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GIFT SHOP - ARTIST: Stephen Lally. TITLE: Rainbow Mug. MEDIA: earthenware. PRICE: $25 each. DIMENSIONS: 3x3x3.5.
Alcove Gift Shop.
Dates: May 2 – June 29, 2025.
Curators: Stephen Lally and Rita Schooley.
Location: Del Ray Artisans, 2704 Mount Vernon Avenue, Alexandria VA 22301.
Gallery hours: Thursday 12-6pm, Friday 12-9pm, Saturday 12-6pm, and Sunday 12-6pm (closed on May 25, 2025).
More information at delrayartisans.org/exhibits/
GIFT SHOP - ARTIST: Stephen Lally. TITLE: Rainbow Sipper. MEDIA: earthenware. PRICE: $20 each. DIMENSIONS: 3x3x3.
Alcove Gift Shop.
Dates: May 2 – June 29, 2025.
Curators: Stephen Lally and Rita Schooley.
Location: Del Ray Artisans, 2704 Mount Vernon Avenue, Alexandria VA 22301.
Gallery hours: Thursday 12-6pm, Friday 12-9pm, Saturday 12-6pm, and Sunday 12-6pm (closed on May 25, 2025).
More information at delrayartisans.org/exhibits/
Lokapala figure, AD 600-800
probably Shaanxi
pigmented and gilded earthenware
Tang dynasty
Figures such as this guard Buddhist temples and tombs in China. Temple guardians were generally made of stone or wood, whereas funerary figures, such as this, were earthenware. This pair were originally vibrantly coloured and probably held a staff in their hands. They are almost mirror images, apart from their headdresses. One wears a helmet, the other wears his hair tied up into a knot.
[British Museum]
Taken in British Museum
Tankard, 1572
Germany
Glass and earthenware
Reichsadler Humpen, or tankard; glass; metal base-ring; enamelled with imperial eagle with crucifix on breast; arms of Holy Roman Empire and all its members on wings; handle attached by thread circuit; inscription.
[British Museum]
Taken in British Museum
Lokapala figure, AD 600-800
probably Shaanxi
pigmented and gilded earthenware
Tang dynasty
Figures such as this guard Buddhist temples and tombs in China. Temple guardians were generally made of stone or wood, whereas funerary figures, such as this, were earthenware. This pair were originally vibrantly coloured and probably held a staff in their hands. They are almost mirror images, apart from their headdresses. One wears a helmet, the other wears his hair tied up into a knot.
[British Museum]
Taken in British Museum
Tankard, 1572
Germany
Glass and earthenware
Reichsadler Humpen, or tankard; glass; metal base-ring; enamelled with imperial eagle with crucifix on breast; arms of Holy Roman Empire and all its members on wings; handle attached by thread circuit; inscription.
[British Museum]
Taken in British Museum
Lokapala figure, AD 600-800
probably Shaanxi
pigmented and gilded earthenware
Tang dynasty
Figures such as this guard Buddhist temples and tombs in China. Temple guardians were generally made of stone or wood, whereas funerary figures, such as this, were earthenware. This pair were originally vibrantly coloured and probably held a staff in their hands. They are almost mirror images, apart from their headdresses. One wears a helmet, the other wears his hair tied up into a knot.
[British Museum]
Taken in British Museum
This sculptural clip-cast mug is by Paul Eshelman, whose studio is located in Elizabeth, Illinois. It is hand-signed "Eshelman 2013" and was found in St. Paul, Minnesota.
I do have a liking for this kind of pre-war and post-war bathroom sanitary ware, particularly in these pastel colours. These fine survivors are on display in a shop setting on the 1930s street at Black Country Museum.
Friday 18th April 2025
A saucer by Ridgways Potteries from the Homemaker range. The cup for this would have been plain black with white inside.
These were sold as individual pieces in Woolworths from 1957 to 1970, allowing a set to be accumulated as funds allowed.
I have a couple of Homemaker plates with a different backstamp, and some different illustrations: www.flickr.com/photos/adrianz-toyz/53968128933
More information on Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homemaker_tableware
Stephens Ink ('Writing Fluid') no. 35 scarlet, ceramic bottle, height approx 23cm.
Steaming clams a la portuguesa served in a rustic terracotta casserole.
Zsolnay Porcelánmanufaktúra Zrt
Earthenware decorated with metallic and silver glaze
Taken in Musée d'Orsay
The Musée d'Orsay, in the Beaux-Arts former railway station of Gare d'Orsay, built 1898-1900 for the Chemin de Fer de Paris à Orléans, designed by Lucien Magne, Émile Bénard and Victor Laloux. The train services were electric, which defined the building structure and allowed a canopy rather than train shed. Until 1939 the station was the terminus for trains from the southwest, until the trains became too large for the station to support, with suburban services continuing for a bit longer. After being railway station, the building was used as a mailing centre during the war and then to process prisoners of war (returning or departing). Post-war, the building was used for various films and theatre, before coming under threat of demolition in the 1970s, and then proposed as a museum - a competition was held in 1978 and the contract awarded to ACT Architecture (Pierre Colboc, Renaud Bardon and Jean-Paul Philippon) and Gae Aulenti to design the interior. The museum was formally opened in December 1986 by President François Mitterrand.
