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Article: Practical Ceramic Objects Are Now Displayed as Art
- Article from:
- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- June 19, 1994
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CopyrightCopyright 1994 Chicago Sun-Times. (Hide copyright information)
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Would you pay more than a thousand dollars for an air freshener?
Or bid $10,000 for a slightly damaged Staffordshire pottery
coffeepot?
Other people have, but before you go running to the cupboard,
realize these aren't your everyday household items. The air
freshener actually is a rare pastille burner of Minton ironstone.
The more common burners in figural forms sell for only a few hundred
dollars; what made the Minton burner special was its fine chinoiserie
painting and elegant form.
Made in England in the early to mid-19th century, these ceramic
containers with detachable, perforated lids were used to burn
cassolette perfumes and freshen the air. The scents were usually
finely ...
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Article: Learn to scent out the real thing; antiques.(Features)
Daily Post (Liverpool, England);
March 15, 2008 ;
700+ words
... ... inventive Victorians came up with the pastille burner, a selection of which is illustrated ... would be pretty safe to assume that a pastille burner with a maker's mark on its base ... the first time. In those days the pastille burner would have stood where it could be ...
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