Ok, “it is happening again”: just before our Providence trip we passed by one our favourite antique shops (on Gwydir St) and spotted these two Art Nouveau beauties in the window display. We were lucky enough to fetch them next day, and then there was a bit of a saga of ordering the oak frame for them: as it had to be a specific one, adjusted for tiles, ours was customised, but not entirely (the colour was completely off), so it took us another few days to find a wood stain of the right cool-toned “ashy” shade, and so we did.
Long story short: we finally assembled it and put it next to the Lovecraftian map of Providence, and you simply cannot find a better place.
So, the one on the left is a majolica floral tile by the John H Barratt Company of Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, circa 1907, and on the right is a Lea & Bolton gem (they are quite rare, as the company since its registration in 1906 patented only 16 designs) made around 1910.
Love them both dearly.
No comments :
Post a Comment