Zsolnay Porcelánmanufaktúra Zrt
Earthenware decorated with metallic and silver glaze
Taken in Musée d'Orsay
The Musée d'Orsay, in the Beaux-Arts former railway station of Gare d'Orsay, built 1898-1900 for the Chemin de Fer de Paris à Orléans, designed by Lucien Magne, Émile Bénard and Victor Laloux. The train services were electric, which defined the building structure and allowed a canopy rather than train shed. Until 1939 the station was the terminus for trains from the southwest, until the trains became too large for the station to support, with suburban services continuing for a bit longer. After being railway station, the building was used as a mailing centre during the war and then to process prisoners of war (returning or departing). Post-war, the building was used for various films and theatre, before coming under threat of demolition in the 1970s, and then proposed as a museum - a competition was held in 1978 and the contract awarded to ACT Architecture (Pierre Colboc, Renaud Bardon and Jean-Paul Philippon) and Gae Aulenti to design the interior. The museum was formally opened in December 1986 by President François Mitterrand.
Zsolnay Porcelánmanufaktúra Zrt
Earthenware decorated with metallic glaze
Taken in Musée d'Orsay
The Musée d'Orsay, in the Beaux-Arts former railway station of Gare d'Orsay, built 1898-1900 for the Chemin de Fer de Paris à Orléans, designed by Lucien Magne, Émile Bénard and Victor Laloux. The train services were electric, which defined the building structure and allowed a canopy rather than train shed. Until 1939 the station was the terminus for trains from the southwest, until the trains became too large for the station to support, with suburban services continuing for a bit longer. After being railway station, the building was used as a mailing centre during the war and then to process prisoners of war (returning or departing). Post-war, the building was used for various films and theatre, before coming under threat of demolition in the 1970s, and then proposed as a museum - a competition was held in 1978 and the contract awarded to ACT Architecture (Pierre Colboc, Renaud Bardon and Jean-Paul Philippon) and Gae Aulenti to design the interior. The museum was formally opened in December 1986 by President François Mitterrand.
Zsolnay Porcelánmanufaktúra Zrt
Earthenware decorated with metallic and silver glaze
Taken in Musée d'Orsay
The Musée d'Orsay, in the Beaux-Arts former railway station of Gare d'Orsay, built 1898-1900 for the Chemin de Fer de Paris à Orléans, designed by Lucien Magne, Émile Bénard and Victor Laloux. The train services were electric, which defined the building structure and allowed a canopy rather than train shed. Until 1939 the station was the terminus for trains from the southwest, until the trains became too large for the station to support, with suburban services continuing for a bit longer. After being railway station, the building was used as a mailing centre during the war and then to process prisoners of war (returning or departing). Post-war, the building was used for various films and theatre, before coming under threat of demolition in the 1970s, and then proposed as a museum - a competition was held in 1978 and the contract awarded to ACT Architecture (Pierre Colboc, Renaud Bardon and Jean-Paul Philippon) and Gae Aulenti to design the interior. The museum was formally opened in December 1986 by President François Mitterrand.
Zsolnay Porcelánmanufaktúra Zrt
Earthenware decorated with metallic glaze
Taken in Musée d'Orsay
The Musée d'Orsay, in the Beaux-Arts former railway station of Gare d'Orsay, built 1898-1900 for the Chemin de Fer de Paris à Orléans, designed by Lucien Magne, Émile Bénard and Victor Laloux. The train services were electric, which defined the building structure and allowed a canopy rather than train shed. Until 1939 the station was the terminus for trains from the southwest, until the trains became too large for the station to support, with suburban services continuing for a bit longer. After being railway station, the building was used as a mailing centre during the war and then to process prisoners of war (returning or departing). Post-war, the building was used for various films and theatre, before coming under threat of demolition in the 1970s, and then proposed as a museum - a competition was held in 1978 and the contract awarded to ACT Architecture (Pierre Colboc, Renaud Bardon and Jean-Paul Philippon) and Gae Aulenti to design the interior. The museum was formally opened in December 1986 by President François Mitterrand.
Vase au coucher de soleil, 1905
Zsolnay Porcelánmanufaktúra Zrt
Earthenware decorated with metallic glaze
Aiguiere, 1900
Zsolnay Porcelánmanufaktúra Zrt
Earthenware decorated with metallic and silver glaze
Taken in Musée d'Orsay
The Musée d'Orsay, in the Beaux-Arts former railway station of Gare d'Orsay, built 1898-1900 for the Chemin de Fer de Paris à Orléans, designed by Lucien Magne, Émile Bénard and Victor Laloux. The train services were electric, which defined the building structure and allowed a canopy rather than train shed. Until 1939 the station was the terminus for trains from the southwest, until the trains became too large for the station to support, with suburban services continuing for a bit longer. After being railway station, the building was used as a mailing centre during the war and then to process prisoners of war (returning or departing). Post-war, the building was used for various films and theatre, before coming under threat of demolition in the 1970s, and then proposed as a museum - a competition was held in 1978 and the contract awarded to ACT Architecture (Pierre Colboc, Renaud Bardon and Jean-Paul Philippon) and Gae Aulenti to design the interior. The museum was formally opened in December 1986 by President François Mitterrand.
Zsolnay Porcelánmanufaktúra Zrt
Earthenware decorated with metallic glaze
Taken in Musée d'Orsay
The Musée d'Orsay, in the Beaux-Arts former railway station of Gare d'Orsay, built 1898-1900 for the Chemin de Fer de Paris à Orléans, designed by Lucien Magne, Émile Bénard and Victor Laloux. The train services were electric, which defined the building structure and allowed a canopy rather than train shed. Until 1939 the station was the terminus for trains from the southwest, until the trains became too large for the station to support, with suburban services continuing for a bit longer. After being railway station, the building was used as a mailing centre during the war and then to process prisoners of war (returning or departing). Post-war, the building was used for various films and theatre, before coming under threat of demolition in the 1970s, and then proposed as a museum - a competition was held in 1978 and the contract awarded to ACT Architecture (Pierre Colboc, Renaud Bardon and Jean-Paul Philippon) and Gae Aulenti to design the interior. The museum was formally opened in December 1986 by President François Mitterrand.
