Philip D. Zimmerman. Author of A Storied Past: Collections of Historic Odessa (Rowman & Littlefield, 2023), Zimmerman will present this eponymous lecture about the recent and ongoing research and interpretations of the furnishings and other decorative arts at Historic Odessa in southern New Castle County, Del. Historic Odessa has beautifully restored Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century houses and a collection of furnishings and fine and decorative arts. Many pieces of original family furniture were made by prominent Delaware cabinetmakers of the Eighteenth Century. The collections include major works of regional paintings, prints, textiles, silver, pewter and other metals.

Zimmerman will discuss new findings and interpretations as well as the interlocking histories of many of the objects in this collection. A museum and decorative arts consultant based in Lancaster, Penn., Zimmerman is a prolific author, teacher and lecturer and author of numerous books, essays and articles in books and periodicals such as American Furniture and The Magazine Antiques. He holds a doctorate in American and New England Studies from Boston University and a master’s degree from the Winterthur Program in Early American Culture / University of Delaware. Book signing to follow the lecture.

Tickets are valid for each day of the show. To purchase tickets, visit www.winterthur.org/das or call 800-448-3883. For more information, email das@winterthur.org.

Location: The Chase Center on the Riverfront is located at 815 Justison Street, Wilmington, Delaware, less than one hour south of Philadelphia, and midway between New York City and Washington, D.C.