Vintage Vessels - Balustrade and Bitters Encyclopedia

Images from left to right - #1 Violet & Blue, #2 Orange with Earth Tones, #3 Sea Greens, #4 Textures with Chintz, #5 Mixed Metals, #6 Citrus with Scissors

Some purchase possessions for provenance, some for shapes, others for color. If you're a fan of the high and low like us, there's not a shapely container that catches your eye that can be passed by, regardless of it's origins.

One attribute that is hard to beat is age. Glazes, lusters and colors all get better as time goes by and pieces turn into old friends reminding one of life's experiences.

We gathered our old friends and placed them together to see how they would get along. Some played nice and some opted out.

We would like to invite you, our readers, to vote for your favorite Vintage Vessels still life.

All readers who vote will be entered to win a stunning hand painted oil painting by Dutch Touch Art Company from the collections below and a winner will be chosen at random. Any questions can be emailed to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it , one entry per person. You have until February 14th to enter.

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Dutch Touch Art Company, run by mother-daughter team Barbara von Schreiber and Shawn Silver, designs and imports decorative oil paintings. They carry a modern classic collection of hand-painted canvasses. These include original designs, as well as little-known works by early European Masters whose motifs they update for modern life. Dutch Touch paintings are as much at home in a modern loft as they would be in a New England country house.

After artist Abraham Mignon

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