Majolica, Paintings and Ebay...OH MY!!!!

Hiya folks!!!!

I'm writing in a different size font today.

Please let me know if this is too small, or if this is a better size to read.

There are so many different contraptions people use to read blogs, 

that I don't know what size is best.

With that being said!!!!

On with talking about more stuff!!!!

When we last left our heroine, we were looking at the tschatchkes in her living room......

OK, that's as long as I can refer to myself in the third person......

When I stopped Fridays blog, it was because blogger was having fits, and typing right off the page. 

So I will continue at the point I left off.

In order to look super smart, I have been googling all the stuff I'm showing you.

So it looks like I know what I writing about.

AND I JUST FOUND OUT SOMETHING REALLY COOL!!!!!

The dish shown in the photo above, as was previously stated. is majolica.

OK, that I knew.........

What I didn't know (or I may have known at one time, and have forgotten)

(that is starting to happen, more and more)

(It's not 'cuz I'm old, it's 'cuz I know SO MUCH STUFF there is no way I can remember it all!!!)

OY, where was I?????

Oh, yeah, it's majolica, but it's English majolica.

Then the Americans got in on this pattern, and started making some.

The American pottery is called Etruscan, and has a stamp like this on the  back.....

The American pottery is not as common, and tends to be more colorful.

I have four pieces of it.

Who Knew???

Here's a close up of the Etruscan.....

OK, enough about majolica, 

I'm getting bored, so you probably are too.....

Next!!!

Lets talk about my white and turquoise collection.

What's really weird, is that this stuff is from America and England also.

The American pottery is called Catalina, and was made in California from 1927-1942.

It's the stuff with the white outside, and the blue inside......

Looking at this collection, I could have sworn I had more Poole Pottery,

(the blue shell with the white inside). 

But I must have been thinking of what I found for my client and friend, Connie.

So.....

Connie.....

See how I put you first???????

Anyway, not that any of you really care, but Poole Pottery is from England.

I know......Big whoop, right?????

Some vases.....

A bowl.....

Some more vases.....

A console bowl.....

Generally.....

If you group enough of one type of thing together.... it forms a collection...and can look pretty cool!!!!!

I really like this vignette.....

I think it has a lot of humor.......

and besides.....it's pretty!!!!!

The ceramic parrots are from Germany.

They were produced in the Karl Ens Volsktedt factory.

Sometime between 1890 and 1972. 

I don't know when, don't ask ME!!

Continuing the parrot theme.....

I found this GREAT!!! oil painting from some place in Europe, I can't remember where.....

Of course I bought it on ebay.....

'course, I could say I got it in my extensive travels.....

BUT I DON'T LIKE TO TRAVEL...

because....then I'm not home.

And I LOVE BEING HOME!!!!!

(I want to sleep in my bed with my pillow!!!)

(My family and friends think I'm set in my ways)

(HA!)

OY, where was I?????  

Oh, yeh... My stuff...This oil painting....Of some parrots....

It's flanked by a pair of Cuban watercolors that I just love.

The frames came this way, all chippy and wonderful...

Gawd!!!

I can't believe how much there is to share with the class!!!!

This is turning into a really long post, so let me end here.....

And I will finish up this room, next time.

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