How to Display an Antique Ceramic Pot Collection
A colorful antique pot collection can liven up any corner of your house. Whether it's Fiesta or Bückeberg, antique pottery can be displayed in almost any part of your home with success. The key to creating a lovely display is placing the right pottery in the right area of your home. Your collection can be a unifying decorating element that ties several rooms in your home together.
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Things You'll Need
- Antique ceramic pots
- Wooden crates
- Tablecloths
- Candles and candle holders
- Old books
- Antique medicine jars
- Old advertisements
- Dried flowers
- Antique cabinets
Instructions
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Creating a Display
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Decide if you want to display your antique ceramic pots in different parts of the house or together as a single collection.
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Determine a theme that pulls several of your pieces together in a unified group.
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Think about the rooms and surfaces of your home, and relate them to the types of pottery you own.
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Determine what other types of antiques you have that can be used in a thematic display.
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Place pottery in a case with sturdy display shelves or an antique cabinet if you decide to keep your collection together.
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Buy old wooden milk crates or soda crates to use as platforms for the pots. Position them so the tallest crates are in the back.
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Use some of the pots as bookends in an area of your library, where you keep old books. These pots look especially nice with old leather or faux leather bound books.
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Set up a display with old medicine jars in the corner of your bathroom, on a window, or in a recessed corner of the tub.
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Add antique linen hand towels and dried flowers.
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Place pieces of product-specific pottery on your fireplace mantle with framed vintage advertisements. This works really well if you can find the corresponding advertisement.
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Create a traditional hearth by placing heat resistant pottery and cast iron cooking pieces on the "step" of your fireplace hearth.
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Add antique cooking utensils tied with calico ribbon and pumpkins.
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Place antique pottery in an old pie safe with ceramic pie holders, a collection of colorful pie birds, old spice tins, and antique mixing utensils.
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Create a table display by placing your antique pots on a gingham tablecloth.
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Add dried tricolor corn cobs, scented candles in holders, and rolls of silverware tied in matching table napkins.
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Tips & Warnings
Country chic is in, and antique ceramic pottery lends itself to this look particularly when placed with the right accessories.
When looking for old pieces like a pie safe, search for pieces that have been white washed or have peeling paint. If you want to get really specific, research the era you're trying to recreate. For example, if a pot comes from the 1800s, see if you can find pieces from that time as well.
Fiesta style pottery plates go well in a dinner table display.
Be sure to use sturdy display materials that will protect and hold the weight of the pots.
