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Gary Pe🐦

@GarLarPe

Accidental antiques expert, unapologetic tree hugger and animal champion. Itinerant wanderer, occasional crooner.

 The road less traveled
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Joined February 2016
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I look at myself in the mirror. Every morning.
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#DogsOnTheTrain😊
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Celebrating my most recent purchase with a pint at the Wetherspoon around the corner from where I bought it. Yes, it's lost its stopper, but bears all the hallmarks of a Qianlong cloisonne enamel snuff bottle from the Imperial Palace workshops, c1780 #SleeperAlert
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Imagine it with it's original stopper. I think it holds it's own against an authenticated example sold at Christie's
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Always check your trousers pockets before washing. No, I have no idea how this got there😉
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Possible sleeper alert- Chinese dish in a very restrained famille rose palette with very rare, sought after marks, that of Hongxian, the very last Chinese emperor who reigned for 83 days before abdicating, but continued on as the first formal president of the Chinese republic🧐
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A struggle to get good drivers these days😉
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Kuba-Ndengese friction oracle, 19th/20thC. Most are zoomorphic, those with human heads are absolute rarities, prestige objects held in museums and very rarely come to market. When I saw this lying on a shelf in a Danish flea market, my heart skipped a few beats. A eureka moment
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I will always love you
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It may be faux Versailles, but still a fab setting for £1.89 coffee, ad libitum. Let them eat cake, but let me drink unlimited coffee. #Wetherspoon #LiverpoolStStn
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A grown man clinging on to his inner child put a smile on my face today. I remembered a much loved aunt and her words of advice to me when I was 12: "Never grow up" I never have🥳
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How could I resist?
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Today's star find was this Mughal Revival dish, c1880, of heavy gauge brass, extensively guillochéd then inlaid with thick silver and copper fashioned into arabesques and Arabic calligraphy, then finished with further chasing to the inlays on the central medallion. A masterwork
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An impromptu visit to Rochester, a city of great antiquity. What antiques lurk within it's precincts (apart from me)?
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An impromptu visit to Rochester, a city of great antiquity. What antiques lurk within it's precincts (apart from me)?
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Surviving 400 years under the sea surviving storms, sharks, pirates, and deep-sea pressure, only to end up sitting on a glass shelf in a charity shop priced at £2.50 with absolutely no takers. The disrespect is unreal, but the delight is mine☺️ #MingCeramics #ShipwreckCargo
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If I was to compile a list of my favourite finds over the years, this would sit near the top, the ultimate sleeper that sat forlornly atop a table in an outdoor flea market, bunched in with a group of 'lesser' ceramics. I wished upon a star when I picked it up, almost fell over
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when I saw the interlaced LR monogram on the bottom. The manganese glaze and sgraffito design applied while the wheel was turning, marks this as an early work from her Albion Mews studio. By Lucie Rie, the Grand Dame of British ceramics, who elevated the humble clay into fine art
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Revisiting this favourite find from years ago by Gilbert Valentin, in light of a major retrospective in Nice. Long overshadowed by his more famous friends Picasso, Braque and Cocteau, but based on recent auction results, it looks like he's caught up! riviera-buzz.com/lilette-et-…
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Each summer dawn brings forth a new trick, a kind of magic pulled before our eyes😎
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Birds, bees, butterflies, blooms.... and coffee Is there a better way to start the day? Nah😎
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From a flea market, this hand-thrown sgraffito pottery bowl, featuring a mythical aquatic beast amid carved fish scales. The dense clay, wire-cut base, natural glaze crazing, and copper-green splashes giving medieval Byzantine vibes. Another research project. Learning never stops
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