Queries

Magazine Antiques, June, 2004 by Remi Spriggs

HENRIETTA GARDNER MACY (1854-1927), a sculptor and teacher, was born in Decatur, Illinois. She studied at Antioch College in Yellow Springs, Ohio, and Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, New York, and taught kindergarten in Boston before leaving for Europe in the 1880s. She was a correspondent in Europe for the Brooklyn Eagle, Punch, and the Pall Mall Gazette. She settled in Venice, where she lived for nearly forty years until her death. Macy ran a school for poor children in Murano, Italy, and created casts of works of art, which she sold to tourists. Her model of the Palazzo Ducale in Venice is housed in the North End Branch of the Boston Public Library. For a forthcoming monograph and article, documentary information and the location of works by Macy are sought by

Patricia T. Thompson

Art Librarian

Joseph C. Sloane Art Library

3405 Hanes Art Center

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599

patt@unc.edu

BY THE 1890s Marcus and Company was an established jewelry concern in New York City. Its founder; Herman Marcus, first learned the jewelry trade in Dresden, Germany, before coming to New York City in 1850, where he worked for Tiffany and Company and then for Ball, Black and Company. In 1864 he entered into partnership with Theodore B. Starr under the name Starr and Marcus. In 1876 they exhibited jewelry at the Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia. The following year Marcus returned to Tiffany, where he remained until 1884. That year he formed Jaques and Marcus with his son, William, and George B. Jaques, which, in 1892, became Marcus and Company. They made costly diamond jewelry as well as artistic jewelry and silverware in the art nouveau style and were among the few American makers to incorporate plique-a-jour enameling. At the New York World's Fair in 1939-1940, they exhibited enameled floral jewelry. In 1962 Marcus and Company merged with Black, Starr and Frost. For a forthcoming article, the author is seeking information about Marcus and Company and the whereabouts of their jewelry and silverware.

Janet Zapata

21 Highland Avenue

Short Hills, New Jersey 07078

janetzapata@comcast.net

THE AMERICAN CERAMIC CIRCLE (ACC) awards grants of up to $5,000 to individuals for expenses associated with the preparation of scholarly papers based on original research in the history of ceramics. The grants provide assistance for costs such as travel and photography. Grant recipients are required to offer completed papers for publication in the American Ceramic Circle Journal and are invited to speak at the annual ACC symposium. The deadline for completed applications for 2005 is October 1, 2004. For an application form and a statement of general principles pertaining to the grants process, please write to:

Susan Detweiler

ACC Grants Chairman

8200 Flourtown Avenue, Suite 12

Wyndmoor, Pennsylvania 19038

sdetweiler@aol.com

The Magazine ANTIQUES invites submissions for Queries from researchers and institutions seeking information pertinent to the decorative and fine arts and architecture.

Edited by Remi Spriggs