which I pick up randomly at thrift stores, yard sales and occasionally a real antique shop if the price is within my 'pitcher' budget. I've collected these in the 1-1/2 years I've lived in the Twin Cities. However, safely packed away in storage is a box full of over 30 years of collecting. Someday they'll be rescued from bubble wrap and properly displayed.
After many years of no contact with my mother and father -- long story -- after we were reacquainted, when I showed my mom my burgeoning collection she, being who she was, ran out and bought me not only a pitcher but the accompanying sugar bowl, coffee pot, demitasse cups and saucers in a gold rimmed, porcelain flower pattern, made in Bavaria! Being of Bavarian extraction, she had a remarkable eye for beautiful porcelain combined with a champagne appetite on a beer salary. She was thoroughly convinced her love of beautiful things was her German-ness.
I have pewter, Irish pottery, English glass and cranberry glass pitchers from Massachusetts plus recycled gems from yard sales in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania and Chicago--just about everywhere I've lived. Gifted pitchers are the best because it means I'm well known by the giver. I've noticed too that I usually wind up selecting my favorite colors without fully intending to.
Most recently the porcelain pitcher with pink roses on the far right below was purchased at a garage sale from an older lady who was liquidating. She said it was her favorite and she'd given it many uses. I got it for a song.
Yup, when I turned it over, the bottom was marked. . . Bavaria.
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11 comments:
Oh am I jealous of you right now. I love, love, love, them all.
I love all that kind of stuff. what I need is a bigger house to put my treaures.
Another good choice and you have so many beautiful ones. I love the shape of cream pitchers. I keep paint brushes and pens and pencils in mine. My mother is from the Salzburg area of Austria.
What a very neat collection, I love the porcelain ones.
I could add a couple additions too from my own china - they've blue edgings of course.
These are lovely. You collect small jugs the way I collect dragons. Your collection serves a more useful purpose though.
What a wonderful collection you have. They beg to be displayed. I especially enjoy the floral designs. BJ
How lovely! I have a collection of jugs which I use every day. My favourite milk jug has a pair of feet as well as a matching sugar bowl. My favourite jug however is slightly larger and must be well over 50 years old. It was my nana's, she made the gravy & yorkshire pudding mixture in it. Sadly it was chipped in the dishwasher but I did glue it all together and still use it every day.
My late mother collected porcelain. I enjoyed it for the craftsmanship which is displayed in a beautiful piece. Yours is a lovely collection.
Those are very nice.. I colleced Hornsea pottery for a while, then glass, I have a friend that as a great selection of shaving mugs.. some are very old. It's a nice hobby to have and it can come in handy as an investment at times.
Oh you have such a cool and sweet collection! My mom has som porcelain cups too, it's lovely o hve them around.
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