Thanks for visiting our site!
Pottery Vintage
Checkout Ebay Auctions For The Cheapest Prices
 |
 HAND ETCHED NATIVE AMERICAN POTTERY SIGNED - ETCHED SIGNATURE VINTAGE PASTEL  US $12.99
|
 VTG. MEXICAN GENOVEVA SANDOVAL LRG.CASA GRANDES POTTERY BOWL- FISH DESIGN.*NICE* US $32.99
|
| Powered by phpBay Pro |
Here are some more information for Pottery Vintage:
If you own a vintage home then you know that how to best preserve and restore that home is a popular topic of conversation with other vintage homeowners. Strangely, every room gets taken into consideration in these restorations except the kitchen. There is one very specific reason for this. When one thinks of historic kitchens they are not the kind of kitchen you want to work in now. They are viewed as old, out of date, antiquated, and inefficient.
In a typical vintage age, pre-war kitchen the work areas are very plain. Everything in a kitchen had its own freestanding place. The refrigerator, stove, icebox, and table were all separate eras. If your kitchen it from the 50's to about the 70's this might be even more unappealing to you with the bright and bold patterns that seem to match nothing else in the room. This definitely explains the reluctance that people have to not preserve the kitchen in their vintage home and recapture its original look.
When a homeowner thinks of recapturing a kitchens appeal, they usually do not mean the gaudy, inefficient kitchens of the past. Instead what they are trying to recreate is the warm and welcoming feeling of a home filled with the smell of a grandparent's cooking. This is something that can easily be accomplished in your kitchen restoration project. The demand for period kitchen appliances is on the rise, making it so much easier to find what you want. You can also take advantage of architectural salvage businesses that are typically just a phone call away. There are a multitude of resources if you are looking for antique pieces for your kitchen.
The one piece in any kitchen that most helps to determine the look and feel of the room is the cabinets. If you are looking for a more historic look for your kitchen restoration then most designers will caution you to not put in modern built in cabinets. You can find plenty of antique cabinets available in wood or metal from an architectural salvage company. These will do very well with other freestanding pieces. Keep in mind that wood cabinets can warp, so be sure that you check them before buying, and be sure to re-lacquer metal cabinets to prevent rust.
If you wish to have stone counter tops, then you can find some stone that gives a very old-fashioned feel and look. Vermont soapstone is a good choice. Just keep in mind that to achieve the antique look you should have the stone polished to a soft finish, not a high polish finish.
Designers normally recommend hardwoods for antique or restoration flooring. Linoleum is also a popular choice since it is usually cheaper. One can find large quantities of unused linoleum at some specialty stores. For the ceilings, the most dramatic look is a pressed metal that is left to look natural. Other good choices are Anaglypta paper or light cream-colored wallpaper. Both of these options are much cheaper than pressed metal with a similar look.
To find authentically antique looking stoves and refrigerators one only needs to look to the 80's. This is when they refurbished all the old stoves and so are easy to find. Finally you need some vintage hardware. If is advised that you look for something like satin nickel or antique brass.
Install hardwood flooring for the kitchen and check out unique kitchen flooring options
Antique Lamps With A Pearly Lustre
Pottery is a survivor! If there is one thing that is found on an archeological dig, its pottery. While wood, fabric and other materials having long since gone, maybe not a complete vessel, perhaps just pottery shards, but usually enough for an accurate dating to be made. These surviving specimens are very often pre-historic, clearly demonstrating early mankind’s use of clay and water!
There are many types of pottery and porcelains with histories long forgotten and it is one such as this that we look at here...
Lustre wares, or lustre pottery is one of the earliest decorative ceramic forms known and is recognised as originating from the Middle East. Lustreware first appeared in Baghdad and Samarra in about the ninth century AD. At this time, Baghdad was the world’s largest city and centre of the great Abbasid Arab Empire. Baghdad was a seat of learning with many universities where medicine, mathematics, astrology and science were taught.
The arts flourished with the ruling Caliphs who were great admirers and collectors of Chinese Tang dynasty porcelain. The porcelain was imported from China via the trading caravans travelling the long Silk Road.
It is always difficult to establish the accuracy of information from the 9th and 10th centuries, but there are persistent stories that tell of potters being abducted from Chinese ceramic centres and taken to Baghdad. These “pottery prisoners” were set to work with the expectation of porcelain being produced.
Without the very specific clays and kaolin for the production of porcelain available, the unfortunate Chinese potters had to improvise with available clays and eventually developed white glazes in an attempt to imitate the look of porcelain.
Nobody really knows, whether by accident or by experimentation, but the Chinese potters applied glassmaking techniques, techniques so ancient that their origins stretch back to the Egypt of the Pharaohs.
It would be more than interesting to know, just how and why these ninth century Chinese potters, so far from home, chose to decorate their Baghdad pots with metallic pigments, however they did so and as a result, lustre pottery was born!
Lustre ware produced an almost instant reaction with its golden iridescent glaze. At first it was considered alchemy, because the process involves using a lead-based glaze to create a golden shine on a pot, but without gold in it!
The essence of lustre, is of course found in the over glaze, the glazes containing lead, copper, silver, or even gold. When fired, the powder-like, metallic pigments produced the most brilliant iridescence ever seen on a ceramic body. Copper resulted in a brilliant red, silver may result in a glaze of bright silver lustre, or sometimes golden. The range of lustre colours is extensive, including pink, purple, canary yellow and moonlight lustre to name only a few from this incredible palette.
