![]() ![]() Van Sciver Co., Camden, N.J." Can you help?Ī: Joseph Bishop Van Sciver (1861-1943) was 21 years old when he started a small furniture business in Camden, N.J., in 1881. It has a frieze drawer with a metal tag in it that reads "J.B. The top is oval, made of very dark wood, and rests on two heavy turned tripods. I bought it from a resale shop 60 years ago. Q: I'm planning a house sale and I need help pricing this table. Now is the time to buy the bulbs that can be forced to bloom in a tulipiere during the spring. A few are offered in current gift catalogs. Most sources today think these vases were used for cut flowers, but they originally were used to force tulip, hyacinth or crocus bulbs to grow and bloom in the house.Ĭollectors can find rare early Dutch tulip vases, 19th-century Wedgwood or Staffordshire vases or Continental and American examples, all with multiple holes or tubes. A vase that is still called a "tulipiere" has numerous holes or short tubes, which hold a flower or plant. Tulip mania ended in 1637 but the flowers remained popular. So the flowers became a status symbol, and the very rich or royal bought huge flower containers to grow or show the flowers. ![]() Tulip mania, a strange financial "bubble" in Holland in the 1630s, made a tulip bulb cost up to 10 times the yearly income of a skilled craftsman, according to some writers. ![]()
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