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Hand Painted Serving Charger, inspired by Celia Thaxter's Garden

Item Number
177
Estimated Value
75 USD
Sold
40 USD to lle31fdbe
Number of Bids
4  -  Bid History

Item Description

This handmade piece was inspired by Celia Thaxter's Garden on the Isles of Shoals.  The large serving charger was painted and fired by Pat DeGrandpre.

16" in diameter.

About Pat DeGrandpre:
In 2020, Pat created a business called DEG Designs , painting and firing Celia Thaxter themed tableware that was sold in museum shops. In 2002, she moved to Kittery Point and became involved in establishing Just Us Chickens Gallery, a local artists' co-op featuring art and craft, now going on 17 years.  

http://www.justuschickens.net/
https://www.facebook.com/justuschickensgallery

 

About Celia Thaxter:

The poet Celia Laighton Thaxter (1835-1894) grew up on the Isles of Shoals. Her father built a large hotel on Appledore Island that became a gathering place for literary and artistic greats of New England during the late 19th century. Celia's garden exists today much as it did more than a century ago, when writers like Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Sarah Orne Jewett, and artists William Morris Hunt and Childe Hassam drew inspiration from their visits to her Appledore home.  Her flowers served as a cutting garden for the family's resort hotel and muse for her acclaimed book, An Island Garden.  Source:  https://www.shoalsmarinelaboratory.org/celia-thaxters-garden