Gary Pe🐦

Accidental antiques expert, unapologetic tree hugger and animal champion. Itinerant wanderer, occasional crooner.

[Gary Pe🐦 @GarLarPe]

I look at myself in the mirror. Every morning.

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when I saw the interlaced LR monogram on the bottom. The manganese glaze and sgraffito design applied while the wheel was turning, marks this as an early work from her Albion Mews studio. By Lucie Rie, the Grand Dame of British ceramics, who elevated the humble clay into fine art

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If I was to compile a list of my favourite finds over the years, this would sit near the top, the ultimate sleeper that sat forlornly atop a table in an outdoor flea market, bunched in with a group of 'lesser' ceramics. I wished upon a star when I picked it up, almost fell over

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Revisiting this favourite find from years ago by Gilbert Valentin, in light of a major retrospective in Nice. Long overshadowed by his more famous friends Picasso, Braque and Cocteau, but based on recent auction results, it looks like he's caught up!

https://t.co/sRlXNDqRar

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Each summer dawn brings forth a new trick, a kind of magic pulled before our eyes😎

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Birds, bees, butterflies, blooms....
and coffee
Is there a better way to start the day?
Nah😎

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From a flea market, this hand-thrown sgraffito pottery bowl, featuring a mythical aquatic beast amid carved fish scales. The dense clay, wire-cut base, natural glaze crazing, and copper-green splashes giving medieval Byzantine vibes. Another research project. Learning never stops

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'Incisi' bottle by Paolo Venini.
Hurrah indeed!

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The eyes..the eyes....
How could I resist?

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@ChtSutAntiques Leading to many impaired judgements (what bliss😉)

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At a pub, having just acquired from a shop across the road this Chinese turquoise monochrome vase with hidden carved decoration (anhua), and seal mark of Emperor Qianlong. Period, apocryphal, or modern copy?🤔
This area is an absolute minefield, but I love these mysteries!

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@iplauctioneer You're dating yourself Madders!😉

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Hiding in plain sight in this Danish flea market, an early William Moorcroft (1872-1945) vase for James McIntyre, where he transitioned from an art graduate into a master ceramicist, honing the foundational skills, and chemical mastery that defined his legacy. #Serendipity

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@CraigHughes123 Exotic Eastbourne! What are you doing awake?!⚽

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Where's everybody?

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Never been into tennis, but when a fellow pinoy displays this kind of prowess, suddenly I'm a fan🤩

[wta @WTA]

You can’t make this stuff up 🤯

Yes, Eala really did make that point!

#Wimbledon

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@RobinaHood13 Nope😔

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I think, I hope....
there's a sleeper in the midst. Any guesses?

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and compares favourably with one auctioned at Christie's. The sleeper has (perhaps) awakened

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So here it is, with better resolution-
A high quality, multi-faceted upright bouquet paperweight, displaying master-level craftsmanship from premium 19th century French glassmakers. Detailed and complex, I believe is from France's oldest glass manufacturer, Saint Louis, c1860

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Sleeper or a dud?

We shall see🤞....

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@Antony875328975 But which one?

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@oly050505 Glass yes, but not the spiral one