There was an estate sale in the neighborhood this weekend. A woman died and had at least three generations of things stuffed into the place. We aren't sure about the family, other than the husband was in the Navy (our neighborhood was called Admiral Row at one point because of the order for Naval officers to live near the Naval Observatory, before it became the Vice President's home). HE passed away some time ago but she died just recently, at the grand old age of 93.
The couple traveled the world, as there were numerous things form Japan, Egypt, China, and Europe. Beautiful sterling silver, some Tiffany vases (oh to have the money to buy one!), and some fun knick-knacks.
We purchased a very sweet little clay milk jug along with a small china bowl and dish made by Jens Peter Dahl- Jensen.
Will spotted another lovely bowl with turquoise glaze on the inside and nice oriental pattern on the outside. It has a really interesting hallmark on the bottom but we have no idea how to research it.
He also spotted a really pretty copper pot that was marked as coming from Egypt. Both bowls are now holding orchids.
For cheap we got another cheese scoop that we think is plated silver and no one had an idea what it was used for. But*we* know.
We got a fun map of DC depicting Washington at the time of Mr. Lincoln's assassination. It has been rolled up for so long that I can't get a good photo-- you will have to wait until it framed.
But we think that the crowing glory of the day is the discovery of this rubbing of the dancing Apsara, which are nypmhs are spirits of the clouds and water in Buddhism and Hinduism. We saw them as decoration on the walls of the temples in Angkor Wat. We think that the it is a rubbing from some Southeast Asian temple-- the dancers are on onion paper.
It is a really clear rubbing so we are pleased.
The ladies are obviously Asian and the frame is from Naples, so who knows how old it is or from where these ladies hail from, but they are in our living room now.
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