My First Estate Sale – Part 2

I took this photo when I went back to the estate sale in the afternoon. In the morning the tables were filled with larger platters and those blue and white fish bowls were on the floor. I picked out a stack of the small ones for my daughter.

I also found a small blue and white Dansk pitcher. It reminded me of my “fish bowl” that I fill with grapes every afternoon.

It turns out that they are both from the Dansk Arabesque line that was designed by Niels Refsgaard.

I thought the pitcher went well with the small tray in the back that was in my Christmas stocking this year. I understood why when my research into Niels Refsgaard revealed that he had also designed this pitcher.

Although now I’m wondering if I’m displaying the little tray upside down!

My sister bought three little egg cups like the ones our parents used for eating soft boiled eggs. All three of them were different and as I said to my sister channeling Harry Smith, “One of them clearly belongs in my collection”. So she gave it to me.

Google research reveals that the Cruz family lives and works in the Spanish province of Toledo which is in central Spain. The men make the pottery and the women paint it in the puntilla style incorporating the traditional “Castillo la Mancha” patterns “with their own one of a kind designs and colors.” No wonder I thought the egg cup belonged in my collection – the pattern is very similar to the pitcher and plate my daughter purchased in Segovia when she went to central Spain during college.

So both the sideboard and the china cabinet benefited from my first estate sale experience!