The shop is open Wednesday through Saturday from 11 to 5, and Sundays from 12 to 4.
Today is Thursday, May 15 2008

Ask James Wilhoit how he first became interested in antiques, and he will go back many years to answer your question. Antiques were a family interest when he was growing up in his native Charlottesville. A little over ten years ago, he decided to give up his national labor law practice to concentrate on his hobby and make it his vocation. He has never regretted that decision for a moment.

That would be the beginning of what is today one of Alexandria's finest antique shops. James Wilhoit Antiques focuses on 18th and 19th Century formal American furniture and accessories of that period including silver, porcelain, crystal.

Some of his specialties are Federal furniture, Anglo-Irish glass, old Sheffield plate and 18th and 19th Century mirrors. The stock includes desks, chests of drawers, sideboards, dining tables and chairs, tole and papier mache trays on stands, and a broad array of Chinese porcelain lamps, side tables and candlestands.

Also, you will always find Chinese export, English, Old Paris, and German porcelain. Among the artists whose works will appear in his gallery are Anthony Thieme, Albert King, George Bickerstaff, Morris S Bloodgood, Ben Foster, Kenneth Newell Avery, Emile Gruppe, George Drew, Lucien Lewis Cassel, Frank Lucien Heath, Jonas Joseph LaValley and marine artists Warren Sheppard and George Howell Gay.

This shop also specializes in handcolored 18th Century engravings of birds by George Edwards and Mark Catesby, botanicals by George Brookshaw and J.W. Weinmann, 18th and 19th Century handcolored engravings of monkeys gathered from all over Europe as well as architectural engravings of classical subjects. Be sure to look for the Mckinney & Hall hand colored lithographs of American Indians done in the mid 19th Century.

If you have been to the gallery in the past, James Wilhoit moved to new quarters in July, 2000 and is now located in the Atrium Building next to the Lyceum in Historic Old Town.

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