It's also more interesting than the box. Maybe some bot will see the Chinese text already here and leave us alone?
I recognize some of the designs; they're fairly recent.
I expect it to say "stuff goes in here".
Bolted to a wall where his big, fierce doggie can't knock it over?
I don't do pottery, but have been called less polite forms of potty more than a few times. By my own mother, so I guess she'd know.
Thirded. We need something to work from. Usually with something like that I just clean off the dirt and let the buyer deal with it.
Ooooooh. Score. Souvenir of Jerusalem silk scarf! The Orthodox ladies locally would have been all over that!
And if you own one, you pray they show up and bid?
Oooh. We will be making use of you! Welcome! I'm mostly a jewelry person but also deal with odds and ends. No end too odd.
I think you're right. I got the two confused. But still, jade it ain't.
She's busy pushing up daisies these days, aka more weeds, so....
Queen Anne's lace is a weed here.:p:p:p
I think it gets called olivine too, and "new jade" if you're a beader. Sure looks like good old serpentine from here.
I'd be thinking preacher too or an academic. This is the sort of portrait old schools and churches here still have hanging on their walls. He's...
I was thinking the same thing, but I'm an engineer's daughter and not a 'furniture guy". Maybe they did it that way because rambunctious children...
or my house!
I used to wear them, when I wore a dress that needed one, but that was only to church if then.
Those things never had arch supports so I couldn't wear them even if they were my size.
The art gallery was in Chemnitz, Germany. The Fernsprecher number at the bottom is the gallery phone number. Beyond that, dunno.
Welcome Connie! Some of us know traditional antiques pretty well, but most don't have a clue about farm "junque".
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