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Weekly Favorites: Antique French Enamelware Body Pitchers

French Enamelware comes in many shapes, colors and sizes. Pitchers like this were used for bathing before indoor plumbing was invented. A bowl and pitcher, like these, were a mainstay in each bedroom in a fine to middle class home, often on a special “wash stand” with a mirror. In more modest households, there was [...]

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Weekly Favorites: Summer French Country Wares

I love gilt, {no “u”!}, glamour, refined elegance just as much as anyone.  But then there is French. Country. Wares straight from the Brocante {fleamarket} or Campagne {country side}. A little worn, a little shabby, but charming never the less, and oh! so French.  We are unpacking crates and boxes and bags of all things [...]

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