Comments on: Three Antiques Market Treasures https://spitalfieldslife.com/2022/04/02/three-antiques-market-finds/ In the midst of life I woke to find myself living in an old house beside Brick Lane in the East End of London Sun, 03 Apr 2022 09:08:35 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Susan martin https://spitalfieldslife.com/2022/04/02/three-antiques-market-finds/#comment-1455288 Sun, 03 Apr 2022 09:08:35 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=191153#comment-1455288 Wonderful writing as usual. Thank you.

]]> By: Marcia Howard https://spitalfieldslife.com/2022/04/02/three-antiques-market-finds/#comment-1455283 Sun, 03 Apr 2022 07:42:19 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=191153#comment-1455283 Wonderful writing and wonderful connections with us all over the centuries. In the town where I now live, there are two buildings still displaying their ‘fire’ signs – different from each other’s. I often look up at them to pay homage

]]> By: Genevieve Letellier https://spitalfieldslife.com/2022/04/02/three-antiques-market-finds/#comment-1455281 Sun, 03 Apr 2022 07:23:11 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=191153#comment-1455281 Each time we come over to London we visit Spitalfieds market and on Thursday this very plaque caught our attention. On listening to the dealer’s explanation of what it was, I remember thinking it was the sort of thing you would like. I’m glad you’ve proved me right!

]]> By: mlaiuppa https://spitalfieldslife.com/2022/04/02/three-antiques-market-finds/#comment-1455257 Sun, 03 Apr 2022 00:05:06 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=191153#comment-1455257 How lucky you are and congratulations on finally taking the plunge and buying something. You have made great purchases.

I have a collection of Sun tiles and first stones. Some are on a fence I can view from my dining room window. Some will be hanging all along the south side of my garage where I can enjoy the from my garden. I don’t just have suns but also a few moons, compass and various animals.

I have several pie birds. That may or may not be a Clarice Cliff (more research would need to be done) but it is a classic pie bird. I have at least one similar to it. I also have a Dolphin and something else I can’t remember. I don’t usually use them, I just cut slits in the top crust. I do applaud your dedication to baking a pie every Wednesday. I used to cook a lot and got out of the habit my final decade of working. I was just too tired at the end of the day. But I am retired now and I need to start making the time. I am slowly trying to go back to my really old habits; reading before bed, gardening, cooking/baking and needlework (sewing, crochet, knit, needlepoint, etc)

If it is a Clarice Cliff it should have a registration number. 809138

]]> By: Lynne Perrella https://spitalfieldslife.com/2022/04/02/three-antiques-market-finds/#comment-1455216 Sat, 02 Apr 2022 12:35:06 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=191153#comment-1455216 Bear with me as I pile on. About sun motifs, collecting, and more………… It was 1970, our very first overseas trip. To Spain. We were “unseasoned” as travelers, fully engulfed in the thrill of the journey. On our first day of exploration, we went to the Spanish “Rastro” or outdoor flea market in Madrid. Imagine the possibilities? Of all the things that we could have purchased that day — we ended up with a massive honkin’ cement face-within-a-sun plaque. Heavy, baby, heavy. Probably a fragment from a fountain. Anyhow — we had to have it. When reality set in (on our way back to the hotel) we realized “Hey, wait, this thing weighs a ton”. We had three more stops on our trip; Seville, Barcelona, Torremolinos; miles to go before we sleep. I think my husband ended up with one arm longer than the other, from lugging the thing around. But, it hangs outside on our southern-facing deck, we admire it regularly, and we’ve never regretted acquiring that beneficent sun.

If you enjoy art research (who doesn’t??), look online at all the ways that artists have depicted the sun over the years. Calder! Picasso! Dali! Alexander Girard! Warhol!

And now……..we can all enjoy the “protection” provided by the Spitalfields plaque.
It’s a pip!

]]> By: Sue https://spitalfieldslife.com/2022/04/02/three-antiques-market-finds/#comment-1455215 Sat, 02 Apr 2022 12:27:47 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=191153#comment-1455215 Three items that I too would be glad to own. I have a terracotta sun head that I made in pottery class many years ago that I take from house to house.

]]> By: Homer Sykes https://spitalfieldslife.com/2022/04/02/three-antiques-market-finds/#comment-1455200 Sat, 02 Apr 2022 08:14:58 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=191153#comment-1455200 Absolutely wonderful, I have one almost exactly the same. Mine is Cornish granite according to the British Museum and I love it, to think it 5,000 years plus. It will last for ever and I hope always treasured.

]]> By: Jane Berry https://spitalfieldslife.com/2022/04/02/three-antiques-market-finds/#comment-1455196 Sat, 02 Apr 2022 07:37:28 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=191153#comment-1455196 Three envy inspiring acquisitions but I do have a lead casting of that fire sign in my garden.

]]> By: Maureen https://spitalfieldslife.com/2022/04/02/three-antiques-market-finds/#comment-1455194 Sat, 02 Apr 2022 07:21:34 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=191153#comment-1455194 How I love reading your fabulous postings. They really touch my soul. Thank you.

]]> By: Bailey Jones https://spitalfieldslife.com/2022/04/02/three-antiques-market-finds/#comment-1455190 Sat, 02 Apr 2022 07:00:10 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=191153#comment-1455190 Objects from the past create imaginative historical connections and add so much to the value of our lives both culturally and aesthetically. You express this beautifully here. How great to have an orginal sun fire insurance plaque. We have had several modern sun plaques over the years, which we have hung on the back wall to decorate our back garden having no idea we were also protecting ourselves from the evil eye!
The axe head is such a wonderful blue and so smooth. A real treasure.

It’s a very long time since I baked a pie, let’s hope you inspire me.

Wishing you and all your readers a good weekend

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