Tag: Curious Objects

White jade cup with Daoist figures, China, Qing dynasty (1644–1911), 1736–1795. Palace Museum Collection, Beijing, ©故宫博物院; photograph courtesy of the Cleveland Museum of Art.White jade bowl with Daoist figures, China, Yuan dynasty (1271–1368), 1271–1368. Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio, anonymous gift. Clarissa von Spee, curator and Chair of Asian Art at the Cleveland Museum of Art, comes on the pod to discuss a pair of ornately carved Qing Dynasty jade vessels, made by masters in Suzhou, China. Probably luxury objects and perhaps gifts, they’re just a couple of the more than two hundred objects on view as part of

Scenes of Plains Indian Life made by Cadzi Cody (1866–1912; Wind River Shoshone), c. 1880, Minneapolis Institute of Art. This week host Benjamin Miller welcomes back an old friend: Glenn Adamson, ANTIQUES contributor and editor of Material Intelligence, an online quarterly published by the Chipstone Foundation. The upcoming issue of the journal concerns leather, one of the oldest as well as the commonest human-worked materials. From its sartorial to industrial applications (machine belts—sorry American bison), and its prevalence in sadomasochistic paraphernalia, Ben and Glenn cover the gamut.  Redemption (Copper/Champagne) sneakers by Lacour, 2023. Artist photograph.Gregorian reflecting telescope with