Stories Collected While Living in France
1700s French Platter.
Broken long ago, story unknown.
Repaired evident. Keepsake.
Found at the brocante.
10:35 am late in the hunt.
15 Euros.
French Husband pulled the broken wired platter out of a pile, "Hey Corey don't you love this kind of broken?" he asked.
He is good. Real good. Who knew he would find my kind of diamond?
Latest find happy to stay at home with me.
Via Past Imperfect Andrew Baseman
Alright, where’s that other side of the plate? 😉
I’m with Merisi – I want to see the other side of the platter!
I always thought it would be interesting to see a tutorial/video of how this type of repair used to be done. Just imagine, the days before the Dremel or strong glues and being able to put a “staple” in to repair a piece of pottery. The site you mentioned is fascinating.
But what does the FRONT look like? Or don’t you even care about that, as you’ll always display this one mending side out?
Clearly you’re going to get still more responses like this, longing to see the other side. You tease you.
You took the words right out of my mouth, lol.
Beautiful! I first learned about this from your blog- think you posted a repaired teapot – or was it a tea cup? Fascinating and a wonderful glimpse into a time when possessions were valued, used and repaired . I imagine the other side is lovely, but the repair work is what speaks to me.
I love it. I’ve heard of “staple” repairs to pottery, but never seen one. It doesn’t matter whats on the front, I believe you’ve found a rare treasure.
Obviously, someone really loved this…
Thanks for the link to Past Imperfect, I’ve bookmarked it. His collection is so interesting.
The front merci….
love platters too….I often forget to pull mine out, but then again, feeding one doesn’t call for it much……I suppose…….I am so chubby right now…..thought I would throw that out there, I was not born with a stick body and high metabolism darn it…they say “curves” are good, I say, I need to drop this weight, ha ha ha~~ xo
I am pretty certain there’s nothing to see on the other side: plain Jane with a few scratches!
P.S.: Corey I tried to push the Pink Bunny around this evening.
What a soft hearted husband you have.
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