Figures and Flowers At some point in the life-history of rubbish it changes from trash to treasure. It passes through some lens and becomes a valued artefact. Is it scarcity? A distance from memory? Perhaps it is the reassurance that two hundred years from now future humans will look at our detritus with something other than the disgust with which we view it now. When all the plastic landfills have been mined for their hydrocarbon chains, someone will hold one half of an IKEA saucer and admire its broken Scandinavian patterns. That is what these objects are. They are in the river because someone didnt want them enough. But being found, they have been brought back to life. I want them. More than anything I love having these around. I love to look at them. To admire their brush strokes, their depictions, their colours. I love the richness of their tones. I like to hold them, to feel their weight or their weightlessness in my hand, their sheens and lustres. Read more Raspberry Prunt I once used a goblet with things like this attached to try to get contemporary art buyers interested in old European furniture. This is a raspberry prunt. Eight or ten of these would have been set onto the stem of a seventeenthcentury wine glass, or roemer. They were beautiful ornaments, but they also helped the greasy-fingered wealthy keep hold of their wine glasses before the adoption of forks at the dinner table. It is without doubt my favourite-ever find. It is jewel-like without being as gaudy as a gem; it is tactile beyond belief. To rub a thumb across its dimples is like caressing rosary beads or tasbih. It is talismanic. If its out of its cabinet I cant take my hands off it. Full of contradictions. Incredible that so fragile a piece of glass should survive four hundred years of tides without being worn to a dull pebble. Read more Clay Tobacco Pipes After 1840 | The horses hoof. Where it all started for me. After 1840 | The Royal Antediluvian Order of Buffaloes, made to be ceremonially broken. 18501910 | The foliage holds the bowl with an incredible delicacy. 18501910 | Extremely sparse decoration, with almost invisible eyelets. Read more
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🗸 Author(s): Ted Sandling
🗸 Title: London in Fragments: A Mudlark's Treasures
🗸 Rating : 4.6 from 5 stars (409 reviews)
🗸 Languange: English
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