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Title Name Value Votessort icon Post Brief Post date
Salem Aquaria.jpg Modlectic modlectic
4.916665
12

The Salem Free-Form teapot in the Aquaria pattern. Designed by Viktor Schreckengost.

 June 05, 2007
Marshall Studios mccormickstudio
4.75
12

Good dishes makes grocery store sushi taste better.

 October 11, 2007
Ernest Sohn Grouping Ernest Sohn peterwellsray
4.916665
12
November 09, 2011
Russel Wright Theme Informal jwr3060
5
11

This is my most recent find

September 06, 2010
Chalice nostalgiaholic
4.90909
11

Chalice Pottery.  beverage server and mugs

 December 02, 2011
Franciscan mod-mod-world
4.8
10

After many years of looking, I finally came across the Del Mar covered casserole and it inspired a photoshoot today. Snazzy, ain't it!?

 March 16, 2011
silver, sterling, 925, tea, tea pot, tea service, sugar bowl, milk jug Silver Tea Service midcenturydesigner
5
10

This sterling silver tea service was designed and made in 1978.

 May 14, 2011
Recent finds youngmoderns
5
9

I was quite amazed to discover this coffee pot in a local New York City thrift shop--usually I find nothing so nice here!  I believe that this shape was designed by Simon Slobodkin, the Mi

August 29, 2011
A selection of saffron Country-Time pieces, on a cloth designed by Tammis Keefe Country-Time mcm.indigo
5
9

The pieces shown here have the saffron glaze, mostly with the 'fruits' decoration.

October 11, 2011
Hall nostalgiaholic
4.88889
9

Hall China.  Tomorrow's Classic Hallcraft White.  Teapot, creamer, and sugar.

 November 08, 2011
Hall China Company modlectic
5
9

Hall China Company. Tomorrow's Classic. Satin Black. Teapot, sugar and creamer.

 November 10, 2011
Denwar Bantu Denwar mpratt
4.88889
9

Denwar Ceramics. Bantu. Benin Blue. Jug with Cover [small]. Thatch. Jug with Cover. Jo Dendel (shape). Ester Warner Dendel (glaze). 1947.

 November 26, 2011
Silver Sauce or Gravy Boat midcenturydesigner
5
9

This is another 'student' piece I made in 1977.

The body is raised in sterling silver and has a fabricated spout.

 November 26, 2011
Steubenville nostalgiaholic
5
9

Steubenville Pottery.  Normandie.  [Blue Stripes]

 March 16, 2012
Favorites & Recent Finds mccormickstudio
4.875
8

found on the floor in an antique mall

August 09, 2007
Eva Zeisel atomicscott
5
8

This has to be one of my favorite designs by Eva Zeisel. And you thought that there was no such thing as a modernist tippy cup! ;-)

January 13, 2008
Franciscan Contours ameba
5
8

A fun trio of Franciscan Contours.   I've never seen the two pieces on the left.  Anybody else?

 September 19, 2009
Salem mod-mod-world
5
8

I got this during my vacation... something I wasn't even sure existed, let alone find.

February 07, 2011
Red Wing nostalgiaholic
5
8

Red Wing.  cigarette box in gloss fleck yellow.

 March 28, 2011
Century House modlectic
5
8

"Family in the Yard" plate made at the Century House in Madison, Wisconsin by Jane S. Howell in 1952.

 June 13, 2011