Beyond Blue and White

“A journey through history as delightful and intricate as the artform it follows. The author’s hand tracing a path for us to follow, over the surface of a gleaming puzzle-jug and through the lives of the women who intersected with it.” – Naomi Novak, New York Times bestselling author of Uprooted and A Deadly Education“A captivating history of Delftware and the extraordinary women who ran the potteries and collected the beautiful Dutch ceramics, as well as the innovative and inspiring women who created the arts institutions that would display Delftware to a broad audience. Framed in an engaging and quick paced personal narrative, Brown weaves a brilliant historical story. I highly recommend this book!” – Leslie Banker, author of Think Like a Decorator“Brown shows us that the story of blue and white is not black and white at all. This is a richly hued narrative filled with depth and surprises. Some of the best characters are the objects themselves, improbable Delftware survivors—desired, dusted, coveted, ignored—now pointing us to a series of remarkable women fiercely devoted to the medium over centuries.” – Christine Coulson, author of Metropolitan Stories and One Woman Show“A quest to uncover a New York fine arts mystery, told as if in the delicate northern light of a Vermeer painting. I loved it: I won’t look at Dutch porcelain in the same way again, and I might not look at the Netherlands in the same way again either.”   – Victoria Finlay, author of Fabric: The Hidden History of the Material World

Genevieve Wheeler Brown is a decorative art advisor and writer with over thirty years in the art world, including a decade with Christie’s in New York and London. She has been actively involved in the community of Delftware and has participated on the Antiques Roadshow as an appraiser. In her role, she has held innumerable objects, from fake Stradivari violins to gold-mounted Faberge eggs, considering their value but also the stories they can tell.