Tropical Cottage Accessories Galore!!!!!

 

Today we will have a visual orgy of tchatchkes!
For those of you not living on the east coast...
Tchatchkes
(pronounced "chotch' skies")
are nothing more, nor less, than knick knacks!!!


Sooooooooooooo.....
In the informative photo above.....
There be lots of them.


As you guys know, if you've been following my blog.....
I am going on and on and on and on.....
about my living room in Florida.
Hence....
The picture above.
(Hence!!!!! I am soooo erudite!!!)

This is my bird lamp!!!
I knocked it over and broke it. I was really really bummed. So I reglued it. But it's never been the same. 
Soooooo I spent two years looking on ebay and found another one for backup. Now I can still be clumsy!!!!!
However.....I still haven't put out the unbroken one. I'm saving it for when I knock this one over again.
Not to point out the obvious, butttt.....
I've been collecting bird stuff for this house.
Bird lamps, 
bird figurines,
 bird prints,
 bird paintings,
 bird brains 
(no, wait....that can't be right!!).
Most of these objet d'art (I am soooo sophisticated!!)
I acquired through my special curator....
AKA: ebay.

My majolica parrot head!!!!
When I first got it, I wasn't really paying too much attention to detail, and I set the cover on backwards, so the feather stuck out in front. It looked like a duck. My friends made fun of me. I hate them all.


Having no pride I'll share with you how it looked.....

OH BOY!!!!

Another parrot. This big guy is made by Royal Copley.

according to Kovels

Royal Copley china was made by the Spaulding China Company of Sebring, Ohio, from 1939 to 1960. The figural planters and the small figurines, especially those with Art Deco designs, are of great collector interest. The planters and figurines are famous for picturing human and animal faces. 

Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah.....

I've noticed that I seem to be attracted to pottery from around the 1940's. 

Don't know why, I just am!!!!

I also seem to be attracted to pottery of the 1930's, 1920's. 1910's, turn of the century, and so, on and so on, and so on.......

How cool is this guy!!????

This is a piece of Chalkware.

Chalkware

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Chalkware was figurines either made of sculpted gypsum or cast

 from plaster moulds and painted with watercolors;^[1] most typically

 those made in one of two periods: the first beginning in the late

18th century and ending by the beginning of the 20th century, the second

 being during the Great Depression. Those made during the first

period were more typically serious art; those during the second

period were more typically somewhat jocular. Early chalkware

 was often hollow and can be difficult to find unblemished.

Blah, Blah, Blah, Blah, Blah.....

Does this guy seem jocular to you???????

                                     This is a piece of majolica.                                        

                           The pattern is a Water Lily.

I need to end here, 'cuz blogger is acting up

And typing off the page. It is driving me

                                            NUTS!!!!!

                  I'll finish this on Sunday

                          (or Saturday, though probably not)

Betsy