Big Bowl - Les terres melées d'Apt

Small bowl with fluted pattern on the inside - in "les terres melées d'Apt" - an ancient ceramic technique and tradition from the small town Apt in Provence, where mixed colors of cl...

Serving plate in "les terres melées d'Apt" - an ancient ceramic technique and tradition from the small town Apt in Provence, where mixed colors of clay give the stunning and unique p...

Amazing set/collection of fabulously glazed ceramic tableware "Morvan Flammé" made in the 1960s in Morvan area in Burgundy. The set consists of 42 unique pieces in mint condition. On...

Exceptionally long and beautiful antique farm table with a pine wood table top and oak base.

Vintage French metal night stand or side table with the greatest patina in the raw metal. The night stand has one drawer and 2 shelves.

Beautiful pair of antique French bed side tables or nightstands with a brass base and with vivant colorful onyx table tops. One table comes with a lower shelf and one with a small ca...

Le Mani bowl by Marcela Cure Dimensions: W 42 x D 42 x H 15 cm Materials: Resin and Stone Composite The latest addition to our CORPOREA Collection is the Le Mani bowl. Given its...

This is a porcelain serving bowl made in south of Japan. It was made with style called Imari ware around 1900s in Meiji era. Dimensions: 25 x 25 x H10 cm Imari ware is a Western te...

This is an antique porcelain serving bowl. It is made with Oribe ware technique in Japan. This bowl was made in Edo era around 1850. Oribe ware (Oribe-yaki) i...

An uber-modern, midcentury dish. Standing on three balls and shaped like a tear drop, one end curves up. The upward side comes to a narrow slope while the other side is rounded. This dish has a fluid shape, seemingly mobile. These midcentury pieces were done as experimental, breaking away from the rigid idea of what sterling hollowware...

Broached monsters by Trent Jansen The vast majority of mainstream Australian mythology commonly used as a foundation for Australian identity is culturally exclusive. Both Indigenou...

Broached monsters by Trent Jansen The vast majority of mainstream Australian mythology commonly used as a foundation for Australian identity is culturally exclusive. Both Indigenous myths, including post-colonial myths and precolonial dreaming stories, and non-indigenous Australian myths, including the bush legend, ANZAC tradition and convict legend, focus on the historical role that the race of authorship has played in building the nation. However, a contemporary understanding of Australian history acknowledges the contribution of both Indigenous and non-indigenous Australians in forging the nation, and the national identity which accompanies it. Instead of perpetuating the same exclusive national myths, perhaps Australians should adopt a national mythology that acknowledges this inclusive understanding of Australian history, a mythology that unites Australians of many backgrounds under a shared Australian identity. In his book on Australia’s Folklore of Fear, Robert Holden explores pre-colonial ideas of Australia as a Great Southern Land – an imaginary landmass conjured up to counterbalance the continents in the northern hemisphere, as far removed as possible from Britain, the center of the Christian world (Holden, 2001). Holden speaks of Australia as an imaginary world, occupied by unimaginable creatures and monsters. Holden is commenting in part on the mythical creatures that originated in both British and Aboriginal Australian folklore and were shared by the Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal inhabitants of Sydney during the early years of colonisation. Stories of the yahoo, a creature that resembled a slender man, with long white straight hair, extraordinarily long arms and great talons (Unknown 1842), captured the imaginations of the new British settlers, and soon a fear of the yahoo became a common ground between Aboriginal people and British settlers. is fear of a gruesome and vicious creature gained its potency from the folkloric tales that were used to substantiate its existence. These tales were suitably vague, their lack of detail attributed to the fierce nature of these creatures and the assumption that no one had survived an encounter (Holden, Thomas et al. 2001). The yahoo “became one of the very few Aboriginal legends to be embraced by the Europeans” (Holden, Thomas et al. 2001, p16), providing a catalyst for conversation between individuals from these two culturally disparate societies and forming some personal links between these communities. Could creature myths like the yahoo once again form the foundation of a united national...