Uncovering Our History Through The Relics Left Behind
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I’ve come to love the blue and white colors of Delftware, a pottery that has been made for centuries in Delft, Holland. But I had never seen these earthtone colors before, the ones captured so delicately…
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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…
I have a friend who bleeds red. Not in the color of blood but the apple red color of her sorority Delta Sigma Theta. I have another friend who bleeds pink and green – as…
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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…
