Showing posts with label claude conover pottery. Show all posts
Showing posts with label claude conover pottery. Show all posts

Friday, September 27, 2013

WHAT???

This week has been one of reinforcing in my senses the toxic qualities of perfection......maybe not toxic, but definitely boring and an energy downer.
I tend to want to make everything perfect, seeking balance--perhaps it is the fear that some one or many some ones will not like me or approve of what I buy and sell. Maybe it's my love of neoclassical furniture--always balanced. But these are not times of balance--these are times of tumult and it's resultant growth reaching towards balance.
So I'm looking for that odd item; that slightly dissonant object that makes everything come together. Stretching, adapting, moving. Isn't that our purpose? To seek growth, as painful as it might be. So this week I decided to examine shapes and form--fullness of life, perhaps...
The only piece that I found is this brass vessel--I really don't know anything about it except that it reminds me of Claude Conover's ceramic vessels (if only I had know about his work 2 years ago...). The form is pregnant and the patina deep and wonderful. 

 
 
Sending wishes for a wonderful week-end. (Can't believe that I'm seeing Christmas Decorations---not quite life in the moment)

Mary & Jones (and Cole)


Monday, April 22, 2013

LITTLE 17TH CENTURY TABLE


I love the patina on this little old table, but most of all I love the original forged iron hardware. Roberto will coming next week to spruce her up. Some crazy guy put a light coat of what I think is shoe polish on a couple of the surfaces, but I think that the original finish is under this slightly gooey stuff. Roberto will clean the surface and then apply several coats of hard paste wax and then this little guy will shine. The table is rustic and has acquired a deep soul over its 330 years of existence. A couple more photos......





I love the simplicity of this piece. Just wish I had a piece of Conover pottery to place on the top.

Be well.
Mary and Jones (& Cole)