The Winter Antiques Show returned to the Park Avenue Armory for its 58th year, featuring 73 exhibitors from around the country. The opening- night reception was co-chaired by David, Charles, and Mark Rockefeller, whose family?s contributions to fine and decorative art throughout the Hudson Valley is chronicled in the on-loan exhibit "Celebrating Historic Hudson Valley at 60: Rockefeller Patronage in Sleepy Hollow Country."

Highlights this year included a gargantuan sarcophagus-style planter depicting the fall of Phaeton, from Barbara Israel Garden Antiques; a letter signed by Thomas Jefferson offered by the Kenneth W. Rendell Gallery; a telescope made for J. P. Morgan's yacht Corsair II from Hyland Granby; and a 16th century suit of northern Italian armor from Peter Finer.

The show benefited the East Side House Settlement, a non-profit organization that assists the Bronx community of Mott Haven, one of America's poorest congressional districts.