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NEW YORK CITY — Laura Fisher: Antique Quilts and Americana will bring folk art made in New York City and New York State from the Nineteenth and early Twentieth Centuries to the American Antiques Show, in the Time Warner building January 19–23. Fisher’s collection represents the artistic continuity of the New York region as shown in its textile arts over the centuries.

Among the pieces she will exhibit are a pictorial quilt featuring New York City Art Deco era landmarks and women; a unique funny-pages pictorial quilt that was entered into the Buffalo Evening and Sun Times newspaper Picture Study contest of cities and towns in 1925; patterns published by Vogue Arts Company; a memorial needlework picture by Agnes Wilkins in 1811 depicting Old St Patrick’s Cathedral in Lower Manhattan;

Also, a Long Island family record sampler by Betsey Howell for John and Eliza Howell, 1837; a needlework picture of the Crystal Pavilion from the 1853 New York exhibition; a Long Island candlewick bedspread signed by girls from Riverhead and Bayshore, 1876; the New York State Seal, “Fearless and Independent,” a Japanese export silk work picture; an unusual dimensional candlewick embroidered center medallion quilt signed Lima, New York, circa 1830; a “World Without End” pattern square hooked rug, 9 feet, made by Muriel Simonson of Oneonta, N.Y.; and Jacquard woven coverlets by prominent New York State weavers: Archibald Davidson, Ithaca; Harry Tyler, Jefferson County; Jacob Impson, Cortland.

The American Antiques Show is at the Time Warner Center at Columbus Circle, enter on 60Street through the Jazz at Lincoln Center marquee. Laura Fisher: Antique Quilts and Americana is in Booth 20. Show hours are Wednesday, 5:30 to 9 pm; Thursday and Friday, noon to 8 pm; Saturday, noon to 7 pm; and Sunday, noon to 5 pm. For information 212-838-2596 or LauraFisherquilts.com

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TEA & SWEETS SERVED AT THE CONCORD MUSEUM w/no cuts

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CONCORD, MASS. — In a time-honored tradition, the public is invited to “take tea” at the Concord Museum on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursday through March 31 from 1 to 3 pm. Brooke Hall is the venue for a relaxing afternoon of tea and sweets. Tea is served on a walk-in, space-available basis at $7 per person.

Tea drinking is documented in Concord in probate inventories as early as 1729. A Nineteenth Century note on a Concord teapot in the Concord Museum’s collection records that “they went down cellar to make their tea not to have it known they had it” before and during the Revolution when tea was boycotted. Artist Ruth Bascom’s journal of the time she spent in Concord in the 1830s is filled with references to “taking tea” — a ritual recorded by Bascom nearly every afternoon. Ellen Emerson, daughter of Lidian and Ralph Waldo Emerson, writing in 1877, tells of a visit to a local Concord home, “Tuesday I went to tea at Mrs Edward Damon’s, beautiful family, good time…”

The museum’s galleries offer a glimpse of some of the many Concord artifacts related to tea drinking, including a 1774 covenant agreeing to boycott tea, as well as silver tea equipage by Boston silversmith Paul Revere and by the noted Concord silversmith Samuel Bartlett. After January 29, the special exhibition, “Connecticut Valley Furniture by Eliphalet Chapin and His Contemporaries, 1759–1800,” developed by the Connecticut Historical Society Museum, explores the legacy of Chapin and other highly skilled furniture makers.

The Concord Museum is at the intersection of Lexington Road and Cambridge Turnpike. For information, www.ConcordMuseum.org or 978-369-9609.