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Art, the Girls, and Egg Cups, Part 4

March 21, 2023 at 9:43 am by Claudia

Second day of Spring! Fittingly, I happened to look outside yesterday afternoon and four robins landed in the yard. Two pairs. Hurrah! It seemed like they’d just arrived from somewhere else, but I might be reading into that. We watched them, entranced, as they looked for food, right on the very first day of Spring.

This morning is sunny. My mood, as of yesterday, is so much lighter. I’m sure some of that is due to the knowledge that Spring has arrived. It’s also warmer and sunnier and I know it isn’t a mid-winter fluke, but the harbinger of what’s to come. I was talking to a friend yesterday – it happened to be her birthday – and she said the same thing. She felt a lift in her spirits and her mood.

We moved the sheet music cabinet upstairs to the office yesterday. As impossible as it might seem, we managed to cram yet another item into that space. We switched it out with a table that was next to the overstuffed chair. The table went to the wall at the top of the stairs. While playing with that space, we moved the big framed poster that was on that wall downstairs to the gallery wall and hung the beautiful watercolor that had previously hung above the music cabinet in its place.

Eventually, we want to fill this whole wall with art and take advantage of those high, skylight-lit spaces.

Pippa urging Mei to go outside with her because it’s Spring.

Both girls had been wearing sweaters, so they needed a change of clothing. Mei is rocking her Crocs.

Egg cups, part 4:

1.   An adorable pig holding up an egg cup. Made in Japan.

2.  A goose pulling an egg cup. This one is beautifully painted. Made in Japan.

3.  Another Fanny Farmer egg cup. I have two of these – I believe they were a gift from a reader.  You can sort of see the words Fanny Farmer on the base (in brown.)

4.  And another favorite, this little girl in a bunny costume holding a polka dot egg. I am always smitten by this cup.

I’m off to start in on some more research.

Stay safe.

Happy Tuesday.

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Part 3: Egg Cups

March 20, 2023 at 8:59 am by Claudia

It’s sunny and it’s 28 degrees, but it will get into the 50s today. Even warmer in the coming days.

Happy first day of Spring!

More and more birds are singing every morning. I am going to keep my eyes open for the appearance of a robin. I suspect they’re already around. I just haven’t seen them.

The wind was relentless yesterday – a full 24 hours plus nonstop. Thankfully, today is much quieter.

I have a lot of dialect research to do today as I ended up just resting yesterday. But I’m feeling energetic today and ready to tackle pre-rehearsal prep.

Let’s see, who do we have here?

1.  A happy, smiley running bunny. That’s a pale blue color on the cup, it’s just hard to see in the morning light. Made in Japan.

2.  I love this one. The egg has a pearlescent luster glaze. That’s a mama duck and her baby. It’s beautifully done. Not sure, but I’m betting it’s made in Japan.

3.  Another ‘house’ egg cup with two little chicks playing on a teeter-totter (that’s what we called them in my neighborhood.) Charming little cup.

4.  A petite egg cup with a rabbit holding up the cup. It’s quite old and very heavy.

I haven’t really done a little egg cup tour in a couple of years and I’m enjoying the process of getting them out of the cubby and rediscovering how lovely they are. I took a quick gander at eBay yesterday. There are some figural egg cups there, but the pickings are slim. I don’t like new figural egg cups as a rule because they are clumsily made and don’t have the detail found on the vintage cups. There are some exceptions, but not many. True of a lot of things, right?

Time for another cup of coffee, a little work on the puzzle, and then – down to business.

Stay safe.

Happy Monday.

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Egg Cups, Part 2

March 19, 2023 at 9:18 am by Claudia

Not much sleep last night. We had an unexpected (at least, to me) very loud, strong wind all night long. I couldn’t get to sleep. Each time I was about to fall asleep, a big gust would wake me up. Then I woke up too early. Sigh. Anyway, Don just made me an extra strong cup of coffee because I have work to do today. Oh, and breakfast burritos!

By the way, we finished Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio  last night. It’s really extraordinary. We couldn’t get over how wonderful it was. It’s on Netflix and if you hang in there after watching it you can watch a 30 minute film about the making of the movie. That will blow your mind! The amount of detailed, precise work is beyond my comprehension!

More randomly chosen egg cups.

1.  Two rabbits carrying an egg. There are variations out there of this cup design. In fact, I have a smaller cup, also carried by rabbits.  This is from Japan.

2.  A beautifully painted cup with a chicken and a duck on either side of the cup. Also made in Japan. Beautifully painted and in great condition.

3.  One of my favorites and, if I remember correctly, one I bid on in the middle of the night because I was determined to win that particular auction. The rabbit as egg cup painter. He’s holding an easel and a brush, wearing a smock, and has decided to go with a grinning face on his subject. I cannot say enough how much I love this one.

4.  A bunny next to his egg cup house. A beautiful luster glaze on the house. I have several cups where the egg cup is a cottage-like home. This is one of the prettiest.

I got all of these early in my collecting days. They’re much, much harder to find these days. Thank goodness I started collecting when I did – I’m pretty sure it was 2002, not long after we moved east. Most of the great figural egg cups I have were found in those days. As you know, I prefer vintage, but I do have a few new cups because I like the design – maybe 5? The rest are vintage.

Stay safe.

Happy Sunday.

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