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Just want to add that certain Toyo pieces are quite sought after — check out solds on Toyo ikebana vases and keep an eye out for those funky forms.
I would have priced that unicorn higher, but it looks like you were in the existing range, so I wouldn’t beat yourself up about it.
Depending on the strength of the piece, it might be a sort of catchall (or, more elegantly, “vide poche”) for a dresser top or endtable. It could also just be a decor piece.
I’m not a quilting expert, but I believe this type of pattern is called “Grandmother’s Garden.” My eyes are too lousy for me to judge if it’s hand stitched and/or the possible age, although my gut just from what I can see is that it looks a bit like a mix of 50’s to about 70’s fabrics.
Ryanne, there are also some Bitossi vases that look somewhat similar. Aldo Londi did vases in that shape, and I found some pieces that are a smooth black with gold, but I didn’t find anything exactly the same.
If it’s something with a clearly stated brand or signature, or a vintage mass-produced item, I generally look it up just to see if eBay is already flooded with them. If it’s something like a cheapish ($6 or less, maybe) piece of art pottery or painting that has a great look and a scribbled signature, I usually just go with my gut about whether or not someone will want it as a decor item. If I can hunt down the signature later and it turns out to have more than simply decor value — bonus!
I think it turns a buyer off **more** to find out that their item has “specks” that couldn’t be seen in the photos. Just my two cents. More and better photos, higher prices, happier buyers.
This has been a great conversation to read. I really appreciate both perspectives and the overall positive tenor of the interaction. Thanks so much.
It’s got a bit of a Ingrid Atterberg for Upsala Ekeby vibe, and she definitely did a similar form, but I think those pieces are usually clearly marked.
My kids are totally into D&D… and my son started a D&D club at his middle school. They play whatever the newest edition is, but I’m still stuck back in the late 1970’s/early 1980’s, with the paperbound modules. I used to buy them just to read (although I played as well.)
I’m seeing junk drawer lots with “unsearched, untested” in the title. I don’t buy it. I don’t trust people that far.
That said, selling a “junk drawer” listing is something I’d be willing to try with some of the broken costume jewelry I have from my friends’ mother’s estate, or by slowly amassing smaller items from the dump, or some other low or no cost method.
As a general rule, I try to include information about what items are made out of in the body of the listing as well. There can definitely be a ‘needful things’ effect where people see what they WANT an item to be, rather than what it very clearly IS (this happens to me as well — I once bought a box of glass lantern slides thinking they were antique glass negatives, when obviously they weren’t negatives because they were positive images. But I *really wanted* them to be negatives!) — and stating the obvious can help obviate this problem.
