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M. FORD CREECH ANTIQUES & FINE ARTS
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If your heart is in your dream
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For 6000 years, mankind has looked to the stars for myth, inspiration and direction.
Above - looking a bit like a sea dragon from a Walt Disney movie - is a "star-birth pillar" in the "Eagle Nebula". This incubator lies in the constellation Serpens - a mere 7,000 light-years away. Thousands of young (wishing) stars are embedded within the many finger-like protrusions - each fingertip a bit larger than our own solar system. Simply viewing such boggles the imagination, and seems to remove all shackles from "possible". We are left to wonder, wish, dream, and push at our limits of "possible"... each in our own way... and time.
This Christmas season, we bring you some of the "dreams" of our predecessors. Some shine, some twinkle, some glow - just like the heavens. And all, at one time, were seemingly "impossible".
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Earthly Things That Glow : "The Rich Woods" Most of the furniture we now take for granted was just evolving from dreams during the 18th century. From these dreams even everyday furnishings became fine graceful or stately forms with rich color and sensuous, tactile surfaces that beg to be touched. Often these early woods and finishes seem to glow from within. (From our 2013 Collection / Click images for details)
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Irish George II Carved Mahogany Tea Table Ireland, c1750 |
Fine George II Carved Cuban Mahogany Swing Leg Oval Table England, c1745, original gilt brass dolphin handle |
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Queen Anne Stained Burr Maple & Kingwood Traveling Bureau c1710, in the manner of Coxed & Wooster |
Fine George III Mahogany Book Caddy England, c1790 |
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George III Large Fruitwood Apple Form Tea Caddy England, c1790-1810, of large size |
George III Large Fruitwood Pear Form Tea Caddy England, c1790-1810, of large size and retaining original key |
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George I Walnut Veneered Diminutive Chest of Drawers England, c1720, original brasses and early surfaces |
George III Highly Figured Mahogany Serpentine Chest England, c1790, Original Dublin Style 2-Part Brasses |
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Early George III Diminutive Mahogany Chest with Brushing Slide & Blind Fretwork Panels, England, c1765 |
Early George III Diminutive Mahogany Chest of Drawers England, c1765, the original finish and rocaille brasses |
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William & Mary Walnut & Yewwood Caned Child's High Chair England, c1695 |
Fine George III Cuban Mahogany Reading Stand in the Georgian "Gothick" Manner, England, c1790-1810 |
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Early George III Brass-Bound Mahogany Cellaret on Stand England, c1760, original brass cooperage and handles, |
England, c1750, with early surfaces |
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George III Carved Bow Front Window Seat In the Hepplewhite Manner, England, c1780 |
George III Mahogany Writing Table England, c1770, satinwood stringing & fan corner brackets |
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Very Good & Rare Early George I Padouk Chest of Drawers England, c1725, original brasses and early surfaces; Padouk is a somewhat rare wood |
Fine George III Gonçalo Alves Serpentine Commode Of Hepplewhite Design, England, Irish-form brasses, c1780 |
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England, c1720, Of generous proportions With Colonial Williamsburg Collection acquisition label : 1936-291 |
George I Walnut Upholstered Side Chair England, c1715-20 Provenance : Colonial Williamsburg Collection |
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Fine
Pair of Early George III Acanthus-Carved |
Fine Mahogany Serpentine Chest of Drawers Late 18th Century, Probably New England Pine & Chestnut Secondaries |
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Good George II Mahogany Basin (Washing) Stand England, c1750, elegant proportion and design / 28.5" High Provenance : Apter-Frederick Ltd., London; Alfred Bullard, Philadelphia, with labels & receipt |
England or Ireland, c1815 / 31" High The toes scrolled and stippled to resemble rams' hours Provenance : Apter-Frederick Ltd., London, label & receipt |
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About 170 light-years from our Earth is the very brilliant "Tarantula Nebula" -
so called because its glowing filaments
resemble spider legs.
Tarantula is
the most
active "starburst" region among the Local Group of
galaxies that includes our own "Milky Way".
So massive and bright are Tarantula's stars that if it were as close to
Earth as even1500 light-years, it would cast shadows -
beneath your own feet, and in your own back yard....
"...Like a bolt out of the blue Fate steps in and sees you through When you wish upon a star Your dreams come true"
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May your Christmas Season be filled with at least one new wish - and one new dream. Who knows what might follow?
Millicent Ford Creech
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Things That "Shine" : "Ceramic and Glass"
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(Nebula Images by Hubble Space Telescope & NASA) (
"When You Wish Upon a Star", Leigh Harline & Ned Washington for Walt
Disney's "Pinocchio", 1940) |
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Home Accessories
Ceramics
Early Asian Ceramics
Fine Art
Furniture
Glassware
Silver |
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© Some images are copyrighted by their authors and used by permission. They appear here for your enjoyment only. Please do not reproduce without specific written permission. When You Wish Upon a Star, Your Dreams Come True I ; "The Rich Woods" |
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