Things of Beauty Passed

As many of you know, I help at estate sales now and then.  I came across this picture I took for a sale a few years ago. It started me thinking: there was a time when items like those pictured here were highly coveted.  Now they are lucky to find a home in a museum.  Some, like thid hand-painted pitcher and tureen, make a lovely still-life showing the grace and art of a way of life gone by.  Lovely to look at, delightful to hold, but they won't buy it, it's much to old.