ANTIQUE ROMANIAN TERRACOTTA BOWL The headrest also played a

The headrest also played a role in nuptial ceremonies

This vintage folding basket is constructed of thin slats of wood tapering inwards with delicately lacquered bamboo edges and handle

They would have likely been utilised in a household context

They were seen as expendable

A mid-century modern glass table lighter and ashtray with a chrome lighter insert

ANTIQUE ROMANIAN TERRACOTTA BOWL The headrest also played aIn many rural parts of Romania long ago, people used terracotta vessels for a multitude of everyday uses. This antique terracotta bowl was, perhaps surprisingly, once used as a casserole dish. Used to prepare and cook meals in such as meat stews, which included rabbit or other hunted game layered between varying strata of vegetables, this dish would have been then covered either with more of a heat resistant starch like potato or with a cloth dipped