My stall at the last vintage market

Here are a couple of photos of my stall at the North London Vintage Market earlier this month. It was great to be back and it was a really busy day.

Vintage market

After what seems like ages I will be returning to the North London Vintage Market for their next sale on 1 June.

I haven't sorted out exactly what I will be taking yet, but these are a few bits and pieces of ceramics that might be appearing.

 

 

 

 

Stavangerflint pottery

I have recently bought a couple of small pieces of Stavangerflint and I realised that I have a mini collection of these small pots and dishes.

I bought the spoon rest for 20p after finding it at the bottom of a box of old saucepans at a car boot sale.

Here are some photos..

Stavangerflint 'Opaque' ceramics

When hunting through one of my boxes of ceramics I found a small Stavangerflint pin dish. It is from the 'Opaque' range - a series of ceramic vases, plates and other items in a creamy white matt glaze with simple floral and figurative designs in blues and greys designed by Inger Waage. I think they date from the 1950s or early 1960s. This is my favourite range Stavangerflint range and I have a few other pieces. Here are some pictures...

Holiday shopping

We have just got back from a much needed pre-bank holiday mini-break to Rye in East Sussex. Both Rye and neighbouring Hastings have loads of great vintage/antique/junk shops and I think we pretty much scoured all of them during our three days in the area.

I unpacked all the finds this morning once we were back home:

I was particularly pleased to find a scarce Hornsea pottery 'Aphrodite' vase designed by John Clappison, here's a close up photo:

Scandinavian ceramics

Despite very wet conditions I had a pretty successful visit to the Malvern flea fair over Easter and bought these three nice pieces of Scandinavian pottery.

Rorstrand 'Eden' butter dish, designed by Marianne Westman

Stavangerflint cup designed by Kari Nyquist

Stavangerflint trinket box designed by Inger Waage

Norwegian ceramics

I have been doing some buying on ebay as well as selling recently and am very pleased with two new additions to my collection of Scandinavian ceramics.

The first is this unusual fish trivet or wall hanging. I love the design of fishes and stars and the blue and white together is really bright and fresh looking..

It was made by Porsgrund of Norway and is the only piece of Porsgrund in my collection.

 

This is the other item, it's a nice Stavangerflint casserole dish with a design of fishes and lemons by Inger Waage.