Cerreto Majolica Shaped Bird Bowl

Purple and green gilt porcelain flower and fruit compote. Eight sided and shaped botanical themed strikingly painted green, purple and gold serving dish ...

Set of six glass bowls with gilt rim. Six antique gilt-rimmed finger bowls/ice cream bowls/floating rose bowls to set at table. France, circa 1920s. D...

White shaped candy dish. Classic vintage Ginori Rococo paisley form shaped candy/serving dish. Italy mid-20th century. Dimensions: 9.5” W x 5” D x 2” H.

Small bird plate. Hand-painted small dish / vide-poche with birds and insects in a landscape with soft gold rim. Underglaze blue crown marks for Ludwigsbur...

Clipper ship etched glass bowl. Vintage clear glass bowl plate with convex curve down to bottom with underside etched with clipper ship. United State...

Italian floral bird Bergdorf Goodman vide poche. Pale celadon blue and vari-coloured sweet meat dish / vide poche hand painted for Bergdorf ‘s with chinoiserie bird and flowers. The ...

Mid-century Italian polished marble fruit bowl / centerpiece, circa 1980s. The bowl is in very good vintage condition and measures 11.5"W x 10"D x 3"H. It would make a great centerpi...

A French green glazed square bowl from the 19th century, with nicely weathered appearance. Created in France during the 19th century, this petite bowl feat...

Crystal bowl, Poland, 1960s. Dimensions: Height 12 cm, width 25 cm, depth 13 cm.              

A Storck & Sinsheimer, Hanau, Germany, c.1880, silver fruit bowl with elaborate baroque style repousse fruit motif panels between florid, pierced panels....

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...