Rare Beachcombing Curiosities - Green - Framed Beach Art

Framed Beach Wall Art - Glorious Greens - Sea Glass, Victorian Pottery, Driftwood, Flotsam and Jetsam

A treasure trove of some of my rarest and most favourite beach-combing finds. These special pieces have been thoughtfully arranged in clean, simple lines reminiscent of museum curiosity cabinets.

Each framed 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 greens, have been artfully arranged and preserved behind glass, a little beach-combing adventure for your wall!

I love the contrasting textures of "old" versus "new" and the harmony between manmade and natural elements, all unified by colour.

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

• an old padlock which has turned a beautiful shade of blue/green verdigris
• a fragment of green circuit board
• a piece of pottery with an unusual pattern of two trees
• a ceramic rose - this is possibly from a graveside decoration called an Immortelle - these were wreaths of ceramic flowers placed under a glass dome, popular during the Victorian period.
• a green sea button with sand still embedded in the holes
• a beautiful stem from a green sea glass bottle stopper
• a piece of pottery with a tiny shamrock
• an auger or turret shell
• an unusual shard of green swirly sea glass - possibly from decorative tableware
• an apple-green sea bead
• a tiny "sea-foam" sea glass heart
• a gnarled piece of weathered driftwood
• a chunky piece of pale green Vitrolite sea glass. This is identified by its ridged texture and was very strong glass used to make tiles in the 1930's.
• a thin piece of pottery with a lovely shiny, ridged green 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 rough Scottish seas have gently smoothed these fragments, but the patterns and colors remain vibrant, a testament to the craftsmanship 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 art comes in a white box frame, measuring 17.5cm square and can be hung on the wall or displayed freestanding on a shelf. (Item: 4331)