Until yesterday afternoon, this was what the wall adjacent to my front door looked like (well, not exactly like this because this photo is several years old but the arrangement on the wall is just the same):
I found the trio of antique oyster plates
back in 2009
at a thrift store. I seriously love these plates even though I've never eaten an oyster in my life (unless you count
Rocky Mountain Oysters--those I have eaten!) They have an awesome scowly Neptune face at the bottom and then mermaids around the sides. I looked high and low for the fourth plate but never
found it, though it all worked out in the end because I was able to use
the three plates in a nice symmetrical arrangement.
The mirror in the middle of the wall arrangement was an early thrift find when we'd just moved into this house nine years ago. The small silhouettes are actually John Derian coasters from Target that I have stuck with poster putty to some of the saucers from my wedding china.
Yesterday afternoon I was in the kitchen when I heard an almighty crash from the front room, and walked in to find this:
Somehow the mirror came off the wall and took out an adjacent oyster plate on its way to the ground. The plate shattered into a zillion pieces and the corner of the mirror made a nice series of gouges and paint marks on my wood floor. Boo!
I'm bummed to lose one of my pretty oyster plates and now my nice symmetrical arrangement is toast too. I suppose I could move the top center plate over to the side and find something new to fill its space, and I may just do that for a while but I think actually that I might be ready for a change! I'm bored with that mirror and I wouldn't at all be opposed to sending it right back to the thrift store--it has been nearly nine years, after all! I bought a
new chair last weekend at World Market so I'm in the mood to switch things up a bit. I love a new decorating challenge so maybe losing one of my pretty plates isn't such a bad thing, after all!
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ReplyDeleteIt always seems that our favorite thing is the thing that breaks! Those are great oyster plates. I have never eaten oysters OR Rocky Mountain Oysters (perish the thought...). But, those plates are awesome! Hope you work out a layout or a new look all together. That chair is gorgeous! ***Deleted that first comment because a whole bunch of computer jibberish showed up in the middle of it.
ReplyDelete...ooooh, not the oyster plate...and an awesome one too boot...do you know who made them...is there a makers mark on the back of any of them...The Neptune's Face...oh My...I Think you could find these, I am sure they will be costly if antique or vintage though...
ReplyDeleteOh no! These are really lovely, I don't think I've seen them on here before? I have a small collection of oyster plates myself. They are in a lot of antique stores on the coast (though none of mine are the super expensive kind.) I think the mirror should be banished to the thrift for the offense of breaking up the trio of plates! Can't see what you come up with to replace it.
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