The result was completely indiscriminate, relying completely on the firing conditions of the kiln with the result being unpredictable.
On a technical note, lustre wares require three firings: - the first to fire, or harden the clay, the second to fire, or fix the plain glaze and finally, the third firing. It is this third time in the kiln that produces the lustre result.
The pottery shape would have been decorated, in accordance with Islamic culture, with a pattern, such as flowers and foliage, or a geometric or stylized decoration. The decoration now painted on with the chosen design, containing the suspended metallic compound.
This third, important firing is the lowest temperature of the three firings. It is at this critical period, that the kiln is “starved of oxygen”, with the metallic compound chemically “reduced” to the suspended base metal. The results were and are still not always as expected!
Lustre ware has a significant failure rate with only the most brilliant examples being kept. It is not usual, for even two examples from a firing to look exactly the same - such is the unpredictability of the result.
From Baghdad the technique spread to Syria and Egypt where the process became more refined, with examples from the 12th century still admired for their beauty. With the Arab influence in southern Spain, lustre ware was adopted as a Spanish ceramic art, as it was in 15th century Italy.
Lustre ware was not re discovered in England until the early 19th century when it was popularised by Spode and Wedgwood with many other more widely recognised names, such as Sunderland lustre and Wedgwood’s famous 20th. century Fairy Land lustre.
The lustre lamps illustrated, are examples made during the first half of the 20th century and were produced by Thomas of Bavaria around the period1920 -1930.
The history of the company begins in 1898 with the opening of the first porcelain factory in the Bavarian town of Marktredwitz and known as the "Porzellanfabrik Jaeger -Thomas & Co". Thomas had, what would be called today, “management problems”. He and Jaeger were having constant disputes, often ending with shouting and heated arguments. So in 1903, Thomas decided to establish his own factory.
For some months prior to leaving, he was having secret talks with a new prospective partner; Ens. Thomas took things slowly, not wishing to repeat his Jaeger history. Thomas was delighted as Ens was not interested in the running of the business, or in artistic direction, but wished only to be an investor which resulted in the birth of the "Porzellanfabrik Thomas & Ens" 1903.
The new partnership was an immediate success and Thomas had all the freedom of artistic expression he could wish for. Thomas was so successful that he soon caught the eye of the much bigger company of Rosenthal.
By 1908, Ens decided to look elsewhere for investment and informed Thomas that he was withdrawing his interest. This is just what Rosenthal had been waiting for and quickly made a move, becoming a major shareholder in 1908. This now left Thomas as an independent subsidiary of Rosenthal until 1960. The company continued to hold the registered rights and trademarks of Thomas until 2004 when the trademark was let go.
These lamps can be seen on The Antique & Vintage Table Lamp Co’s web site.
The Antique & Vintage Table Lamp Co specialise in antique lamps with an exclusive on-line range of over 100 unique lamps. Lamps are shipped ready wired for the US, the UK and Australia.
For further information you are invited to visit their web site at -:
http://www.antiquelampshop.com
© The Antique & Vintage Table Lamp Co 2010
About the Author
Maurice Robertson, principal of The Antique and Vintage Table Lamp Co, has had a lifetime’s association with antique porcelain and pottery, with his commercial experience spanning a period of over 45 years,including valuer to the Australian Government’s Incentive to the Arts Scheme. His long experience with antique ceramics and glass also includes dealing with leading museums and numerous international private collections. He has extended his ceramics expertise into the quality table lamps seen on the company’s site and is well known to local and international interior designers who have included many of his table lamps in their projects. He has also supplied items of national interest to the official Sydney residence of the Australian Prime Minister.
Quilt! Help!?
About a year ago, I was leafing through a Pottery Barn Magazine. I saw a beautiful quilt, but, since I had just remodeled my bedroom, I dismissed it as a beautiful, but unnecessary item. Well, I am redesigning my bedroom again, and would like to use that quilt. The problem is, it is discontinued, and I cannot remember it's name. Its an island themed quilt, (not Pottery Barn kids) its like vintage hawaii themed, with palm trees, hawaii flowers. its colors include reds, pea greens, aquamarines, camel/tans, and vanilla like colors. It's stitched with squares, but inside the sqaures are stitched flap-like things. Please!!! Somebody help....if anyone knows at least the name of the quilt that would be great!
http://www.potterybarn.com/cat/index.cfm?sid=PBE06D5AXDI7INPBUS359DMD8D541ECZ200604291919&refurl=&ftest=1&cmreferrer=http%253A%252F%252Fshopping%252Eyahoo%252Ecom%252Fsearch%252F%253B%255Fylc%253DX3oDMTJvb282YnYxBF9TAzk2MDc5MjYwBGFkZ3JwAzI4NzU0MzYwMwRldnQDODg
I hope this helps try copying this link and placing it in your address bar at the top of your screen. I went to advanced google search and typed in pottery barn quilts
A Taste of Edmonds not to be missed
A Taste of Edmonds is back, Aug. 13-15, for its 28th year as one of the top festivals in the region. This year, the festival promises to be even bigger and better, keeping its reputation as festival visitors return year after year....
Thanks for visiting!
