I started collecting majolica, a pottery particular to the 18th and 19th centuries, right out of college in the late 70s. I still love it today, although I have curbed my acquisitions because I think collections can be too much of a good thing. In my meanderings, I came across an old sales catalog from the late 1800s of a long-defunct pottery in Phoenixville, PA. This was one of the few potteries that created majolica in the US in the 19th century, whereas England and some European countries precluded these efforts here. This sales catalog is spectacular; I have taken the images (by the way, these have been hand colored!) and recreated each using a giclee process, which is a high resolution digital imaging process, and have printed each on archival quality water color paper. The resolution is so keen, you would think each to be an original water color rendering. I've included these in my shop on Etsy.
