Uncovering Our History Through The Relics Left Behind
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A young Isaac Scott Hathaway had slipped away from his father and sisters at the Cleveland museum. He went looking for a specific sculpture that he was certain would be there. Finally, the Rev. R.E.…
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For a second, I thought I had walked into a ceramics pottery store. Or one of those “make your own” pottery shops with students’ creations lining the shelves of two tall and expansive stands. This…
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Everywhere I went, I kept seeing these ceramic dogs, their faces turned sideways, with black noses and a fixed stare. First at one auction house, then at another. I saw the latest as I was…
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From a distance there at the auction house, the vintage stoneware washbasin in the cobalt blue floral design looked to be Flow Blue. It was on a shelf against a back wall with the “slightly better”…
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I was nonchalantly perusing the shelves of glassware at one of my favorite auction houses yesterday when something stopped me. There on a middle shelf were five head vases, all with red lips. This grouping…
I didn’t see much that moved me on the box-lots table in the back room of one of my favorite auction houses recently. Not until I spotted a light beige vase interspersed among some small junk…
I first learned about Dave the Potter when Winterthur, the former DuPont estate that is now a museum, held an exhibit of his stoneware pieces. The exhibit was called “‘I made this jar’ The Life…
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I was new to auctions when I saw my first piece of Delft pottery. It was in a glass cabinet with other “medium-high-end” items at what would become one of my favorite auction houses. It was…
I came across the name Stangl at an auction a couple years ago when I bought a lovely hand-colored pottery bird. The name was unfamiliar to me, but I’ve learned a lot about the company…
