zApril showers bring May flowers... and then the deer eat them all! Or at least that's what happens around where I live. Here in NJ there are a lot of white tailed deer. My daughter and I love to look out into our back yard and watch these beautiful creatures. I have a slight love/hate relationship with them. I find them fascinating to watch, but hate that they eat everything in our yard. Just last week we counted 12 or 15 just off of our deck. We're excited for the fawns as things warm up.
Mottahedeh recently teamed up with Hutton Wilkinson to create a line of Tony Duquette inspired pieces. Two such pieces in the line are these majestic stags made of white porcelain but meant to look like basalt.
Basalt is actually a stone created from lava. It was used in the eighteenth century to make black porcelain and pottery. You can still find antiques today made from basalt. In fact, Mottahedeh used to make their own basalt stag. A piece I've always loved, but one we do not sell any longer... (seen below)
Our new stag is not exactly the same, but instead a wilder, tureen version. Unbound by chains and ready to leap off of your table, our Tony Duquette Stag Tureen by Mottahedeh can be seen two photographs up. (In both the larger tureen and small compote.) All accents are hand painted in 22k gold.