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Summary: There are a variety of shapes in majolica pottery; learn the various shapes and more in this free diy collectors video from an antiques dealer collection expert.
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Sue Shea Sue Shea has been dealing in antiques since 1979, and has her own shop, Shea Antiques, located in Shelburne Falls, MA. Her passion is early American 18th & 19... read more
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Questions & AnswersMajolica has a large range of shapes that you can buy. It comes in a shape of candle sticks, it comes in vases, this right here is a humidors in the shape of humidors, shapes in pitchers and plates, compos, it's endless the cups and saucers. You can buy very high relief figural designs with candle sticks attached to them you can see majolica in lamps. They use them in lamp bases, umbrella stands, large floor stands and the umbrella stands that are not uncommon you can find those. Plant stands with a base on them with a tops those are very common also in majolica so this compos to are very popular, cake plates you can find just in single plates, in vase forms you can find in majolica so there's a wide range in things that you can collect. This is a seaweed shell pattern which is really unusual, there's leaf patterns here there's one example here and a leaf pattern here in a smaller version. There's also these bowls that come in leaf patterns many different sizes in shapes so there's a lot to consider, there's a lot of different areas you can collect in majolica. One of the same kind or tableware there's tea sets that you can collect so there's a really large collection to choose from when you want to collect majolica.
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