PLACE REPRESENTED: Burra, South Australia , Australia
ITEM: Wall Ornament
NOTES: Small hand painted (?) plate depicting the copper cliffs of Burra …which ended up being a very large copper mine. This is quite a beautiful small piece of individual art of a place which I hope still exists.
YEAR (APPROXIMATE): 1950s
MADE FROM: ceramic material
MADE IN: unknown
MANUFACTURER: unknown
DIMENSIONS: 11.5cm x 8.5cm
PLACE REPRESENTED: Perth, Western Australia , Australia
ITEM: Wall Ornament
NOTES: Now, this I like. Locally made with local materials (I assume). A microcosm of Perth’s flora (albeit dried and lacquered) stuck onto a piece of wood. Beautiful.
YEAR (APPROXIMATE): 1970s
MADE FROM: wood
MADE IN: Australia
MANUFACTURER: Croft Craft
DIMENSIONS: 25cm long x 8cm wide
PLACE REPRESENTED: Büsum , Germany
ITEM: Wall Ornament
NOTES: Büsum is a small town on the North Sea coast of Germany. Fishing is big … which is explains Saint Clement, patron saint of sailors and fishermen, with an anchor. Domestic tourism, to its health spa, is important also. It gained official Nordseebad (North Sea spa) status in 1837.
YEAR (APPROXIMATE): 1960s
MADE FROM: wood
MADE IN: unknown
MANUFACTURER: unknown
DIMENSIONS: 18cm diameter
PLACE REPRESENTED: Tirol , Austria
ITEM: Small wooden display plate.
NOTES: The region of Tirol (or Tyrol) exists in both Italy (Tirolo) and Austria (Tirol). The spelling indicates this is from the Austrian side but the wooden plate and rustic feel of it reminds me of Italian trinkets. I wonder if the flowers depicted are region specific or just random? These plates are everywhere in Europe and are clearly machine shopped, somewhere, before someone added whatever place name, decorative touches, and painting to them.
YEAR (APPROXIMATE): 1970s
MADE FROM: wood
MADE IN: unknown
MANUFACTURER: unknown
DIMENSIONS: 9.5cm diameter
PLACE REPRESENTED: Toronto , Canada
ITEM: Wall Ornament
NOTES: A cheap plastic horseshoe good luck piece withToronto depicted in its center. What is this trying to say? Do you need luck when you go to Toronto or do you take it with you when you leave?
YEAR (APPROXIMATE): 1990s
MADE FROM: plastic , steel
MADE IN: unknown
MANUFACTURER: unknown
DIMENSIONS: 13.5cm high x 11.5cm across
PLACE REPRESENTED: Konstanz , Germany
ITEM: Display Plate
NOTES: Konstanz is located at the western end of Lake Constance (Konstanz – get it?), on the river Rhine, in the south-west corner of Germany, bordering Switzerland. This plate is rustic and but simple art from the 60s. Well the plate certainly dates pre 1993 where one of the small towers to the harbour entrance (as seen in center of the plate) was replaced by the controversial statue Imperia by sculptor Peter Lenk.
YEAR (APPROXIMATE): 1960s
MADE FROM: wood
MADE IN: Germany (probably)
MANUFACTURER: unknown
DIMENSIONS: 18cm diameter
PLACE REPRESENTED: Istra, Croatia
ITEM: Wall Ornament
NOTES: A simple yet telling wall hanging depicting the Croatian area of Istra as well as commonly seen objects in the area, all relating to wine, food and agriculture … naturally enough.
The area is, also, commonly referred to as Istria which is the Italian word for the area so the “Istra” depicted is a statement of Croatian Slavic-ness.
The Goat symbol at the top is the shield of Croatian Istra.
Istra is the largest peninsula in the Adriatic Sea and is shared by three countries Croatia, Slovenia, and Italy tough the overwhelming majority of it is in Croatia.
YEAR (APPROXIMATE): 1994
MADE FROM: wood, steel.
MADE IN: Croatia
MANUFACTURER: Izvorni Istarski Suvenir Brcic, Visnjan, Croatia.
DIMENSIONS: 20cm tall, 15cm across
PLACE REPRESENTED: Arta Terme , Italy
ITEM: Wall Ornament
NOTES: A mass produced wooden artifact – insert town name at bottom.
Arta Terme is a province in far north western Italy which explains the slightly alpine look in the trinket. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arta_Terme
YEAR (APPROXIMATE): 1970s
MADE FROM: wood
MADE IN: unknown
MANUFACTURER: unknown
DIMENSIONS: 8cm across , 18cm high
PLACE REPRESENTED: Kresno , Indonesia
ITEM: Wall Ornament
NOTES: A relief on a a small picture stand for hanging or sitting.
YEAR (APPROXIMATE): 1990s
MADE FROM: wood , steel
MADE IN: unknown
MANUFACTURER: unknown
DIMENSIONS: 13cm high , 7cm across
PLACE REPRESENTED: Texas, USA
ITEM: Decorative Depiction
NOTES: A wooden Texas with a strip of Baker Barbed Wire attatched (a type of barbed wire which was patented in 1883). All hail the barbed wire? Free range advocates would not have been happy and no doubt gunplay resulted …
YEAR (APPROXIMATE): 1970s
MADE FROM: wood, steel
MADE IN: unknown
MANUFACTURER: unknown
DIMENSIONS: 12cm high, 11cm wide
