The 2009 Container Party was a great success with good friends, some old some new, and great objects from the container becoming new treasures for a new home. I have not gotten all of the images from the party ready for the blog, however I have the ones from the front of the shop here for you to see. The shop is divided into three rooms on the first floor. The first room was originally used as the display area for the bakery that was in the building from the time it was built in 1883 until the early 1940s. The back of the shop has glazed tile walls and housed the ovens for the bakery, and the middle room connects the other two spaces together. The first image shows a group of Dutch oil paintings displayed over a collection of carved stone spheres which were found in Belgium. Click on images to enlarge.
Carved stone planters found in Holland sharing the space with a brass lizard amongst the spheres.
Cast iron garden urn with an Angel Vine topiary joined by a pair of 19thc. European porcelain doves on marble bases.
This miniature porcelain dove seems right at home in the topiary.
English 18thc. gilt-wood mirror flanked by two early 20thc. oil paintings of Brugge, Belgium. The pair of sunburst mirrors to the right of the English mirror, are carved wood and date to the 1940s.
The Phalaenopsis Orchids are in a cast iron coal hod and have a wonderful pair of European zinc architectural finials on either side.
This is a close up of the 19thc. gilt-wood snake sconce that hung next to the oil painting of Brugge. It was one of my favorite things in this year’s container.
French Jielde Lamp behind a papier-mache table that is in front of a Korean tanzu chest.
Engraving of elements from the Borghese Palace in Rome with a pair of tole sconces on either side of it, hanging over a French marble top table.
European plaster casts of body “parts and pieces” displayed in a brass case at the shop.
The shop has a long 19thc. general store counter in the front room with a little more than 20 feet of bookcases behind it. I had the bookcases built during the renovation of the first floor of the building. The bookcases have proven invaluable for display. I enjoy creating vignettes of objects that might not normally be living together but somehow seem to work well together. This image shows some of the diversity of the objects that are competing for attention.
Memento mori skulls with a French gaming wheel and forged iron snakes from Europe.
Faux marbleized wood architectural element with memento mori skull carving from Europe, late 19thc.
Bookshelves with many faces, along with two pieces of Dutch children’s furniture.
More faces on doll head mold forms in this shelf display, with a few manikin hands thrown in for good measure.
The carved wooden hands on the left were used in European department stores for displaying gloves in the early 20thc. The lyre with horns carved wooden sculpture is very unusual.
Carved wooden fish sharing a shelf with a late 19thc articulated artist’s model above which hangs a European cut metal clay-pipe rack from the same period. The pipe holder depicts a gentleman falling backward trying to pull a fish out of the water while a woman on the other side is trying to catch the fish in a net. The craftsmanship in this piece is amazing.
This shelf contains a variety of religious objects from Europe including a carved wooden dove hanging above a 19thc. relief carved marble panel of an angel. Click on images to enlarge.
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