Here is one of the items on my mosaic website, I thought it was in keeping with yesterday's post. This is the text regarding its provenance:This exceptional vase was made by Herman Wedgwood in 1816 and graced Windsor Castle until 1819, when the afflicted monarch George III broke it in a fit of crankiness. With skill and perseverance the pieces were retrieved from the Royal china dump, brought to the United States, and reassembled.
"You can scarcely see the joins"
---HRH Queen Elizabeth the II
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Art piece and the story, both exceptional!
.... an dinside resides a genie, who when rubbed up the wronfg way will turn you into a packet of chocolate biscuits.
There's a Royal China Dump? Royal pottery shards are not allowed to mingle with commoner's pottery shards?
That's incredible!
grrl- In New York they say "If you believe that, I've got a bridge over here I can sell you" (in reference to the Brooklyn Bridge.
But bindu - it's true!
(Well, it should be)
Love this ( well, I would wouldn't I?).
This picture takes my breath away. The colors are incredible.
This is absolutely gorgeous. Why is it that I can only discover such beauty in PICTURES and never in person? : - (
wow, that is gorgeous!
sadly Wedgewood is one of the victims of the recession
:-[
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