A little peek at my collection....by Carolyn H

After blogging about a carved Ostrich egg, a blue rooster, what I did in the holidays and restoring ceramics I guess it's time to share some photo's of my collection?

Above: a large colourful platter decorated in the broderie style and featuring a Breton sitting on a rock.

1930's Quimper including a C. Maillard jug and two Breton gentlemen, by Andre Galland, one atop a barrel the other a jug.

Quimper and antique pewter items complement each other.

A beautiful Swan with cygnet egg cups, all six!

A Quillivic Celtic style cross and a pair of holy water fonts,(bénitier).

A pair of egg cup holding swans flank a large swan basket and are surrounded by smaller swan items on the hutch.

White Wednesday........................by Gay S.

I'm linking to White Wednesday @ Kathleen's wonderful blog Faded Charm, please do visit Kathleen and all the other participants joining in this lovely meme today.

I have heard of one collector of Quimper who only has white or blanc faience, but I have just this one piece.
The white pieces are still made today – look here for a selection.
The plain white enamel certainly lets one really appreciate the lines of the form.

The piece above is ‘Jeune Bigouden’ by Rene Quillivic. I like it because of feeling of movement, it seems he might step off of my shelf any moment! He has a certain ‘joie de vivre’ which some of Quillivics other figurals lack, often the stance or expression is somber or the head is tilted down……never the less I would like either ‘Jeune fille de Plouhinec’ or ‘Jeune Fille au doight dans la bouche’ to accompany him – for now he has to make do with a black cat (more about that later)
Rene Quillivic was born in Plouhinec, Brittany in 1879. He first worked as a fisherman but after a bad storm in which he came close to losing his life he took up woodworking. Inspired by the fine carving he was doing on furniture he went on to study art and won a scholarship to the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris.
As well as producing faience figurals he also designed decors for plates which are quite distinctive and often inspired by tradition Breton motifs. Quillivic is also revered as a sculptor and produced several War Memorials in Finistere. He died in Paris during 1969
The black cat is by a contemporary artist Odile Landry who has also produced a cat sleeping

In the back ground are some older paintings on parchment which I have had re framed…..they are nicely done but some of those ladies look quite fierce!