Framed Beachcombing Curiosties - Mosaic Wall Art - Beautiful Blues - Sea Glass, Victorian Pottery, Sculpture, Shells

A treasure trove of some of my rarest and most favourite finds. These special pieces have been arranged in simple, clean lines. They remind me of curiosity cabinets you would find in a museum!

Each mosaic includes a blend of both man-made and natural items that have been washed ashore on the Fife beaches in Scotland including Victorian antique sea pottery, sea glass, driftwood, shells, pebbles and other found oddments! These precious fragments, collated in a spectrum of beautiful blues, have been artfully arranged and preserved behind glass, a little beach-combing adventure for your wall!

I love the contrast of textures, "old" versus "new", manmade and natural - all brought together using colour!

As with every beach find, each is unique and some of these will be very hard to part with. This collage includes:

• a ceramic head - one of my favourite ever finds and reminds me of Queen Victoria! (photo included of the day I found it on the beach)
• a large piece of rare blue 'flash' sea glass. Flash glass is a layer of white glass covered with a layer of pink - a cost effective way of producing coloured glass in the early 1900's
• a piece of pottery with what looks like a Viking longboat - again I've included a photo of the day I found it!
  
• half a ceramic bottle stopper - the kind that would be a swing-top with a wire going through it.
  
• various shells including a white cockle shell, a grey limpet and I think the top right piece is a section of shell that has been worn away by the sea.
  
• three other pieces of blue sea glass
• a tiny blue bead
  
• an unknown piece of white ceramic which could be the handle from a tea-cup.
  
• a piece of antique pottery featuring two flowers and a leaf pattern.
  
• a tiny fragment of the Willow pattern.

As you can tell, I feel quite passionate about these pieces. The excitement of finding a special piece, gifted by the sea, never quite leaves me so I hope you enjoy this assortment of beach-combing goodness!

All the pottery included in the mosaics are sea-worn ceramic fragments that wash up on the beautiful beaches in the East Neuk of Fife in Scotland. Much of the pottery dates back to the Victorian era, when ceramic factories threw their 'seconds' into the sea and locals used to cast their broken pottery into the waves for good luck! The pottery has been gently worn smooth by the rough Scottish seas but the patterns and colours remain vibrant, a testament to the manufacturing processes of the time. 

I have a range of these rare collections of beach finds in different colours. Each mosaic is priced individually based on the rarity and collectibility of the pieces included.

This original seaside art comes in a wooden box frame and measures 18cm square. Please choose your frame colour, either white wood or rustic washed wood (Item: 3025)