Some Sweet French

Wisteria,

 

Wisteria is blooming, those gnarly vines that appear to be lifeless, show their hidden truth. Life! Did you know it takes seven to fifteen years before Wisteria will bloom. Patience is waiting for wisteria.

 

 

 

Confiture jars

 

Two similar confiture jars. 1800s French lovely.

These would have been used for large yield fruit, such as, Grapes, strawberry, peach.. I love making jam especially Black cherry and Fig.

 

 

 

 

French soup tureen

 

A small stained soup tureen.

It is that patina that makes me do a double take.

 

 

Vellum book 1720

 

A large vellum book, the date on the inside is 1720s. Imagine that.

 

 

 

provencal painting

 

Two cypress trees.

An oil painting Yann found for my brocante shop.

 

XXX

 

Little things that sparked my day.



Comments

9 responses to “Some Sweet French”

  1. Diogenes

    Ah Wisteria. One of my very favorites! Thanks for sharing that picture.
    Longwood Gardens outside Philadelphia has an extensive wisteria garden (though I haven’t been in years):
    https://longwoodgardens.org/gardens/wisteria-garden
    and a long wisteria trellis:
    https://www.google.com/search?q=longwood+wisteria+trellis&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiCpf_90ovTAhXrlFQKHSDfA-AQ_AUIBygC&biw=1920&bih=947&dpr=1

  2. Jacklynn Lantry

    A sparkly day indeed. I went to the Isabella Stewart Gardner museum (Boston) on Sunday to see the nasturtium exhibit. The plants hang from the balustrades of the upper floors of the courtyard, they are 20 feet long. It is spectacular. Check it out:
    http://www.gardnermuseum.org/home

  3. Those would spark my day too. Oh wisteria! Love it! The soup tureen is lovely.

  4. Our French Oasis

    Love the tureen and also the jars, their shape has changed so little in nearly two centuries. The wisteria is blooming abundantly here, it looks utterly fantastic.

  5. Taste of France

    Everything is blooming! Wisteria, irises, lilacs, even some poppies. Flowers everywhere you look.

  6. Carol Marshall

    Hi Cory, letting you know that the painting that I ordered from you arrived . Loveing it. Sincerely, Carol Marshall

  7. Love the soup tureen. Will it be going into the shop?

  8. Perhaps it’s time for Corey to call for more soup recipes from T-I-C followers, to add to the collection assembled a few years ago. Hint! Hint!

  9. muffet@pacbell.net

    Ahh, wisteria is such a beautiful flower. When my friend, Karen, and I went to Paris (gasp) 15 years ago, we visited Monet’s home. She poked the lens of her camera through locked iron gate and got a lovely photo of wisteria growing in the backyard,
    A most memorable trip for us, which incl. now, my late husband, he said he wanted the job of the man in the boat, picking up the fallen leaves daily from the lily pond…

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