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I've seen this pottery offered through an online shopping network for a few years.
Hosts would rave . . . customers would call in and rave. Even though I never saw a piece in real life, there was an alluring charm to this distinctly recognizable style that's offered in several unique, but complimentary with each other, patterns.
Located in Williamsburg Square, I visited this shop today. After seeing the real thing with my own eyes---it is so much prettier than a TV or computer screen can lead one to imagine. I'm not at all surprised that this charming Polish ware is a favorite collectible.
With all pieces easily available to pick up and closely admire, they're showcased on dining tables, other wood furniture, and open display cases. Additionally, scores of this delightful pottery are stacked by pattern and style on deep shelving along a wall, and on free-standing etageres. With plates and bowls in many sizes, drinking cups, vases . . . I can see these pieces fitting very well into so many different interior styles---country, traditional, cottage, shabby-chic, even sleek ultra-modern and industrial. There's a clear "artistic" quality to this colorful, small-patterned, smoothly-glazed pottery---whether any piece is placed on a weathered oak table top, or one of their larger deep bowls on a stainless steel
coffee table.
I didn't know anything about this shop. It was at Gifts Unlimited that I saw a little adorable bowl filled with complimentary candies on their counter. A small card inside said it was "Polish Ware"---ah!...the one from TV---and welcomed visitors to their shop next door. If not for that little bowl, I'd never know about this "find". And it is. Pretty, unique, and affordable---around $20-25.00 and up. This is definitely added to my "Shops for Gifts" list.
After browsing just a couple of minutes in their modestly-sized well-lit showroom, a woman suddenly appears, apologizing for not hearing me enter. "So pretty." I told her. She smiled. "You make them all back there, right?" I pointed to the rear of the store. "Oh, no! They're all made in Poland." I smiled. She giggled.
Will probably return for a gorgeous bowl that I don't really need, but keep picturing on my kitchen counter. I told this friendly, very helpful woman that it would be perfect with fruit inside. Her head quickly turned to look at me. She said it was a mixing bowl...that I have to use it for mixing. "Someone wanted a piece for displaying." she said. "I told her that if she wasn't going to use it for baking, I couldn't sell it to her." We both laughed.
Some discontinued patterns have been discounted. Other regular-priced may be as much as 20% off. A cute little shop filled and stacked to ceiling with charm---and staffed by it, too.
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