Certainly consider clicking.
The upper right image is a painting, oil on canvas. I'll credit the artist when the Pizza is Won.
Everything else is photographs of some Stuff.
5 Slices, shallots, endives, shitake mushrooms:
What is the name of this Stuff?
What's famous/notorious about some of this Stuff?
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Ah!
I'm going to keep entering the PizzaQ until I collect.
This beautiful pottery is called Fiestaware. Manufactured now by the Homer Laughlin company, its claim to fame in its early days is its RADIOACTIVITY! Yes! Your dinner plates are RADIOACTIVE! The pigments and clay all contain trace amounts of uranium. It is beautiful stuff. I shudder every time I see the church I serve use the vintage, 75 year old pitchers. It can be quite collectible.
From the website:
Designed by Frederick Hurten Rhead in 1936, FIESTA® Dinnerware is now the most collected china in the United States and among the most collected china in the world. It has been featured on many popular TV programs, including ABC's Extreme Home Makeover and the Today Show. The product was discontinued in 1973 and reissued in 1986 with new contemporary colors to mark its 50th anniversary. Its unique Art Deco style has landed FIESTA® Dinnerware in the collections of numerous museums from the Smithsonian Institution to the Andy Warhol Museum.
okay i'm on the road and away from home so just call me Anonymous, BUT i wanted immediately to say YES! It indeed is the marvelously radioactive FIESTAWARE! You get the Pizza!
More about this Wonder Of The Invisible World, best appreciated with a Geiger Counter, when I get home.
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