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Old enamel bread bin in Reseda green

SKU: 935

Old enamel bread bin in Reseda green

Old Reseda Green Enamel Bread bin. The inside is white. The enamel is offset at some places and painted over. However, it is still good to use. Very nice item for the rural kitchen. It can also serve as a storage container. 

  • Height: 16 cm. 
  • Length: 48 cm. 
  • Width: 24 cm. 

When one speaks of ‘Bric-a-Brac’ it is often used for old objects that are not valuable or old enough to pass for genuine antiques. In order to be considered antiques, an object must be at least 100 years old. Instead of Bric-a-Brac one also speaks about semi-antiques. These items do not have to be perfect. The weathered appearance gives it it’s true character and appearance. 

 

Bric-à-brac (origin French), first used in the Victorian era, refers to lesser objets d'art forming collections of curios, such as elaborately decorated teacups and small vases, compositions of feathers or wax flowers under glass domes, decorated eggshells, porcelain figurines, painted miniatures or photographs in stand-up frames, and so on.

In middle-class homes bric-à-brac was used as an ornament on mantelpieces, tables, and shelves, or was displayed in curio cabinets: sometimes these cabinets have glass doors to display the items within while protecting them from dust. Today, "bric-à-brac" refers to a selection of items of modest value, often sold in street markets and charity shops.

Edith Wharton and Ogden Codman, Jr., in The Decoration of Houses (1897), distinguished three gradations of quality in such "household ornaments": bric-à-brac, bibelots (trinkets) and objets d'art.

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