Happy Thursday! Here is your exclusive first look at this week's Curator's Vault.
This is an edit for shelves, desks, and rooms with a point of view — natural-history art, old-world glass, portraiture, oriental porcelain, and objects that reward a closer look.
This Week’s Feature Pieces
Oriental Art This exceptional matching pair of vintage ceramics brings Hollywood Regency glamour and Chinoiserie texture together in one striking display. The ice-blue crackle-glazed pieces feature palm trees, butterflies and honeybees, with one tall lidded ginger jar and a matching scalloped cachepot planter. |
Murano Scavo Urn A soulful Italian post-war Murano art-glass urn, hand-blown using the Scavo technique to create a weathered, mineral-encrusted surface. It is accompanied by its original matching domed lid, with its honest historic fracture forming part of the piece’s story. |
Hammered Bookends A striking pair of hammered steel bookends with contrasting polished copper floral rosettes, inspired by Arts and Crafts metalwork. Their textured charcoal finish and hand-riveted details bring structure and historical character to a library or shelf. |
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If you missed it last week, the Vault now has a dedicated Antiques filter. Find it under Home Décor → Antiques. Antiques, 100+ years, deliberately reclassified, for collectors who know the difference between vintage and antique.
New This Week ✨
 Natural History: Original Trachinus Radiatus Hand-Coloured Fish Engraving |
 Natural History: Original Therapon Theraps Hand-Coloured Fish Engraving |
 Botanical Art: Decorative Country Décor, Framed Irises |
🏺 Recently Homed
 Rudolf Marloth & S. Gower |
 Pierre-Joseph Redouté |
 Fox-Hunting Reproduction |
From The Vault Journal
Chapter 5: Showing Up for Myself, Choosing Curation Over Algorithms
The work behind the work: building the loyalty programme, choosing long-term systems over the short-term thrill of the hunt, and learning that rest is part of the process.
Read Chapter 5 in The Vault Journal →
🔎 Missing a Piece — or Hunting a Treasure?
I source in two directions. Missing a CorningWare lid, plate, or pattern piece? Use the replacement request.
Looking for something beyond the catalogue — artwork, brass pretties, a particular maker, or one very specific treasure? Use the unlisted treasure request.
Custom sourcing is a considered service. If you submit a request, please do so with the intention of purchasing when I find the right piece. That commitment allows me to give your search the attention it deserves, and helps me focus on treasures with a clear place in a considered collection.
— Ina Lubbe, Purveyor of Vintage Treasure
Shift2ThriftVintage • Est. 2024 • Curated Vintage, South Africa • shift2thriftvintage.co.za
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