Bowled Over by Charlotte Rhead...
Aug. 8th, 2010 04:41 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
endlessraritiesA more upbeat post now. I'm currently watching The Normans, which is proving to be just as interesting and informative as I'd hoped it would be. Good old BBC! They still produce marvellous, authoritative documentaries on historical themes.
Before all the angst of last night, I watched Episode One of Curse of Fenric. It was an appropriate first choice for my Doctor Who DVD collection - it's just as good this time around. I think I'll get Battlefield next, then work backwards through all the McCoy episodes from there. Okay, it's not without its annoyances. I remembered as I watched the opening titles, how irritated I was when Sylvester McCoy's Doctor winks. And watching the way McCoy plays Doctor Who, I was amused to see that in terms of his mode of speech and his mannerisms, he bears an uncanny resemblance to the historian Dan Cruikshank!!
Now to the main subject of my post. It's time for more Charlotte Rhead!
I was given a new piece of Charlotte Rhead for my birthday last week. It was a bowl - my second Charlotte Rhead bowl, to be precise. The first was the first piece of Charlotte Rhead I ever acquired. It was cheap, because it's an unsigned piece produced by Crown Duchal. But I didn't buy it as an investment. I bought it because I liked it. Here it is - and my apologies for the bikes in the background. When there's eight bikes in the household, they're everywhere. Our noble racing steeds, like warhorses, are given the best accomodation. They don't quite eat at the table, but...
The new acquisition is more upmarket, in that it's a signed piece. The design on this one is Tarragona:-
Before all the angst of last night, I watched Episode One of Curse of Fenric. It was an appropriate first choice for my Doctor Who DVD collection - it's just as good this time around. I think I'll get Battlefield next, then work backwards through all the McCoy episodes from there. Okay, it's not without its annoyances. I remembered as I watched the opening titles, how irritated I was when Sylvester McCoy's Doctor winks. And watching the way McCoy plays Doctor Who, I was amused to see that in terms of his mode of speech and his mannerisms, he bears an uncanny resemblance to the historian Dan Cruikshank!!
Now to the main subject of my post. It's time for more Charlotte Rhead!
I was given a new piece of Charlotte Rhead for my birthday last week. It was a bowl - my second Charlotte Rhead bowl, to be precise. The first was the first piece of Charlotte Rhead I ever acquired. It was cheap, because it's an unsigned piece produced by Crown Duchal. But I didn't buy it as an investment. I bought it because I liked it. Here it is - and my apologies for the bikes in the background. When there's eight bikes in the household, they're everywhere. Our noble racing steeds, like warhorses, are given the best accomodation. They don't quite eat at the table, but...
The design on the bowl is Ankara, and here's a detail of the tube-lined decoration below. Unfortunately, you can't see the lustre in these photographs...
The new acquisition is more upmarket, in that it's a signed piece. The design on this one is Tarragona:-
I like the fact that the line circumnavigating the piece above the decorative panel is slightly imperfect.
I also splashed out on the essential handguide to Charlotte Rhead pottery, Collecting Rhead Pottery by Bernard Bumpus. Oooh!!! It's full of pretty pictures!! If I had infinite money and infinite space, I could fill an entire mansion with Charlotte Rhead pottery. And a whole lot of other things, besides... Unfortunately, I am a natural acquirer of all sorts of stuff...
I also splashed out on the essential handguide to Charlotte Rhead pottery, Collecting Rhead Pottery by Bernard Bumpus. Oooh!!! It's full of pretty pictures!! If I had infinite money and infinite space, I could fill an entire mansion with Charlotte Rhead pottery. And a whole lot of other things, besides... Unfortunately, I am a natural acquirer of all sorts of stuff...
