This Post is repeated from Nov 22 2016
Happy Thanksgiving to all of my family and friends who read here. This is a time to be thankful for so many blessings. Among these I am thankful my pretty kitchen and think of how Jackie worked hard to leave me in a safe sweet home when he knew he could not stay here long. Of course we built our red cape with the hope it would be our forever home on this earth, but that was not to be. So see what a pretty kitchen we made in this modern little garden home where I am grateful to be.
We used his pottery collection as a theme in the kitchen and all surfaces were planned to compliment the redware and stoneware.
Onions are gathered in a fine Redware bowl we believe was made in Maine. These onions are in two of my paintings. The counter top makes a strong statement and was not a choice for the faint of heart!
See the rich and varied glaze on this early Boston marked piece.
This very sought after stoneware is the work of Frederick Carpenter, and Jack collected at least twenty of these pots. The earlier is marked Boston then the pottery moved across the river and was afterwards marked Charlestown.
Now I have six of my recent paintings hanging in here, and have just finished making a peach cobbler pie for our family Thanksgiving dinner. All four generations will be there at Daughter Beth's and it will be one to please Norman Rockwell.
Friend Dixie went to considerable trouble to secure and travel to pick up and then mail the little ship model from an auction in Maine last month. It is a one off home made model of an actual working fishing vessel I believe. See that tiny wooden ball on top of the center mast? I lost that in a huge box of peanut packing and it took two hours and three passes through it all to recover the little bit of wood!
Langhorn's Tavern in Virginia was owned by my ancestor Maurice Langhorn.
Footnote: I have had email from a new reader here, a person very knowledgeable about early American pottery. He has a great blog on the subject: http://www.earlyamericanceramics.com/
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