Modern decorating trends fully embrace filling wall space with items to augment traditional painting, prints and photos with three-dimensional art, textiles, ceramics and even jewelry. Functional decorative items appear in kitchens, studies and bathrooms adding texture, plays of shadow and light and dimensionality to otherwise plain surfaces. VA has an assortment of masks, carvings, brick tiles, chopsticks holders and other ceramics, textiles and even wood confection molds among other items to enhance any room. Check back for more to come.
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This kiln-fired medium size earthenware platter is a wheel made functional piece called African Red Slip (ARS). A category of ancient pottery used by those of high status for formal occasions to serve food, it was made in Roman-Empire production centers in the Roman-North-Africa province called Africa-Proconsularis. They were shipped everywhere along the same trade…
This antique hard wood mold was hung it in a kitchen, the center of activity of the Chinese home. Virtually all homes had a confection-mold to prepare sweetmeats made by placing pastry dough with various fillings in the mold and turning it over on a sheet to be baked. Many were used to make mooncakes…
Stone reliefs or mold made earthenware brick tiles were made for ancestor worship and to decorate doors and the walls of tombs, temples and other structures from the Han Dynasty onwards. As China expanded its trade along the Silk Roads in the Song dynasty, foreign artistic influences began to be seen in the expanded use…
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