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For the Sake of Distant Days; An Ode to Sheshkalla
Mesopotamia, 5,000-3,000bce saw imagery impressed on clay stamp seals evolve into cuneiform writing on clay tablets. Alkaline glazes allowed brilliantly decorated bricks to adorn palaces and city walls. One historian even suggests (maybe a stretch) the idea for the wheel came from observing the potters wheel spin perfectly round pots. Somebody needed to know how […]
A Porcelain Putti Pitcher
Slip cast porcelain pitcher with putti figurines in high relief. Late 19th or early 20th century? English or American? Does it matter? At first glance, this pitcher may seem like an over-wrought left-over from another time. Maybe there isn’t much to recommend it today, even for the asking price of one dollar at some random […]