Misc. Hand-Painted Items

This picture came out a little blurry, so I may have to re-take it!

Suzanne collected MANY hand-painted items.  She bought most of them on eBay from various artists that painted them.  She thought they were “so cutesy” and she really must have gotten carried away for sure!  She became acquainted with a few of the artists and bid on many of their items so they would sell for more money.  Consequently, she won many of them…

I must admit, the artists are very good at their work.  They painted floral designs

Another Coffee Pot...

on any and everything they could get their hands on it seems.  Cake plates, old coffee pots, radios, old tables, Pyrex servers, suitcases,  serving trays, just to name a few items.  There are hundreds of items to fit anyone’s taste and budget and for almost any decor.  If you want to make your home look “country”, then some to the auction and take your pick!  They will definitely give your home that “country cottage” appeal!

I have to take all these items to the kitchen because that’s where the best light is.  I even went to the attic and brought more down.

 

This is a nice heavy metal coffee or tea pot.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Another nice heavy pot that could be used for coffee or tea.

A nice pair of metal creamer and sugar bowl.

Well-decoratd blue glass bowl.

large blue glass vase, 13 1/4" tall.

Another 13 1/4" tall vase

 

 

This blue vase with the Calla Lilies is 10 5/8" tall.

 

 

1 of 4 glass cake plates with the artists initials.

Some people refer to these designs as “shabby chic”, but it seems that some eBay sellers are kind of reluctant to use that term.  They do, however, try and use the two words in their listings, but not together.  It could be because Rachel Ashwell may kind of trademarked that name.

 

The 2nd of 4 cake plates by the same artist.

The 3rd of 4 cake plates...

And finally, the forth cake plate.

 

The idea of “re-claiming” old furniture, coffee and tea pots, fabric, and just about anything else became popular starting in the 1980′s in Great Britain and then in the 1990′s in America, especially on west coast.  Some people consider original shabby chic interiors a work of art in themselves.

 

Glass vase with lots of color.

A nice vase, 8 1/4" with tulips painted on it.

 

 

You can cook your casserole in the Pyrex bowl and then serve your guests in style!

 

 

If you have leftovers, you can send them to work in your hand-painted lunch box!

Small wooden box with hinged lid.

 

 

Here's another well decorated old coffee pot!

This nice server is also painted on the inside to match the lid.

 

 

One of several phones.

This is my favorite of all the servers. The top tier moves to the side.

 

 

One of two tall ashtrays.

Very nice large round Pyrex server.

 

 

This is a very nice server with a 2-qt. Pyrex bowl.

 

 

This is one of my favorites! It has a 2-qt. Anchor Hocking bowl and a spot to place a candle to keep food warm.

 

 

This is one of those "re-claimed" items. It used to be a covered enamel pan.

 

 

This appears to be made of cast iron and it measures 21 12 inches long.

 

The pan in the picture above is a very nice heavy cast iron server or perhaps a griddle…  The next three pictures show close-ups of the great detail.  This is another one of my favorites although I am not really into “cutesy” things like Suzanne was.

Close-up of the apples painted on the center of the above pan.

Strawberries painted on one side of the cast iron pan.

It looks like cherries painted on the other side of the cast iron pan.

This may be an ice bucket to keep wine chilled...

This covered metal pan doesn't have a glass bowl with it... Just a hair to small!

This is one of three hand-painted radios.

This radio, number 2 of 2, is more colorful!

This is the third of the "shabby" radios. I took this radio's picture 8 times before I came up with one that wasn't blurry!

I have to add a caption to every picture or they seem to run together.  Some even overlap and cover up other pictures if I don’t.  It is kind of difficult to come up with something to say without sounding corny!

This is an old wooden recipe box.

This is akey storage box, for crying out loud!

This is the inside of the box in the above picture.

Even a perfume perfume bottle has to get into the act!

This is a really nice old sewing box!

This is one of several toilet seats... I would say I have ran across at least 5.

I still have more pictures to add that I took today (3-10-2010), but there are still some VERY nice trays in boxes that I will have to take out.  There are many other misc. items that I may not take pictures of.  PLUS, there are several old tables that I will try to get on…  They all have something on them and I will have to unload them and take them to the kitchen…  lol.

More pictures added April 8, 2010!  I am adding these pictures while at the library, so I am not sure how this is going to work! 

 

Very nice large serving tray!

This is a footed platter...

Large oval serving tray.

Very nice large tray.