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Curious Objects — 134 episodes · page 1 of 2
The Glass Gaze - Learn about the history of the prosthetic eye!
The Road to Destruction - How one man stole the divine
Oops I Did It Again - Editing Errors in a Pre-Digital Print World
Curious Objects at Brunk Auctions
Camera Ready
An Earthly Paradise
Have Hope Will Sparkle
Something Blue - Delftware ceramics and the women who made them
Painting with Glass in Limoges
135,500 Pieces (Of Wood)
Fighting for Freedom
"Junking" with Ralph Lauren Creative Director Mary Randolph Carter
Lost and Found in Cleveland
THROWBACK: Thirty-Five Saxon Suits of Armor, with Chassica Kirchhoff
Introducing the Fine Objects Society
THROWBACK: The Argument for Silver Tableware
From Barn to Yarn: The story of spinning wheels, with Heavenly Bresser
Learning to Love Antique Rugs, with Jan David Winitz: Part 2
Learning to Love Antique Rugs, with Jan David Winitz: Part 1
The curious histories behind board games, at the American Folk Art Museum
Tiffany's frog-shaped creamer and pufferfish sugar dish, at the Met
CO Bites: Pretty, Dangerous
Introducing Mitchell Owens
The "Confirmed Bachelor" Who Forever Changed American Homes
THROWBACK: The WPA Origins of the American Doll, with Allison Robinson
Whale Teeth and the Pirate Princess
Are Trends Sooo Over?
The Secret Code Book at the Independence Seaport Museum
Discovering a Forgotten Folk Artist at the Independence Seaport Museum
A Precious 17th-Century Kleenex
Rescued by the Romanovs, a Fabergé Treasure Comes to Market
Advice Ep: How to Buy an Antique/Vintage Rug
THROWBACK: This Chair Is Made of America
CO Bites: A Pitch-Perfect Vermont Songbook
The Book of Dragons (and the Con Artist Who Made It), with Rebecca Romney
Remembering Greg Cerio
CO Bites: Toshiko Takaezu's "Closed Form," with Glenn Adamson
Taylor Thistlethwaite Gets Excited About "Brown Furniture"
THROWBACK: Once Upon a Bowl
Ben visits the Art Slice podcast
Advice Ep: How to Buy a Vintage Engagement Ring
The Woman Who Saved Wedgwood
"Enriching Your Life Through Collecting" at the Winter Show
The Beatles as Painters
The Marginalia That Made Christie's Value This Book at $1 Million
Advice Ep: Making Your Home a Source of Inspiration, with Tara McCauley
Ask Ben Anything
END OF YEAR THROWBACK: A Conversation with Luthier Paul Becker
Lewis Littlepage and the Amazing Silk-embroidered Dreamsuit
What makes Thomas Cole's "Course of Empire" Cycle as Relevant Today as in the 19th Century
A Met Curator Tells the Strange Story of Louis XIV's Carpets
Jewelry We Love and Hate, with Gem X
THANKSGIVING THROWBACK: The House that Vanderbilt—Gilded Age Mansions of Newport, RI
Debunking the Hitler Diaries and Other Adventures, with Kenneth Rendell
Meet the Millennials Proving that Young People Love Old Things
Should Antiquities Return to Where They Came From?
All About Amber, with Laura Kugel
Why You Should Spend $10,000 on a Shaving Bowl
"Antiques Roadshow" Appraiser Nick Dawes
A Newly Unearthed George Washington Letter, with Nathan Raab
Jade, the Imperial Gem, with Clarissa von Spee
Leather, with Glenn Adamson
A Journey Back In Time At the Peabody Essex Museum
Around the World at the Peabody Essex Museum
New Perspectives on Ancient Glass, with Katherine Larson
The New Antiquarians
Textiles Don't Get No Respect
Of Shoes and Ships and Sealing Wax, with Kay Collier
Gilded-Age Silver with the Gilded Gentleman
Thomas Commeraw, Free Black Potter in 1800s New York
Collecting Outside the Lines
The Shakers, Pt. 2: Afterlife
The Shakers, Pt. 1: Faith and Furniture
The Story of Bélizaire, Pt. 3: The End; or, A New Beginning
The Story of Bélizaire, Pt. 2: Provenance
The Story of Bélizaire, Pt. 1: Biography
Bonus Episode: Craft in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction
Once Upon a Bowl
The Case for Silver Tableware
This Chair Is Made of America
How to Make a Modern Home (with Antiques), featuring Thomas Jayne
O'Keeffe on the Block
The WPA Origins of the American Doll, with Allison Robinson
English Glass/Chinese Craft
Bill Traylor on the Silver Screen, with filmmakers Sam Pollard and Jeffrey Wolf
Museums and the Lure of the Sell-Off, with the PMA's director and CEO Timothy Rub
The Book of Hours: A Medieval Best-Seller
Corot's Impressionist Lunchbox
Five Hundred Years of American Craft, with Glenn Adamson
Blended Spirits: A Curious Objects Cocktail Hour at the Winter Show
Mystery Box
What two paintings from the 1930s can tell us about women's issues
A Dalva Brothers Wonder Cabinet Turns Heads at Christie's
"The Most Awesome Cup of All Time" . . . and 500 Other Objects
A Fireback from Hell—Ironworks and Industrial Labor in the Antebellum South, with Torren Gatson
A Journey to the Center of the Earth, with Robert McCracken Peck
An Armchair's Astonishing Provenance, with Tiffany Momon
The Life and Labor of Enslaved Potter Dave Drake, with Ethan Lasser
Thirty-five Saxon Suits of Armor, with Chassica Kirchhoff
SPECIAL EPISODE 4: Licking Glass, Smelling Silver, and Other Tricks of the Trade